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Basic Electronics Theory With Projects and Experiments
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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.381
EAN: 9780830642007
ISBN: 0830642005
Label: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 692
Publication Date: 1993-09-01
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
Studio: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
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A complete self-paced course and quick reference for hobbyists, students, and beginning-level technicians. Chapter-ending tests help readers gauge their progress. New editions include information on computerized test equipment, laser diodes, VMOS transistors, logic family interfacing, new computer microprocessors, and Digital Audio Tape (DAT).
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Summary: Good/Bad reviews BOTH valid -- it's a bizarre case
Comment: As I write, this FOURTH (!) edition book has about a dozen scathing reviews and a half dozen good-to-equivocating reviews. Strangely, I find myself agreeing with all of them. Horn's writing style really IS remarkably good (e.g., the WAY he introduces Kirchhoff's laws, p.33-47), and the typos ARE astonishingly awful. Flip to page 202-203 for the very first Ohm's Law experiment, and he shows "3mA" where the value obviously must be "30mA". (And all of the mA values in his table are off by this same factor of ten.) And given the insanely vague depiction of the transformer coils for Experiment 10 on page 214 (which you plug into a wall socket!), I even agree with the reviewer who said publication of this book is "almost criminally negligent." On the other hand, one page earlier, Experiment 9 on LRC resonance is beautiful -- just the ticket. My advice: Although strictly speaking this is a "technical" book, try to read it only for its ideas, and avoid ALL the technical details like the plague. (Notice that no reviewer so far has said, "Instead I recommend that you buy XYZ which covers the same terrain sans aggravating errors." One suspects that there is no such book, and that's why this one persists, BIG warts and all.)
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Summary: Beware the Horn
Comment: This book is clearly written and I have used it as a textbook in a course I teach on the principles and history of radio that I have been giving at
U. Mass Lowell for over 10 years. The students are liberal arts majors who usually have had no calculus. The level of math in this book is appropriate for them. The author has done a disservice to his readers by not providing an address where he could be informed of errors and shortcomings that could have been easily corrected in subsequent printings. This textbook has already had a number of printings but the errors persist. Here are some problems that readers should know about:
On page 28 the author should tell you that when two resistors are in parallel the equivalent resistor is the product of the given resistances divided by their sum. Every technician, electrical engineer and radio ham knows this formula. On page 81 the author should provide the corresponding formula for capacitors in series: the product divided by the sum is the equivalent capacitance.
Hams and EE's know that for a radio wave the frequency in megahertz times the wavelength in meters is equal to 300. This should appear on page 534 where the author discusses the length of antenna elements.
There is a sign error on page 539 . The equation 37-2 should be
FO=RF + IF . See Paul Nahin's book on the science of radio. The formula for the inductance of a coil given on p. 110 yields the inductance in microhenries; the author says millihenries and he is wrong.
A. David Wunsch, ECE Dept. U Mass Lowell
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Summary: Shocked at that its not a best seller
Comment: The other two reviews are absolutely correct. I recently checked this book out of my public library and found it to be a very comfortable and complete. Im going to buy it right now. This book absolutely does not skip over any information and is completely comprehensive. I am absolutely shocked that this book is not a 5 star best seller. If you are simple just beginning to learn about electronics, this truly is the only book you need.
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Summary: review of 4th edition paperback
Comment: This book has many errors. I stumbled across them without intending to. For example, chapter 3 page 20 lists a formula to find watts as P=E*E*R, it should be P=E*E/R. In chapter 8 I found two typos, one in the formula to find the inductance of a coil page 110, another in the defining of terms on page 111. That's just a few that I can easily reference because I took the time to scribble out what was printed.
The biggest problem is that these typos aren't simple misspellings; The typos are mostly found in the formulas. As a reference this book fails. A person could hurt themselves blowing up components because of these formulas. The release of this book is almost criminally negligent.
It's obvious from the nature of the errors that the author has little responsiblity for them. The errors seem to arise from poor type setting of whatever type of press the publisher is using. My tip for readers is find a different book, and my tip to the author is find a different publisher.
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Summary: Avoid this book like the plague!
Comment: I unfortunately purchased this book elsewhere and did not take advantage of the reviews here. I have been working in the electronics industry for over 25 years and actually never ran across trash like this. I'm retired and research these books for a hobby. I only got a few pages into it when I realized that this guy never mentions the two conventions for current of which he used the reverse that is used totally in the industry. For students this will be very confusing for them to be presented with only the "electron flow" current convention instead of the widely used "positive to negative potential" current convention. Agreed it makes absolutely no difference as long as you use the same convention throughout your analysis. Everyone else in the world seems to use the opposite. Take note of the arrows in semiconductor symbols.
I am not sure if I really want to waste any more of my research on this to find out about all the other errors described in other reviews.
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