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    9 months ago

    Electronics is a field that applies electricity and magnetism to make useful things.

    No, That’s electrical engineering.

    Electronics is specifically the study and application of devices whose properties are determined by the charge carriers themselves (the electrons), ie. band gap semiconductors.

    Whether it’s science (physics) or engineering (EE) depends on why you are doing whatever you are doing. Understand stuff? Science. Make stuff that does stuff? Engineering.

    Of course, there’s a lot of bleed and cross pollination on the bleeding edge. This is known as the science/technology feedback loop.