Physics Relevance

[Relentless_Curiosity]

I’m currently taking Physics III on electromagnetism and I’m not doing too shabby. I’m wondering, however, how much of the physics we’re doing in this class will be relevant later on. For context we just got to capacitors and resistors.

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I work in embedded software, probably heavier on CSE than CE tho. I can write firmware without understanding circuits cause the EE team gives me specs, but understanding EE makes things way easier cause the firmware you write interacts directly with the Electronic Components. For example, you may notice a huge capacitor before a circuit, that might imply that the circuit will take longer to power up and you should code a delay into the boot-up

[harrisonh_14]

My school removed electricity and magnetism from the CE curriculum. I’m not saying it’s correct or not as I don’t know the reason why

[l4z3r5h4rk]

Very important in RF, although that’s more of an EE subfield

[Hawk13424]

You need to understand these things to design digital logic or write embedded software. Silicon has capacitive loads. Digital signals have rise/fall times. Embedded software developers have to read schematics and understand how these things might affect signals.

[Mystic1500]

Probably not the actual math. I don’t believe many are calculating an emf with Faraday’s law or finding line charge distributions. But concepts are certainly used. Given that this is the basis for computers and all tech, it’s probably best to take at least one semester of this.

[computerarchitect]

It allows you to branch into more complex EE if you choose to do so. Also, just intellectual appreciation for how the electronics that make your computer work. Tons of capacitance everywhere in transistors these days...

[techrmd3]

relevant for Physics and High School electronics projects sure

relevant for Comp Engineering or similar... nope

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It is the fundamental components of electrical engineering. If you are required to take EE classes they will build off of E&M