ECE 126Electricity and Magnetism
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Last listed
- 1992–93
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1990–91 to 1992–93; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Electrostatics; electric flux and potential energy; dielectrics, capacitors and capacitance; flow of electric charge and resistance; Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws; magnetism; magnetic materials and circuits; Faraday's Law and inductance. Alternate weeks.
As printed in the 1990–91 to 1992–93 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Reviewed on UW Flow
21% liked it0% easy0% useful
From 14 ratings and 1 comment on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.
Nothing good to say about this course. Material was brutally difficult at times with no obvious direct application, CDT (computer driven tutorials) were abysmal. Saving grace was a very easy exam due to a very thorough review session run by one of the TAs.
Sep 2012 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this
Discussed on r/uwaterloo
2 posts and comments in 2 threads mention ECE 126, February 2011 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Fall 2023
What were the most challenging courses you have taken? 1 point, 13 comments
“I know math 145 is a hard one? What else?”
u/dbifsddswxxs: “out of all the core ECE courses 106 and 380 were the most challenging for me.”
u/dl9500: “ECE126 (now ECE106, Electromagnetism) really crushed a lot of my 1B class. From the sounds of it, that has not changed over all these years!”
Winter 2011
Computer Science or Software Engineering? 6 points, 26 comments
“I've applied to Waterloo for both, but I'm not sure which to take (I'm pretty sure I'll get into both programs). …”
u/Hawke54: “Hey ConnorEF, I'm in fourth year CS after switching from SE in 2A. I think either program is valid, but you have to know what you're getting into for SE. …”
u/joshinatorg: “… ECE126, Electromagnetic Calculus, was a balls-hard completely useless course. To date, it was the hardest course I've ever taken by a long shot. It alone is worth avoiding SE. With everything I said, SE is now a more balanced program than it used to be back when I was in it. …”
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1990–91 to 1992–93, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1990–91 to 1992–93 3 calendars
Electrostatics; electric flux and potential energy; dielectrics, capacitors and capacitance; flow of electric charge and resistance; Kirchhoff's voltage and current laws; magnetism; magnetic materials and circuits; Faraday's Law and inductance.
Alternate weeks.