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Recorded for posterity by Mark Pellegrini, UD ECE '04. "That's a crime" --Weile's response, after Mark told him he didn't have to take Field Theory II "I was the last American grad student" "Believe me, these are not constructed to torture you. They could be constructed to torture; that was the homework I gave to my grad students" "You can construct a loop of this type, and pass a current of one amp through it, hopefully without burning the building down" "You tell people to prove something and they freeze up. Must be undergraduate fear of math" "We're not talking about zapping the crap out of things. We're talking about normal electric fields" "You can take quantum mechanics, which is downright mysterious" "If you've taken [ELEG] 340, you know what I am talking about. If not, you have no idea. And it doesn't matter" "So we can define a wonderful quantity which we will never have any use for - the electron mobility" "Now the point is here, after all this garbage..." "Now let's get onto something that actually begins to matter" "To be blunt, this isn't always true. It's approximately true" ----Weile, on Ohm's law "In this class, we're dealing with electromagnetics, the Lord's thoughts. In [computer] architecture, there's a processor, RAM, etc because man thought there should be. You can't commune with the Lord" "I'll just write this down and we'll never speak of it again" "The next thing we want to talk about is almost equally uninteresting" "Why are we doing this? I'm not sure" "Maxwell's equations were pretty newfangled in 1905" --Weile, talking about how Einstein corrected Newton's Laws "The denser your cheat sheet, the lower your grade. I will not enforce this -- you will" --Weile's observation of cheat sheets and exam grades "And we have this thing called Poisson's equations, which is downright fishy to me" M. Pellegrini: (sarcastic) "Aww, Professor Weile, last day of field theory. I am so upset, whatever will I do?" Weile: I don't know Mark, this very well may not be your last day of Field Theory.
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