EEVblog Electronics Community Forum
Electronics => Beginners => Topic started by: drlobster on February 07, 2010, 11:37:31 pm
-
I am learning some electronics, working with Horowitz and Hill as my book. Some of the explanations baffle me though and I am looking for another book.
Does anyone have any opinions on Sedra and Smith, or another book which would help me. My background is in mathematical physics, so math content is no issue for me.
Thanks
-
If you would like, I could post a list of the books that I used during the time I was getting my AS_Degree. It's about 6 books.
-
I know this might seem funny, but try Wikipedia if you haven't already. It's really comprehensive, and even senior level Electronic Engineers (edit - students) use it heavily.
It doesn't always work out this way.. but because it's meant to be general, the articles usually have a simplified, down to earth, easiest possible route to understand. Every time something seems unclear to me at one place, Wikipedia seems to fix it up for me.
Sometimes it even has a general article and a technical article for the same thing. Operational amplifier, for example, has a history and development article. It links at the bottom to another article, called "Op-amp applications" which gives all of the equations and configurations for different op-amp tasks.
-
I learned from Sedra and Smith with no problems.
-
S&S is a very valuable book, though I personally didnt use it much when I did my EE courses.
I later referred it at the time of job interviews - extermely handy! ;D
It has this summary at the end of chapter with insightful equations which will refresh all your concepts!