Lec 1 | MIT 6.002 Circuits and Electronics, Spring 2007
Introduction and lumped abstraction View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/6-002S07 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at ...
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So, one question to ask ourselves is, what is engineering? How do we define, what is engineering? Well, the definition I like to use is one put forth by Steve Senturia, one of our professors who is now retired. He defined engineering to be the purposeful use of science. All right, so what is 6.002 about? So, 6.002 is a first course in engineering. And I like to view 6.002 as the gainful employment of Maxwell's equations. Many of you have seen Maxwell's equations before. Most of you should have. And they are hard stuff. 6.002 is all about teaching you how to simplify our lives, make things simple. So, if you can gainfully employ Maxwell's equations, gainfully employ the facts of nature to build very interesting systems. So let me show you how the transition is made. So, there's a...
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So, one question to ask ourselves is, what is engineering? How do we define, what is engineering? Well, the definition I like to use is one put forth by Steve Senturia, one of our professors who is now retired. He defined engineering to be the purposeful use of science. All right, so what is 6.002 about? So, 6.002 is a first course in engineering. And I like to view 6.002 as the gainful employment of Maxwell's equations. Many of you have seen Maxwell's equations before. Most of you should have. And they are hard stuff. 6.002 is all about teaching you how to simplify our lives, make things simple. So, if you can gainfully employ Maxwell's equations, gainfully employ the facts of nature to build very interesting systems. So let me show you how the transition is made. So, there's a...
