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Summary: Highly Recommended!
Review: Being a mechanical engineer by training and working in an automation environment, I found myself asking questions that electrical engineers take for granted. I called one of my professors and asked her for advice on a reference book that will bring me up to speed. She recommended this book and having used it at least 2-3 times a week since I recieved it, I consider it a great investment! While I agree with some of the previous reviewers remarks on the quality of the index, the judicious use of tabs, post-its and writing in the margins allows me to cope with this deficiency. The major impact this book has on my professional life is it allows me to ask an "intelligent" question to an electrical engineer which is focused to the task at hand. This is done without going thru peripheral theory and application explanations of which this book does an excellent job.
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Summary: One of two books that all electrical engineers should own.
Review: The Art of Electronis is THE definitive single reference book for electronis. It suggests the best transistors for given applications has most of the important equations in electronics, describes different filtering circuits etc. I use it like a dictionary and it is the single most used reference book I own.BTW the other book all electrical engineers should own is "Trouble Shooting Analog Circuits" by Robert Pease
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Summary: this is my bible
Review: I got this book when I was a freshman in high school. Im now 35yrs old and have wore this book out. I consider it my bible. I have a very large library that has many books that are more technical in nature, but I find myself digging in those books for hours searching for something only to find in H&H. This is the ONLY book I have ever had that can explain this stuff in an understandable simple form. If you can only afford one book this one should be it. out of the hundreds of books that I have this is the only one that the binding is falling apart from use.
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Summary: 15 Years old ... No, not me! but my Art of Electronics Book
Review: Some 15 years ago, knowledgeable a little about electronics and being a hobby, I received this book at Senior School (BSB, Belgium) in an extra curriculum activity, Electronics. It accompanied a lecturers notes and practical experiments on basic electronic circuits; Transistors, Opamps, 8085 uP design (68XXX uP today I believe in the latest edition). The Art of Electronics covered it all, and today I still use the book as a reference for analogue/digital designs. After having this book for some 15 years, I would recommend it to anyone who want's to study and lead a career into electronics (not just digital!). Yes, people say things are hard to find, but after 15 years you'll know exactly where everything is in the book and still use it!
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Summary: Be forewarned!
Review: The standard line is to call this book a "great reference". Well yes and no. It is a great reference in that there is tons and tons of practical stuff inside that you will have a hard time finding anywhere else. However, the problem is you will also have a hard time finding it in this book! The index is woefully incomplete; countless times I have gone searching in this book for information on a topic and come up empty handed, only to stumble upon what I was looking for months later, on a page that wasn't referenced in the index. The book is also something of a dichotomy in that it pretends to start from the beginning, with explanations of phasors and Ohm's law and simplistic stuff like that, but then it goes and starts using various circuit symbols without defining them. I swear there are symbols used in that book which aren't defined anywhere, I've checked. Then there's the fact that the book tends to have alot of "cookbook" stuff with little explanation of why a circuit does what it does. One would expect this in an engineering text, but one of the authors is physicist so I expected better. All in all I'd say you should buy the book but only use it in conjunction with a more coherent text.
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Summary: Must have for every hobbiest and pro
Review: This is the only book that I know of that deftly straddles the line between practical and theoretical knowledge of electronics. Readers learn to design original, practical circuits for use in the real world. The authors do not overload theory, but also guide the reader to thinking about the design process rather than blindly building cookbook circuits. A must have handbook for any serious hobbyist or professional.
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Summary: 10 years on and I'm still using it!
Review: Together with the "student manual" this book tought me more about electronics from the basics through to the 'serious stuff' than any course I took or book I read. Every paragraph is dripping with sensible explanations and show the rich experience of the authors. The excitement and freshness of the topic is maintained throughout, the breath and depth are astonishing (as another reviewer has also said), and the authors put the topics into their proper perspective. It was ten years between the 1st and 2nd editions: are we to be lucky enough to get a third one soon?
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Summary: Too much material in too little space
Review: Horowitz and Hill have accomplished an incredible feat, talking about so many things in a single volume. However, this also means certain circuits and concepts are not explained in enough detail.
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Summary: About Larry F's review . . .
Review: He says its not as good as it look and cites an error in the emitter follower section as his reason. He's wrong and, predictably, the authors are right. His claims to testing the circuit seem slightly fantastic . . . Larry may not have noticed that there was a 1K resistor connected to ground as the load, and a 1K resistor in between the emitter and -10V. Quick, obvious series voltage divider puts the emitter at -5V. If the base drops below this than the junction is reverse biased . . . yada yada yada. Hey Larry . . . pbbbbth! I gave it only four stars because I don't refer to it nearly as much as other texts, notably Franco's Design with Operational Amplifiers and Sedra/Smith's Microelectronic Circuits. I still like it alot.
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Summary: Don't leave home without it
Review: This book & spec sheets contain all the electronics information I have ever needed as a hobbyist. It is great for teaching rules of thumb, and an important aid in developing an intuitive feel for how a circuit is going to behave. My only suggestion for improving the book would be to include an appendix detailing why the bad circuits are bad -- it would be good to be able to check one's gut feelings about this against actual information. <script> happyFace(); </script>
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