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Why are physicists the electronics experts?
SerieZ:
My gut tells me that we see Industry experts more doing Webinars, Writing Articles, Books etc. and not really much on stack exchange answering basic (or exceedingly complicated!!) questions.
To me the whole Question from OP is way to open and feels like a Bait from a Physics Undergrad to tease his electronics buddy TBQH. :-DD
I doubt that was the intention tho.
dietert1:
Looking at engineering problems in an extended context including physical considerations can sometimes help to find answers. A physicist is privileged in that sense and many physicists like to teach others.
Regards, Dieter
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on August 21, 2020, 01:57:03 pm ---I suspect that it's either just a random occurrence; or perhaps that among those who work with electronics, physicists are more likely to answer questions online than actual electronics experts.
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Yeah. I haven't noticed that myself.
I suppose that also depends on what you call a "physicist", and what kind of question you ask. If that's something more fundamental about electronics, then that can be true that many engineers may have a problem answering the question properly, whereas a physicist will (but in this case, you may also not really understand the answer.)
But if it's a typical "engineering" question, then I would just plain disagree with the above statement in general. People working in fundamental fields are (on average) a lot less able to deal with engineering/practical questions than engineers.
Of course, that may entirely depend on what kind of questions you consider and the kind of places you visit. Seriously, if you can't find places online where EEs would usually not be able to answer EE questions, but physicists would, then you're probably looking in the wrong places.
This very forum is, IMHO, the very example of the OP's statement being completely wrong in general.
Mattjd:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on August 21, 2020, 04:29:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on August 21, 2020, 01:57:03 pm ---I suspect that it's either just a random occurrence; or perhaps that among those who work with electronics, physicists are more likely to answer questions online than actual electronics experts.
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Yeah. I haven't noticed that myself.
I suppose that also depends on what you call a "physicist", and what kind of question you ask. If that's something more fundamental about electronics, then that can be true that many engineers may have a problem answering the question properly, whereas a physicist will (but in this case, you may also not really understand the answer.)
But if it's a typical "engineering" question, then I would just plain disagree with the above statement in general. People working in fundamental fields are (on average) a lot less able to deal with engineering/practical questions than engineers.
Of course, that may entirely depend on what kind of questions you consider and the kind of places you visit. Seriously, if you can't find places online where EEs would usually not be able to answer EE questions, but physicists would, then you're probably looking in the wrong places.
This very forum is, IMHO, the very example of the OP's statement being completely wrong in general.
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I think on SO you are more likely to get some very heavy theoretical questions where deep knowledge of the math/physics being applied is required. Whereas on this forum you are more likely to get very general application type questions, or more like realization questions. I've found the members of this forum to be good at the application side of things i.e. general parts knowledge and how/where to use those parts. However the deep theory is lacking. From the deep circuit analysis/signal-processing/E&M questions there seems to be less members that can answer those questions but many people that can answer circuit realization type stuff using lots of personal anecdotes/heuristics.
I akin the comparison to say using AoE vs Linear & Nonlinear Circuit (Chua) to learn analog circuit theory. AoE will get you a very hands on experience and teach you real life parts along the way, with lots of heuristics. Chua's book on the other hand will give you deep theory seated in the mathematics and physics of the circuits.
Seekonk:
A lot of people in electronics are happy just to let things be as long as they work. If you want to know just how educated a person is in electronics, just ask a question about charging capacitors. At least someone in physics will look it up and give the right answer.
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