Electrical Engineering Iceberg
Conspiracy Theory / Pseudoscience

Freshman
Ohm's Law
Ground
AC vs. DC
Short/Open circuit
Resistor/Capacitor/Inductor
Series vs. Parallel Connections
Fuses and Circuit Breakers
LEDs
Arduino
Kirchhoff's Current/Voltage Laws
Nodal/Mesh Analysis
Delta/Wye Transform
You can get high from the solder smell
Hydraulic analogy
Magic Smoke
Resistor cube
Infinite resistor problem
Right hand rule gymnastics
Tellegen’s Theorem
Internal Resistance
Sophomore
Duality
Maxwell's equations
Diodes (Zener, Schottky)
BJTs and MOSFETS
Op-Amps
Logic Gates
Differential Equations (LRC)
Transformers
Reactive Power
Three Phase Power
Mains hum pickup (The oscilloscope is lying)
Bridge Balancing
Millman's Theorem
Reciprocity Theorem
Active and Passive Filters (Low-pass, High-pass, Band-pass)
P/N Theory
Gibbs Phenomenon
Ground loops
Mason’s Gain Formula
Two Capacitor Paradox
Total Internal Reflection
Junior
Laplace Transforms
Fourier Series and Fourier Transforms
Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem
Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) / Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)
Parasitic Capacitance and Inductance
Impedance Matching
Scattering Parameters (S-Parameters)
Cut-set and Tie-set Matrices
Modified Nodal Analysis
Peltier Effect
Hall Effect
Sziklai Pair
The Skin Effect & Copper Roughness
Shot Noise
Johnson-Nyquist Noise
Halt and Catch Fire
Hardware Description Languages (Verilog, VHDL)
Communication Protocols (UART, I2C, SPI)
Ziegler-Nichols
Symmetrical Components
Galvanic Skin Response
Thiele-Small Parameters
Senior
Tin Whiskers & The Galaxy IV Satellite
MONIAC (The Water Computer)
"Ground" is a Lie
The Smith Chart
Core Rope Memory (Weaving Software)
Origins of the 555 Timer
Zobel Network Design (Image Impedance)
Accidental Antennas
The "Dead Bug" Prototype
Bartlett’s Bisection Theorem
Ferranti Effect
Whistler (Radio)
Widlar Current Mirror
Non-Minimum Phase
Single-Wire Earth Return (SWER)
Latch-Ups
Metastability
Substitution Theorem
Bit flips from cosmic rays
Dijkstra/A on PCBs
Duck curve
Hodgkin-Huxley Model
Head-Related Transfer Functions
Master's Student
The "Black Magic" of RF Design
EEs invented AI
Extra Element Theorem
The FR-4 Fiberglass Weave Effect
Electromigration
Via stubs
The Nullor (Nullator-Norator Model)
The Adjoint Network Method
Rosen’s Star-Mesh Transformation
Everything is a 50-Ohm Transmission Line
Chua's Circuit
The Multipactor Effect
Jefimenko's Equations
The Goubau Line
The Einstein–de Haas Effect
Magic Tee & Rat-Race Coupler
YIG Sphere
Gunn Diode
Ferroresonance in Electricity Networks
Quadrature Booster
Compensation Theorem
Bode's Sensitivity Integral
H-infinity Loop-Shaping
The Viterbi Algorithm
Evanescent Waves
Geomagnetically Induced Currents
Four-Wave Mixing
EUV Lithography Mirror Alignment
PhD Student
Memistor
The Mark I Perceptron (1958)
Harmonic Stability
Heaviside’s Operational Calculus
Diakoptics
Setun Computer
Explosively Pumped Flux Compression Generator (EPFCG)
Vircator (Virtual Cathode Oscillator)
The Luxemburg–Gorky Effect
Snivet
Johnsen–Rahbek Effect
The Abraham–Minkowski Controversy
The Kondo Effect
Cat's-Whisker Detector
Delay-Line Memory
One-Instruction Set Computer (OISC)
Stochastic Computing
Therac-25 Race Condition
Maxwell’s Original 20 Equations
Photonic Bandgap Materials
Sliding Mode Control
Dirty Paper Coding
Corona discharge
BAN Channel Modeling
Slow Light
Thermoacoustic Refrigeration
Hot Carrier Injection
Tenured
Memristor
Bob Pease's Breadboards
The "More Magic" Switch
Philbrick K2-W
Poynting Vector Paradox
Barkhausen Effect
Optical Rectennas (Nantennas)
Casimir Effect Stiction in MEMS
Phantom Circuits
Dark Silicon
Negative Group Delay
Sneak Circuit Analysis
Non-Foster Circuits
Teflon Standoffs / Air Wiring
Avalanche Pulse Generators
Phoebus Cartel
HIDDEN_SSID / Government Backdoors in Silicon
Hardware trojans
Acid Decapsulation
Focused Ion Beam (FIB) Circuit Editing
Braess's Paradox
Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion (SPDC)
Kolmogorov Complexity
Zeno Behavior in Hybrid Systems
Optogenetics Circuit Equivalents
Random Telegraph Signal
IEEE Fellow
Heaviside's Missing Fourth Volume
Liénard–Wiechert Potentials
Abraham-Lorentz Force Paradox
Spark-Gap Transmitters communicating with the dead
Van Eck Phreaking
The Biefeld-Brown Effect
Time-Reversal Mirrors
Landauer's Principle
The Frey Effect
Project Sanguine / ELF Transmission
Duga Radar
Magnetic Monopoles
The Hutchison Effect
The Hum
The Great Seal Bug (The Thing)
Project MKUltra’s "Voice-to-Skull" (V2K) Technology
Row hammer
The Bekenstein Bound
Fractional-Order Control
Sonoluminescence
Professor Emeritus
Aharonov-Bohm Effect
Maxwell’s "Aether" Gears
Tesla's Earth Resonance
Advanced Retarded Potentials
Zero-Point Energy Suppression
Rydberg Atom Receivers
Point-Contact Transistor "Magic"
Project Rainbow
The Dielectric Void
The Saturn-Moon Matrix
Wheeler-Feynman Absorber Theory
Weber Electrodynamics
Electrons aren't real
The One-Electron Universe
Oliver Heaviside's Granite Furniture
Bremermann's Limit
Topological Photonics