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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

I was talking about the second experiment for my second Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism lab class for the ninth week of the first term.

Some of my students are from the same technical high school I went to (or transferees from other engineering schools), so they were already familiar with the loop and node rules of relatively complex circuits.

The only thing I needed to clear up for them therefore was the convention we would be using for naming loops and nodes identified.

It also seemed somewhat of an anti-climax that after the build up those electrically-learned students have done for the topic, that we just ended with the instruction for them to use the system of equations in three variables (maybe even a three-by-three matrix) to determine the values of the unknown currents along each branch.

I hope it’s that easy for the other class when they take this experiment.

In the session of my second Engineering Drawing and Design class for the ninth week, they were still asked to draw the design of their houses just like with the first class. This time I even told them that since they had already learned the exercise topic from earlier that week, they should be providing exact measurements already before going to class.

There were jokes about no flat screen TVs provided in the appliances, and placing bathtubs beside beds. On my part I teased them that since they had already given me the maps to their homes in a previous exercise, I was admittedly going to be ransacking their homes with burglars, so they should provide safe combinations and prices of valuable furniture in their plate.

When one asked he was satisfied with their current house (which he was set to inherit) and couldn’t come up with a dream house, I asked him if there was anything he would change in it, such as guest quarters for all his friends (and teachers) or an indoor pool slash theater.

Session 1223 is taking up electrical concepts for the first time. Class dismissed.