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FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s electrical engineering if anything

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  • Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Electrical engineering is an application of electrical physics

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    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Site, but that’s like saying “writing is an application of language”. The profession of writing is immensely different from the profession of inventing or studying a language. And the profession of electrical engineering is substantially different from the profession of studying electrical phenomena. There’s certainly overlap but it’s different fields.

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• Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Electrics are a branch of physics

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  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So you’re saying Electronics is Electrics is Physics?

    In that case Biology is Chemistry is Physics and therefor Medical Doctors have degrees in Physics. If you feel like fighting me I will await you out back.

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    • Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      First of all, yes - Electromagnetics is a branch of physics. James Maxwell was a physicist.

      Second - Electromagnetics is not electronics. Electronics is a field that applies electricity and magnetism to make useful things.

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      • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah but Electromagnetics is the DEEP magic behind electronics.

        You could, if you wanted, use quantum mechanics and electromagnetic field theory to do circuit design. But unless you’re building quantum computers or doing simple circuit analysis and wanted a real challenge applying Kirchhoff’s Laws, there’s no need.

        So you can use the simplified electronics model where the current (and therefore primary charge carriers) is positive.

        Source: I am an electronics wizard engineer.

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      • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Electronics is a field that applies electricity and magnetism to make useful things.

        No, That’s electrical engineering.

        Electronics is specifically about devices whose properties are determined by the charge carriers themselves (the electrons or the electron holes), ie. band gap semiconductors.

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      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So then Bridge Diodes are not Physics.

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• Lucien@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I learned cursory electronics and circuits in my physics curriculum.

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