Re: Beginner Electroinic

From: Wayne Farmer (usenet_at_endymionsystems.com)
Date: 03/19/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:56:06 -0500

"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote in message
news:d7p_d.19823$Pz7.5101@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
> Hello Al,
>
> >> A good book, that should last you for quite some while, is "The Art of
> >> Electronics" by Paul Horowitz & Winfield Hill. This covers the
> >> majority of the theory side that you will require and would also be
> >> useful through any course of study you undertake.
> >
> >
> > Personally, I found this a very good book after I already knew some
> > basic AC theory. I don't think it's a good introduction for a raw
> > novice. Maybe it should be coupled with a standard introductory textbook
> > explaining basic circuit theory in more depth.
>
> But it does start with pretty basic stuff like "what is an inductor".
> That has helped me in explaining, for example, a switch mode converter
> to others (use of an inductor as an energy storage device).
>
> Regards, Joerg
>
> http://www.analogconsultants.com

I'm like the OP (Sean Fao); most of my work has been programming. I bought
"Art of Electronics" a few years ago, but found it much more comprehensible
after I'd taken some DC and AC theory classes in a local community college.
The book we're using in those classes is Electronic Fundamentals (Floyd),
and I think it's a really good introduction. However, Floyd chooses to
discuss AC circuits without using any mathematics more involved than
multiplication, division, square and square root, sine, cosine, tangent, and
arctangent. I did some outside reading (including Art of Electronics) and
finally realized why complex numbers are useful and easier to use for AC
theory, so I'm using those instead. As for the more complicated mathematics
of AC circuits, Laplace Transforms aren't something I need to bother with
right now, but perhaps in the future.

Wayne

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