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Electronics the Easy Way
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Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.381
EAN: 9780764119811
ISBN: 0764119818
Label: Barron's Educational Series
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2002-09-08
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Studio: Barron's Educational Series
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Editorial Reviews:
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This supplementary textbook for electrical engineering students will also prove enlightening to others who have an aptitude for working with electronic equipment. The authors present a complex subject in step-by-step fashion—literally guiding students through the easy way to understand electronics. This newly updated edition embraces the most recent developments in electronics. Opening with a chapter on the many available careers in the field, the authors continue with a review of the basic principles of electricity and electronics. Subsequent chapters explain semiconductors, audio amplifiers, stereo equipment, oscillators, transmitters, television, lasers and fiber optics, radar, computer hardware, and much more. The book is filled with informative line art and circuitry diagrams.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: great
Comment: my husband loves this book. hes an elevator mechanic and always wanting to learn. we found this at the lirbray and after he checked it out over six times i decided it would be a good buy! worth it!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very helpful
Comment: I bought this book for my Basic Electronics class, and it really helped with understanding everything. I wasn't falling asleep or overwhelmed. It really turns me off when something advertises itself as the "easy way" to do something because I feel like I'm ripping myself off, but after reading this book a bit, I realized that it's not a shortcut-- it's simply laid out well, so yeah I'm a fan.
-allie
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Summary: Electronics the Easy Way (Electronics the Easy Way)
Comment: Book met my needs
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Summary: Very Bad Book
Comment: i am a 4yr. electronics hobbyist i agree this book is very confusing it starts with hardly the foundation of the basics then goes right into the theories assuming you have prior knowledge of it!!! i suggest you go to your local book store and grab Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics by Stan Gibilisco asap
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Summary: The content is there, if you can decipher it
Comment: Straight off the bat I have to say that this book is quite poorly written, with sentences averaging around a dozen words all too often. I was constantly finding that the short sentences were interrupting the thought process as I read, making it hard to understand many of the concepts as they were being introduced and requring re-reading of paragraphs. Flicking through the book again, I'm noticing that the author uses very few commas, preferring instead to start new sentences as if they were bullet points in a list. Opening to a random page, a sample of this follows:
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The closed-loop op amp has feedback (see Figure 9-11). Feedback can be either positive or negative. Positive feedback reinforces the input signal. Properly adjusted for phase and ampliture, positive feedback can cause the amplifier to oscillate. A positive feedback loop is connected to the noninverting side of the input signal. This positive feedback loop increases the output of the circuit. The increase is caused because the input and output are in phase and the feedback in aiding the input and increasing its level of input to result in a greater output.
There is positive and negative feedback. Negative feedback can be used for a number of purposes. In this closed-loop op-amp circuit, it is used to increase the circuit stability and to reduce distortion. The negative feedback is 180° out of phase with the input signal. This cuts or drops the input signal. This reduces the output signal, and it has a better quality since some of the distortion was present in the uppoer peaks of the input signal.
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As this is the entire discussion of closed-loop op amps, I'd at least want a few diagrams to go along with it to show what affect some of these have on input/output signals - but you get nothing of the sort. The figure 9-11 that is mentioned is a basic schematic with an arrow pointing in the direction of feedback; which surprisingly enough is going in the reverse direction!
While this is a single example, it is a common problem throughout the book, with concepts mentioned once and never given a proper description, example, or diagram.
Aside from the short sentences and fairly frequent bad descriptions, I cannot say that I like the books organization in the beginning where the author tries to explain both AC and DC simultaneously. This adds a lot of overhead for the reader to keep separate while trying to understand even one of the concepts and is why most other books keep these two subjects very separate in the early stages.
Considering that I bought this book as a refresher for electronics and already knew most of the concepts it introduced in the first third-to-half, I cannot see how someone that is completely new to the subject will be able fare well using this book as a guide. As other reviewers have said here, using this book along with several others is probably the only way you'll get much out of it, but if you're going to do that you're probably better off just buying a better book to start with.
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