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Summary: very good..
Review: as the previous reviewer notes.. there are some design pitfalls (like the equations in the front cover).... but these flaws do not effect study at allvery thorough treatment as for floyd.. i have his Electronics Fundamentals: cccts, devices and appli. book.. and it isn't thorough.. i.e, for transistors biasing.. it only covers Voltage DIvider bias.. and only on the surface... wat about TSEB, Basebias, the feeback biases.. etc.????
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Summary: Great Book For Students or Pros in the electronics field.
Review: I am currently a student at Queensborough Community College in Bayside, NY. It explains electronic theory in detail. You get exactly what you need to know and a heck of a lot of other topics (with examples) that are high tech. I recommend this book to anyone interested in studying electronics.
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Summary: VERY PRACTICAL, GET TO THE SUBJECT VERY FAST
Review: I had the 5th edition in college and bought the 7th edition for work and it helped me a lot in Transistors circuits design. It is easy to read and it doesn't give you too much theory that is sometimes confusing. Lots of example and even how to interpret Datasheets. A must have in you library.
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Summary: Quite good book for basic-intermediate electronic students
Review: I have the sixth edition of this book,and i think that althought is not the best book of the world is quite good book.You must learn about basic electricity first, a book like "basic electricity" by Nooger Van Valkenburgh is a very good one.You must know the Ohm law,Kirchhoff laws,simplify pasive circuits ( serie circuits,parallel circuits and complex circuits,what is a capacitor a inductance, thevenin's theorem and other things like that) The content of the book is based on the semiconductor components.The book explains what a diode is,how it works,the reason of his function,his characteristics,and many application circuits (How to convert ac current to dccurrent, how to change the level of dc voltage of a wave,etc);the book also explains what a transistor is and his apllications(amplifiers, an element for do digital circuits and the base of electronics),the book tells you how to polarizate a transistor,how amplifies and his models,and many circuits.Finally the book tells you what an operational amplifier is,power amplifiers,oscillator circuits(a circuit that converts dc current to ac current) and other control power dispositives. The book also have many problems,some illustrations,and a basic course of PSpice( a program for simulate electronic circuits).
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Summary: Quite good book for basic-intermediate electronic students
Review: I have the sixth edition of this book,and i think that althought is not the best book of the world is quite good book.You must learn about basic electricity first, a book like "basic electricity" by Nooger Van Valkenburgh is a very good one.You must know the Ohm law,Kirchhoff laws,simplify pasive circuits ( serie circuits,parallel circuits and complex circuits,what is a capacitor a inductance, thevenin's theorem and other things like that) The content of the book is based on the semiconductor components.The book explains what a diode is,how it works,the reason of his function,his characteristics,and many application circuits (How to convert ac current to dccurrent, how to change the level of dc voltage of a wave,etc);the book also explains what a transistor is and his apllications(amplifiers, an element for do digital circuits and the base of electronics),the book tells you how to polarizate a transistor,how amplifies and his models,and many circuits.Finally the book tells you what an operational amplifier is,power amplifiers,oscillator circuits(a circuit that converts dc current to ac current) and other control power dispositives. The book also have many problems,some illustrations,and a basic course of PSpice( a program for simulate electronic circuits).
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Summary: Simplistic and Error Prone...
Review: I used this book during my junior in college and was so helpful in my analysis about transistors, how to bias them and the authors explanation about the Small Signal Analysis in AC Amplification. This book is one of the best books books I read about design analysis and design simplification
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Summary: Helpful in Analyzing my Semiconductor Biasing
Review: I used this book during my junior in college and was so helpful in my analysis about transistors, how to bias them and the authors explanation about the Small Signal Analysis in AC Amplification. This book is one of the best books books I read about design analysis and design simplification
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Summary: Best way to understand the basics of devices theory
Review: I was a teacher of eletronic and I used this book to introduce the fundamentals of discret devices for 3 years. This book has a good and clear explanation of eletronics theory since junction construction until the elementary integrated circuit. I recomend this book for anyone that wont to rewiew the eletronics basics and for teachers to be use in technician and egeneering regular cource.
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Summary: The best to learn electronics.
Review: I'm An electronics eng. and this was the book that I used to learn the first concepts and circuits, it's easy to understand. If You wanna know what a transistor, tiristor, or op-amp is, and how do they work, this book is gonna tell you. I give it 4 stars because it has some mistakes in its edition. Some times it say NPN and the transistor is a PNP, and things like that.
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Summary: Very thorough; sometimes a bit confusing.
Review: The authors give an excellent description of non-linear circuit components. However, the technical terms used in this book are sometimes confusing for the average reader. It is difficult to understand if you have never been exposed to these types of circuits before.
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