Calculus

[Martin Czech]

:::I dropped electronics for the same reason.  One day the topic was
:::capacitors, so I raised my hand in class and asked why some caps were
:::polarized, what the differences between polarized and non-polarized caps
:::were, and why you would use one as opposed to the other.
:::
:::NO ANSWER.  the best I got out of him was, "polarized means it has a plus
:::and a minus".  Thats it.  I had to stay after class and annoy him for 10
:::minutes before I got that out of him...
:::
:::Once he started talking about voltage controlled voltage sources, current
:::controlled voltage sources, current controlled current sources, and voltage
:::controlled current sources, he completely lost me.  I get confused easily
:::when I cant apply the lessons to real life, when I cant pick up a thing and
:::play with it...
:::
:::Yet some of our electrical engineering graduates have never touched a
:::soldering iron.

This IS sinfull.

"We should never employ any engineer who has not soldered a lot of homebrew
circuits in his life"

analog engineering chief at Micronas AG


I must say that the intelectual quality of my math teachers and university professors
was great. Which does not say so much about their success to explain things...

The bad thing was, that physics students had only to do home exercises to pass,
we had to do these too, but only the be allowed for the 4 big math exams (five hours,
10 problems, in the big auditory, distance to next neighbour about 3 m....

Only 20-30% survived...


m.c.