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Re:Ask HN: Can you recommend a book to learn basic electrica... by Jtsummers on Monday December 05, 2022 @04:38PM (#33872269)
When was that, out of curiosity? I was on the East Coast for middle school, we definitely covered some electronics basics including making simple circuits (and I figured out how to use switches and three-way switches to make logic circuits) and the basic math behind it, the class was called "physical science" (to contrast with life science which was a biology + ecology course the previous year). In Nevada for high school physics it was mostly about classical mechanics (motion) but we did a segment on electronics. All of this was in the 90s.
Re:Ask HN: Can you recommend a book to learn basic electrica... by skelpmargyar on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @05:16PM (#33901117)
High school was early 2010s. For high school I remember there is actually AP Physics 2 E&M now, but I know for a fact it's offered at very few schools compared to the other AP tests. Middle schools are much less standardized class-wise from what I can tell (even within regions) and even though mine was extremely math and science heavy we didn't cover any E&M unfortunately.