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The material covered in ELEC 216 was a little dry, but the text-book was excellent ("Serway", 5th-Ed.) and is definitely a keeper (there's a solutions guide available at the Camosun library - hint, hint). This course basically put some polish on the electro-magnetism concepts started in Physics 12 and 1st-year Physics. Now, however, you're applying your MATH 100, 101, and 200 calculus to it. I was a little ticked that we were expected to use some multi-variable calculus in this class when we hadn't even covered it in MATH 200 yet. They really could have coordinated the classes better, maybe by offering ELEC 216 in Term 2B... The final exam was brutal, with a lot of really sneaky questions on topics which we barely touched. But since our instructor wasn't the person who set the exam (a common occurrence in courses with multiple sections) I guess we weren't as prepared as we could have been. I recall most of the mech students had a rough time with this course. Through the rest of our degree, we rarely used the material taught in this course (except for ELEC 250). But overall, the course topics were of a good general-interest value, and the labs (though time-consuming) were really quite neat - we got to fool around with liquid nitrogen and superconductors and such... The lab equipment looked like it had been around for 40 years, so I imagine the labs themselves haven't changed much over the years. I have my labs available, and like I said above, a solutions manual should still be at the college - if there's a new edition out, the questions will be the same, but just out of order. |
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