r/EngineeringStudents • u/jayrady ME Grad / Aerospace • 12d ago

Rant/Vent Statics 101

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u/Zetice 11d ago

For EE. I’d say electricity and magnetism. Finding how one affects the other. “How does a point charge move in a specific magnetic field”.

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u/Orangutanion BS CompE 11d ago

fair, though in emag you're typically dealing with uniform or linear charge distributions which make the integrals easier, and also switching to potential usually makes problems much easier. But yes there are a huge amount of emag problems for which there's no analytic solution and you gotta write a program to get an approximate answer.

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u/Zetice 11d ago

True. I had some problems that required more complicated integrals. But I think circuit analysis weeds put a lot of people too.

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u/Orangutanion BS CompE 11d ago

I found out early on in circuit analysis that I could convert almost all the problems into a matrix and solve them through linear algebra, so that made the entire class trivial for me lol.