- ISBN13: 9780071434935
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Product Description
SHOCK YOURSELF BY LEARNING ELECTRONICS Now anyone with an interest in electronics can master it„oby reading this book. In Electronics Demystified, best-selling science and math writer Stan Gibilisco provides an effective and painless way to understand the electronics that power so much of modern life. With Electronics Demystified, you master the subject one simple step at a time¡Xat your own speed. This unique self-teaching guide offers problems at the en… More >>
I bought this book for reference purposes for things I may have forgotten, that I learned long ago.
Anyone that buys this book to learn electronics will not learn very much and will in all likelihood end up not understanding electronics.
Terrible writer.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book provides a solid foundation to electronics. I plan to keep it on my shelf for quick and easy reference.
Rating: 5 / 5
Covers a number of topics in one or two paragraph bites. Doesn’t really go over many useful concepts. Reads like a promotional flier for something that would offer more in-depth work. Can’t really recommend this even as a refresher.
Rating: 2 / 5
There are countless excellent electronics books on the market, many targeted towards the beginner, but I believe that none are more suitable than this book for reading from beginning to end. If you take the intention of this book to heart, which is to skim the breadth of analog electronics, then you will find it to be a fun, fun read. Use it to create mental landmarks for your further exploration of specific topics. By no means should you expect to design a circuit just from having read this book, because that is definitely not what it is meant for.
The unfortunate fact is that analog electronics is a vast field, plagued with more apparent mysteries than is the field of digital electronics. For instance, many excellent introductory analog electronics books start with the op-amp and immediately dive into 5 chapters of detailed analysis of different op-amps and their circuits. (E.g. what is the frequency response, how to tweak it for temperature stability, what is the signal-to-noise ratio, etc, etc, etc.) That is what a circuit designer will appreciate, but to an electronics novice, getting a wonderful training in op-amps will not open his/her eyes to how anything fits in the big picture.
That is exactly where this book comes into play. It spends a mere few pages on the op-amp, doesn’t try to analyze it hardly at all. You learn how you could possibly use it, and you’re on to the next topic. At some point in the future, perhaps you might come across a circuit with an op-amp, you’ll at least know what it roughly does, and if you choose, you can get another excellent book that focuses on op-amps to do your own design.
I think the market really needs a book such as this one, and the author has done a great service.
Rating: 4 / 5
If you are new to electronics and have no idea about circuits, transistors, diodes, antennas or even what these words really mean, this might be the right book for you. It introduces all these concepts, and lets you get exposed to them in a systematic way. However, the concepts may be introduced a bit haphazardly, and it’s not always easy to see how all the material fits together. The book is also filled with exercises and quizzes, and these may be the most worthwhile aspects of the books. Nonetheless, keep in mind that electronics is an empirical discipline, so the real learning happens with hands-on experience with building (and blowing up) of actual physical circuits. But if you are just interested in getting exposed to the basic concepts, this would be a good book to read.
Rating: 4 / 5