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Offline SamwelTopic starter

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Books for reference
« on: June 12, 2016, 11:09:37 pm »
Hi can anyone recommend me books that I can buy which explain the equations and mathematics involved in electrical engineering ?
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Re: Books for reference
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2016, 11:43:34 pm »
Electrical engineering is too vast a subject to be able to recommend even a small number of books.  College graduates only learn a small fraction of the field. What areas are you interested in?  For example, hardware or software, analog or digital, audio or radio, etc.  If you better define what you want, then some book selections may be possible. Mathematics, as applied in electrical engineering, is wide ranging: filter design, spectrum analysis, radio wave propagation, error correcting codes, etc.  There is no one book that will cover all of this.  You must narrow your outlook.
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Re: Books for reference
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2016, 10:27:13 am »
Love Cypress PSOC, ATTiny, Bit Slice, OpAmps, Oscilloscopes, and Analog Gurus like Pease, Miller, Widlar, Dobkin, obsessed with being an engineer
 
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Re: Books for reference
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2016, 03:18:31 am »
If you are concerned primarily with the mathematics, I've found schaum's outlines to be helpful in the past. They are probably only useful as a supplement to a textbook that explains the theory, but they are basically just huge solved problem sets.
 

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Re: Books for reference
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2018, 06:47:54 am »
That would be beneficial but I really want the same but for robotics.

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Re: Books for reference
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2018, 08:43:02 am »
A lot of pdf books of all types can be found on the web


Not many are text books like in high school tho, which is a shame. But overall I bet more books can be found by the common human than ever before. Most people tho like me will never use them all ,which is a shame.
 

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Re: Books for reference
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2018, 09:12:40 am »
I don’t know how old you are or what you have studied so it’s hard to say exactly what books are good.

I was around the age of  15 when I got interested in electronics for real (Not just using a 555 and a OP amp) what I did was that I called the university’s that had electrical engineering and asked what books they used for respective courses and saved up money to buy them, they cost 50-200$. I dint bother buying books that were way too complicated (I’m no math whiz, just an average Joe with determination). I kept doing this throughout my teens and it taught me a lot.

Can highly recommend this, it takes a lot of time learning how things work and why some things that should do something don’t do it.
 

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Re: Books for reference
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2018, 11:25:56 am »
"Integrated Electronics: Analog and Digital Circuits and Systems" by Jacob Millman, Christos C. Halkias.

Quite an old book, but it covers a lot of ground from a theoretical perspective. You'll probably find PDFs online, but it's pretty cheap secondhand. Makes a nice compliment to Horowitz & Hill.
 

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Re: Books for reference
« Reply #8 on: September 06, 2018, 12:18:16 pm »
"Integrated Electronics: Analog and Digital Circuits and Systems" by Jacob Millman, Christos C. Halkias.

Quite an old book, but it covers a lot of ground from a theoretical perspective. You'll probably find PDFs online, but it's pretty cheap secondhand. Makes a nice compliment to Horowitz & Hill.
Yup...good book. Launched my career over 40 yrs ago.
 

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« Reply #9 on: September 06, 2018, 12:48:27 pm »
The problem with most concise reference books on EE is if they cover a wide range of information they are just to refresh your memory about information that you have studied, already know, and they don't go into any detail. What you want to do is decide what area you want to learn about and find an introduction book on that piece of the whole puzzle.

I agree that the Schaum's Outline series is a good place to start, and if you want to go deeper, then at least you can decide what the next step is and which direction to go.
 

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Re: Books for reference
« Reply #10 on: September 06, 2018, 01:56:15 pm »
Here is an example of what can happen if you just have the equations but really don't understand how to apply them in a particular situation.  :-DD

 
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Re: Books for reference
« Reply #11 on: September 06, 2018, 01:59:59 pm »
"Integrated Electronics: Analog and Digital Circuits and Systems" by Jacob Millman, Christos C. Halkias.

Quite an old book, but it covers a lot of ground from a theoretical perspective. You'll probably find PDFs online, but it's pretty cheap secondhand. Makes a nice compliment to Horowitz & Hill.
Yup...good book. Launched my career over 40 yrs ago.

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Re: Books for reference
« Reply #12 on: September 06, 2018, 08:25:54 pm »
Just for fun...a couple of shelves of analog books...
 

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« Reply #13 on: September 06, 2018, 08:50:31 pm »
"Art of Electronics" (text) plus "Learning the Art of Electronics" (lab manual).

When you do come up with a recommendation, try Alibris.com for used copies.

Well known secret:  All of the textbooks published in the US are also published in India for about 1/10 the cost.  They are marked that they are not to be imported back into the US.  But sometimes they are!  I have several and while the paper is thinner and the binding not as high quality, they contain the same material for a fraction of the cost.  Sometimes these show up on Alibris.

As to the equations, they're no help if you can't solve them.  There are solvers like wxMaxima, MATLAB, Octave, Maple, Symbolab.com (add Desmos.com for graphing) and so on.  But, ultimately, you need to be able to solve the equations yourself to understand what they represent and how the variables interact.  Plugging them into a solver gets you the wrong answer to 12 significant digits.  Precise but solving the wrong equation.

So, there are some math classes:  Calc I, Calc II, Calc III, Differential Equations then Laplace Transforms, Fourier Analysis, Field Theory and so on.  It isn't easy getting through these although the first four are lower division college classes normally available at a community college.  The thing is, most incoming students won't have the Algebra and Trigonometry skills so there will be a 2 semester course in Pre-Calc.  So, figure 6 semesters of lower division math.  Calculus isn't difficult as long as your pre-calc skills are adequate.  If not, you won't succeed.

A popular text for the first 4 classes (after Pre-Calc) is Stewart:
https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-MindTap-Course-James-Stewart/dp/1285740629

This book is terribly expensive but it covers 4 classes so, in some small way, it is a bargain.
 

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Re: Books for reference
« Reply #14 on: September 06, 2018, 11:16:55 pm »
If you want to get started into Digital Electronics , then I would highly recommend "Digital Principles and Applications by Leach & Malvino".........this book was part of our EE course texbooks and believe me , it helped a novice like me to get from nada to writing design articles for magazines within 2 years.......highly recommended  :-+ :-+ :-+
 

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Re: Books for reference
« Reply #15 on: September 07, 2018, 09:36:15 pm »
There's a 'sticky' at the top of this forum for books and references
 


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