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The Art Of Electronics book is awesome!

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mcovington:
Definitely keep, or get, the older editions if you can!   The first edition (1981?) is more accessible to beginners than the later ones, and it has some amusing features such as "Bad Circuits."

I got the first edition in 1982 and it was career-changing.  At last, an electronics book about how to build things, rather than how to construct differential equations!  It was written at just the right time, after the proliferation of ICs.  Ten years earlier it couldn't have been done.  Forty years later it is hardly out of date -- we still have everything that's in it, although we also have newer things.

The third edition is definitely not a textbook.  For that you want "Learning the Art of Electronics" (its lab manual), which is a fine book.  "The Art of Electronics" itself is more a compendium of more advanced discussion.  And then the X Chapters are more advanced than that.

"The Art of Electronics" reminds me of "Radiotron Designer's Handbook" (proud product of Australia!), which guided engineers through the vacuum tube era and, like AoE, was full of practical information that was hard to get anywhere else.

mcovington:

--- Quote from: rstofer on December 27, 2019, 12:03:13 am ---Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Law, Thevenin and Norton's Theorems are vitally important, they must be well understood.

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Amen!  One thing everybody needs drummed into them is that Ohm's law is not a set of formulas for calculating things, it is how electricity works.

Voltage is the force that drives a current through a resistance.

Ohm's law IS electricity.

From there, Kirchhoff is easy and Thevenin and Norton are straightforward.

rstofer:
Skip the books or put them off for later.

Start here:  https://www.khanacademy.org/science/electrical-engineering#introduction-to-ee

It's not a full curriculum but it's a heck of a start.  Just making it through Circuit Analysis would put a newcomer at the head of the class.

If the math gets out of hand, start here: https://www.khanacademy.org/math

Remember, it takes 4 or 5 years to get a basic knowledge of electronics.  Nothing of any practical value will be taught, you just have to grind through the fundamentals.  But, given the fundamentals, it is possible to pick up data sheets and white papers and work through the examples.

You will find that there is a lot of hand waving in circuit analysis.  "It works like this, more or less..." where exact answers aren't required.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: mcovington on December 27, 2019, 04:52:16 am ---
--- Quote from: MarkF on December 26, 2019, 06:42:08 pm ---You can actually download the 3rd (2015) version here:

   https://archive.org/details/TheArtOfElectronics3rdEd2015/page/n3

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Not a legitimate, legal distribution, in case someone had not guessed this.

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Both that PDF and the PDF that Win Hill publicised in his dropbox account are 29MB in size. For the avoidance of doubt, Win Hill is one of the authors of TAoE :)

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: mcovington on December 27, 2019, 05:26:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: rstofer on December 27, 2019, 12:03:13 am ---Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Law, Thevenin and Norton's Theorems are vitally important, they must be well understood.

--- End quote ---

Amen!  One thing everybody needs drummed into them is that Ohm's law is not a set of formulas for calculating things, it is how electricity works.

Voltage is the force that drives a current through a resistance.

Ohm's law IS electricity.

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Er, no - look at the definition of Ohms Law :) Let's take a few simple examples...

Ohms law describes a linear relationship between voltage and current; most materials (including components like resistors) are not linear.

Ohms law does not describe what happens inside a capacitor.

Ohms law does not describe how, say, microstrip filters operate.

There are many other examples, but that is sufficient.

If you want to consider fundamentals, you have to consider the electric fields and magnetic fields, starting with Maxwell's equations. Current, voltage and resistance are merely a convenient simplification of part of Maxwell's equations.

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