Basic Electricity: Complete Course, Volumes 1-5 in 1

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Summary: Listen here...
Review: Absolutely the best book I've found to explain electricity, in the most simplictic form. I'm a person who learns through visual diagrams and this book is chaulked full of easy to understand drawings. Each chapter ends with a review section to reiterate what you've learned and a self-test that follows. Excellent book!

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Summary: Perfect for any beginner!
Review: Absolutely the best book I've found to explain electricity, in the most simplictic form. I'm a person who learns through visual diagrams and this book is chaulked full of easy to understand drawings. Each chapter ends with a review section to reiterate what you've learned and a self-test that follows. Excellent book!

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Summary: It's all here....
Review: After 30 years of doing "other things" I decided to refresh my knowledge of electrical principles learned in the military. This book is excellent because it starts at the very beginning and builds, one concept on another, with ample photos and illustrations, to allow you to truly understand what you are reading. If you want to learn about electricity and don't want to go take a course to do it, this is the book...even if you don't know anything at all about the subject!

Rating:
Summary: It's all here....
Review: After 30 years of doing "other things" I decided to refresh my knowledge of electrical principles learned in the military. This book is excellent because it starts at the very beginning and builds, one concept on another, with ample photos and illustrations, to allow you to truly understand what you are reading. If you want to learn about electricity and don't want to go take a course to do it, this is the book...even if you don't know anything at all about the subject!

Rating:
Summary: It's all here....
Review: After 30 years of doing "other things" I decided to refresh my knowledge of electrical principles learned in the military. This book is excellent because it starts at the very beginning and builds, one concept on another, with ample photos and illustrations, to allow you to truly understand what you are reading. If you want to learn about electricity and don't want to go take a course to do it, this is the book...even if you don't know anything at all about the subject!

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Summary: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
Review: All these posts must be by people who didn't actually take the time to READ THE BOOK!!!!! All I have to say is that the direction of current flow shown in the diagrams is either wrong, or varies widely between conventional and electron theory. For example, on page I-41 they show electron theory current flow from a battery through a lamp in the right direction (negative to positive), but then later in the section discussing Ammeters pages I-95 through I-104 they consistently show current flow going in the WRONG DIRECTION. Obviously the person who did the diagrams was confused and no one did a good job checking their work. This is the kind of thing that is terribly confusing for a person trying to learn "BASIC ELECTRICITY" and is just plain sloppy. I want my money back!!!

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Summary: Learn the basics from this easy to understand book!
Review: Basic Electricity, by Van Valkenburgh, Nooger & Neville, Inc., has
taught three generations the fundamentals of electricity and
electronics technology. PROMPT Publications is proud to continue
this tradition with the release of the revised and completely updated
course edition of Basic Electricity. Originally published in five separate
volumes, now with this edition you get all five volumes in one book.

From a simplified explanation of the electronics to AC/DC machinery,
alternators, and other advanced topics, Basic Electricity is the complete
course for mastering the fundamentals of electricity.

This book provides a clear understanding of how electricity is
produced, measured, controlled, and used. A minimum of mathematics
is used for the direct explanations of primary cells, magnetism, Ohm's
law, capacitance, transformers, DC generators, AC motors, and other essential
topics.

Volume 1: Section information includes what electricity is,
conductors/insulators/semiconductors, electric charges, magnetism, current
flow, EMF, how electricity is produced and used, electromagnetism, how a
meter works, how current is measured, how voltage is measured, resistance,
and an introduction Ohm's law.

Volume 2: Section information includes electric circuits, Ohm's law, resistance,
DC series circuits, DC parallel circuits, DC series-parallel circuits,
electric power, Thevenin's and Norton's theorems, troubleshooting DC
circuits, and an introduction to alternating current.

Volume 3: Section information includes DC and AC electric
circuits, what alternating current is, AC meters, resistance in AC
circuits, inductance in DC and AC circuits, capacitance in DC and
AC circuits, and troubleshooting simple AC circuits.

Volume 4: Section information includes AC electric circuits, AC series
circuits, AC parallel circuits, AC complex circuits, transformers,
introductio

Rating:
Summary: Excellent coverage of all aspects of basic DC and AC.
Review: Great self-study guide for adults who need a thorough understanding of DC and AC. Originally published for the Navy in 1954 (the excellent drawings and illustrations all have the the campy look of that era), this is still one of the best texts I've ever seen on basic electricity. Highly recommended!

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Summary: Finally, a book written for 2004!
Review: I enjoy certain books, and positively despise most others.
The kind of technical books I hate are the kinds that instead of having plenty of graphical visual aids, greet you with hieroglyphics, like those checkmark division signs, and what not, upon opening to just about any page. I'm hesitant to turn pages in those books, as I fear awakening some long dead vengeful Pharaoh.

Seriously . . .

Basic Electricity, (by Nooger Van Valkenburgh) has motivated this, my first review.

It's an excellent book because it's been written 'down to my level'. When I'm finished with this book, I am confident that I will have some kind of foundation and become inspired to pursue some hobby type projects, which I had always felt would be at bay. Now, no book on Electricity would be complete without some theory and math, and this book has only so much of that, and much more of what you can visualize.

The way that the section on ac/dc motors is presented is an excellent example of what I like in well written (and illustrated) books.

Conclusion: Well over 600 pages of demonstratively written, straight-forward, and clearly illustrated study.

I look forward to coming across a similarly composed book on Electronics Projects.

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Summary: Foundation for the study and application of electical theory
Review: I first read volumes 1-5 ten years ago when I started working as an elevator technician. My copies are third time hand-me-downs of the original 1954 publication. These are without a doubt the most helpful books I have ever read on basic electrical theory. Each topic is clearly and concisely explained and forms a building block for further topics in the series. These books form the foundation of knowledge I use in everyday real world applications. The authors explain each principle with reference to real world examples to allow the reader to relate what they have read to what they have seen.