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Summary: VERY disappointing...
Review: I had real high hopes for this book. I waited salivating for a week for it to show up in the mail. Eagerly, I tore open the package & immediately began perusing through it, intent on getting a taste of what was within. As expected from my observation of the page count, there was a plethora of information at my fingertips, everything an individual could possibly surmise he/she might need to know on transistors, diodes, dividers, saturation, emitters, etc. But within minutes of glancing through, my heart sunk. There was just one thing that was holding me back from diving head first into the book beginning on page 1, that one thing was the fact that there were no color photographs, everything was a stark, brutal, dry, clipped black-&-white. There was no explaining of just what in the world electricity was & why it acted as it did. I've taken a physics course, & conceptually, I excel at it. I was anticipating an overview on the very thing that was the key point of this waste of paper. There was none. It SAID in the beginning that it would start off at a point that even an neophyte could follow. I have my own hypothesis on why the lowest rating available that can be given to a book is one & not a big fat 0: It's because that the majority of these authors, artists, editors, etc., have at least TRIED to get a point across. It ISN'T easy writing a book. Everybody deserves at least a single lonely star for the effort that is exhibited through the very book's existence. This just wasn't the book for me. Not for the highly restless, distractable, impatient person that I am. To get my attention, there must be something to spark interest. I have to say, the cover was real nice. It IS a HANDBOOK for the PRACTICING electrian, not for the just-curious-so-I'll-just-skim-through-it-to-achieve-a-better-understanding-of-the-topic person. Another one of this book's highlights is it's valiant attempt to teach the art of electronics w/o scaring people off w/ the heavy math. It also tries an intuitive approach, which is very nice, however it only succeeds 25% of the time. To get the most out of this book: 1) Do not have attention defecit disorder. 2) Have a clear understanding of algebra (how to work w/ imaginary numbers inparticular), trigonometry (conics, especially), & calculus. 3) Be patient. 4) Be anal retentive.
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Summary: Very useful
Review: This book is very useful, and has an intuitive approach. Excellent for beginners and intermediates.
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Summary: Great! but getting old.
Review: Wonderful book, but an updated version with newer devices is sorely neede
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Summary: I think there is a new editon for this book, other than 2nd
Review: Please let me now if you have a new edition, other the 2nd.Thanks Abdinasir
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Summary: No nonsense electronics, a must for those into electronics
Review: I bought this book for a class that was geared towards instrumentation and data aquisition. Although it does not go into deep analysis of circuits, it is good for understanding what certain electronic circuits do and how they should be built. Excellent for a beginners in electronics like myself.
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Summary: Excelent book for general electronic reference.
Review: This is by far one of the best overall books on electronic design. It concentrates on explaining how a circuit works without pages of equations. There are a few places, however, that I had wished that the book did include a few more equations in the explanation. This is not a major drawback. There are many books that deal with the equations, but very few explain what the equations really mean. Believe it or not, I think that I have learned more about electronic design by reading this book than in four years of Engineering School! It is impossible for any book to cover every issue in electronics, but this book comes close. I will reach for it, as a reference, before any other technical book that I have.
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Summary: The Art of write a Student Manual
Review: The Art of teach with fun & contundent style. For artists of electronics, or "open-mind", the better election.
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Summary: Practical hands on, a step above the BUG BOOK series
Review: Practical hands on, a step above the BUG BOOK series with lots of goodies in the way of real circuits and diagrams that are very easily understood.. True you'll run into 'OL Thevenin , but luckily the book is written so heavy math understanding is not needed.. Read this in 1990 and still refer to it , nice "book" ( i.e. manual to actually design and use circuits ) . I'm trying to locate his "Laboratory Manual" ( I like Z80's better than that Motorola stuff).
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Summary: Definitive Source for Electronics
Review: This is an all-around great book and reference tool for electronics. Being an extremely detailed book, it's not one that I would recommend for beginners, but it is still quite comprehensive (I'm only 16, and this book kept me interested from begining to end!)
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Summary: The best text on Electronic *design* available
Review: This book shows you what to do with your engineering degree. If you encountered it in school, then you already know what I mean. If you didn't, then this book will transform your education from a mass of unrelated facts into a working technical knowledge. Many other fine books exist to teach electronic circuit analysis, but this is should be your first and foremost reference on electronic design.
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