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vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: bd139 on August 11, 2019, 09:25:53 am ---Disagree with ARRL handbook. Awful book. Someone really needs to rewrite all the tutorial stuff again.

All the units are in groats per dyne still.

RSGB one is useless. Mainly because it’s 80% cross references to out of date ARRL handbooks.

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One problem with the older ARRL Handbooks is that they are really a compendium of QST articles, which tends to make  the narrative a bit disjointed, but I think they are better than the newer ones in general.

I still think that for an Engineer from a different discipline to get a good insight into the basics, they take a lot of beating ----- surely such a person would have the Mathematical background & Googling ability to find the correct SI units, & amend the references.

(Maybe people don't have the attention span to do this, though-------I remember an Engineer many years back, who went through all the pages of "Glasford's Television Engineering" redoing all the calculations which expressly referred to the US 525 line system, & amending them for the 625 line system.)

Much of basic Electrical theory is concepts, rather than the rigid use of units, & when it gets to explanations of  more advanced RF things like mixing, units haven't really changed, anyway.

I do find the use of things like 468/f to derive  half wave antenna lengths in feet annoying as hell, though!
It was probably useful back in the days prior to the use of pocket calculators, but has well & truly passed its use by date!

I haven't seen a modern RSGB Manual, so it seems they may have "fallen on evil times", but the old ones were good.

TheNewLab:
I don;t know about past AARL books, but the most recent seems to be good. It's in six volumes (2018-2019) Some YT channel did a review on it, and appears really good. When I looked it was sold out, and could not even find on eBay or Amazon.

I Like the Malvino Book. I have the 6th edition and to compare the changes I checked the library for 7th and 8th editions. Interestingly, each edition has the same questions. The 7th is without color-didn't like that..
 Art of Electronics, Floyd book and Electronics for Inventors have already been mentioned. All good for what they present.

The John Byrd Electrical and Electronic Principles is  interesting, but 2003. He has a 2013 tile on circuit theory, but I guess theory you already know..
Owen Bishop has two titles.  Electronic Circuits and Systems might be a possibility

 I agree I like the Malvino book best..It is well laid out and the one textbook i worked all the way through it. There was a critical Amazon review that complained little or nothing about IC's, but, IC's are made up of Passives, semi's and transistors.. In my mind, having a solid foundation first makes more sense. Now I can look at the datasheets and understand what they are doing in designing the chip.

TheNewLab:
The thread next door Electronics primers, course material and books
has been running since 2011. There are an awful lot of titles both books and free online titles.

Maybe one day someone might want to go through all those titles and write detailed summaries for all those titles. Maybe include suggested level and specific direction a reader would be interested in. But that would be quite a project, and there are sites, like All About Circuits that have tried to do this

EDIT:
Oops, sorry, just went thru that thread. It appears to basics and tutorials... Where was that thread that listed mostly book titles???

Edit 2:
here's a search on EEVBlog forum with the term "textbooks"
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/search2/

Try other words more closely related to what you want...

EEVblog:
I want to do a shootout review of various textbooks, but they have to be similar in content and scope.
e.g. Floyd, Malvino and Boylestad would be fairly similar I think, ones that cover all your basic active electronics components and circuits (transistors, opamps, filters) etc
These don't cover resistors, inductors or capacitors though.
Like this:


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Neganur:
I'd recommend Sedra/Smith and Floyd as well. They cover the basics for college and beyond in a useful way.
Especially Floyd may appeal to you if you like lots of examples and diagrams to follow the text.

There was also the course book for MIT's Circuits and Electronics by Prof. Anant Agarwal (link).
I think the transistor chapter was fairly OK

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