Yeah - there was a massive filtering of the students between the 1st year entry, and the second year at my Uni. Largely down to people unable to handle the (not terribly) complex maths at that stage.
I knew a number of folks in the first year who were very good at practical electronics, having come in from a technician side, but simply gave up due to the heavy maths load.
It got more complex when doing Control Theory, what with Laplace and Z transforms, freq domain analysis, and the apocryphal Poles and Zeros.
I knew a number of folks in the first year who were very good at practical electronics, having come in from a technician side, but simply gave up due to the heavy maths load.
It got more complex when doing Control Theory, what with Laplace and Z transforms, freq domain analysis, and the apocryphal Poles and Zeros.
Further culling ensued at that point.