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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Bridge Diodes current regulation are considered physics? I mean, yeah, but about as much as any other science field, right?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's electrical engineering if anything

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Electrical engineering is an application of electrical physics

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Electrics are a branch of physics

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

So you're saying Electronics is Electromagnetics 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

No, That’s electrical engineering.

Electronics is specifically the study and application of devices whose properties are determined by the charge carriers themselves (the electrons), ie. band gap semiconductors.

Whether it’s science (physics) or engineering (EE) depends on why you are doing whatever you are doing. Understand stuff? Science. Make stuff that does stuff? Engineering.

Of course, there’s a lot of bleed and cross pollination on the bleeding edge. This is known as the science/technology feedback loop.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So then Bridge Diodes are not Physics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Dude, I’m sitting right now in front of a building full of people that basically study PN junctions for a living. If I tell them diodes are not physics they will be very upset.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry to upset the analogue stereo repair shop but you're not exactly Stephen Hawkings, okay?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Right now I’m standing in front of the building, so I’m definitely not Stephen Hawkings. Also I’m not dead.

Also also, Hawkings was talented, but not a solid state physicist.

If you want to troll here, you need to up your physics game. At least pick a relevant dude from the scores of Nobel prize winners my discipline has brought forth in the last fifty years or so.

YOU ARE NOT RANDOM TV SCIENCE GUY I’VE HEARD OF doesn’t work here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I feel like "How dare you compare me to a paraplegic" sounded better in your head.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Any time you want to react to the substance of my comment I’m here.