The Art of Electronics - third Edition

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Important: Your credit card will NOT be charged when you start your free trial or if you cancel during the trial period. This is not to say that I felt AoE3 was lacking before this new book, but it’s certainly more complete with this included.

I was about the only student who checked it out in 2 years – I think one other student managed to check it out when I was forbidden to renew it for a week. When I was taking EE at university and resenting all the calculus they were stuffing down our throats, and wondering when all the good stuff would come … I was shocked and more than a little angry when i discovered that the Physics majors had this one electronics course where they got all the useful, applicable information in one term. The style of the book is that of an experienced engineer telling you all they know and emphasising what is important - rather than an academic / technical lecturer. AoE2 has circuit diagrams of photon counting circuits, how to wire a photomultiplier and how best to do spectroscopy on gamma rays.

Currently he is the Director of Electronics Engineering at the Rowland Institute for Science where he has designed some 250 electronic instruments. is particularly interesting, covering mechanical switches and relays, components that we sometimes forget have non-ideal characteristics. Literally the worst introduction to transistors I have ever seen, for the past few hours I have been trying to find something worst and it seems impossible. This book can be read as a story book from night stand, and I literally do read it before going to sleep. There is an abundance of warning, based on real-world experience, of the many traps that lie in wait for the practitioner of the electronic art … In spite of the analog bent, the digital information in this book is an excellent source for the analog engineer to get started using digital systems for the control of analog circuits.

While I’ll discuss some of the highlights of each chapter — but not an exhaustive list — keep in mind that this book reads a little differently than AoE3: it’s more engineering reference handbook and less textbook. It is an ideal first textbook on electronics for scientists and engineers and an indispensable reference for anyone, professional or amateur, who works with electronic circuits. Clear, direct, and well written with all the needed charts and drawings to illustrate needed concepts. Likewise, there are discussions of real-world resistors of various types, including digital potentiometers.quite often you'd start getting into the interesting shit, and there would be an annoying reference to the "X" chapters, sold in another (expensive) accompanying book. As if gripped by an unseen force I found myself accumulating various components and sticking them to circuit boards with molten solder. At well over a thousand information-dense pages, though, that feels like an extraordinarily laborious way to get into a hobby that has next to no useful applications. I think the major difference between being an EE and a tech is that if you know the math, it’s not as hard to learn about the circuitry design, but if you know the circuitry it’s harder to figure out the math when there is actually a design problem, if you haven’t studied the higher level math.

For electronic engineering students, [this book] … will help you develop the intuitive understanding, which will make it easier to put the maths in context, and it will be invaluable when you do practical work for design projects. Hopefully, though, you’ve got enough of the flavor of the book to know if it warrants a further look. You don’t always know all the characteristics of the IC that you may want to use based on the datasheets. Read the Transistor section and it's very badly explained unless you know a good deal about transistors. It does a better job than anything I've seen in any medium of telling me enough about a topic to allow me to then look up more elsewhere.I think I learned more about circuits themselves when I was a technician than I did as an EE major in school. This new book features expanded coverage of topics from the previous editions, plus discussions of some interesting but rarely traveled areas of electrical engineering. While it’s not the beginner book that was requested, I suspect “Troubleshooting Analog Circuits” by the late Bob Pease can come right alongside “The Art of Electronics”. Yes, but an EE undergrad degree doesn’t necessarily teach you about electronic applications unless you take courses that focus around that.

They have also included a section on bus converters: bi-directional DC converters, which can convert from one voltage to another, say 12V down to 5V, but also work in reverse, transparently. Many people have described the earlier editions as the best book on electronics, so [this third edition] had a lot to live up to; fortunately, it does not disappoint. Here, you’ll find a discussion of simple diode- and MOSFET-based reverse battery protection circuits, lithium-ion battery circuit safety, implementing foldback current limiting, controlling DC motors with PWM, high-side current sensing, and various other topics in power electronics design. This 'application perspective' is most evident in their presentation: the material is presented with the goal of understanding the behavior of electronic devices, circuits, and systems before the nitty-gritty details of calculating the behaviour … The authors are also liberal in their use of commercially available parts in their presentation, something rarely, if ever, seen in a typical textbook.In fact, each chapter of the new book begins with a repetition of the end-of-chapter review from the corresponding part of AoE3. First off, I should say that I don’t consider any of the AoE books to be suitable as first books for absolute beginners.