Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition

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Spark your creativity and gain the electronics skills required to transform your innovative ideas into functioning gadgets. This hands-on, updated guide outlines electrical principles and provides thorough, easy-to-follow instructions, schematics, and illustrations. Find out how to select components, safely assemble circuits, perform error tests, and build plug-and-play prototypes. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Third Edition, features all-new chapters on sensors, microcontrollers, modular electronics, and the latest software tools. As other reviewer has noted the authors have made a very concientious effort to try to be clear and practical. This is not a theoretical book, although chapter 2 "Theory" alone may well be worth the price for book. Chapter 2 is the most difficult, extensive and theoretical chapter in the book, but worth the effort. The explanations are very detailed and organized on different levels of difficulty. The authors are very systematic in their approach. All basic RC / LC / RLC circuits are explained by calculus, by mechanical / hydraulical analogues and the behaviour is summarized in tables at the end of each section. The authors make a consistent effort to make sure the reader grasps the essentials.

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Probably the best beginner book I have seen so far. It is well paced, has illustrations and doesn't over explain things or have too much type.

The book also goes into detailed discussions of components, how they're made and for what they are used, complete with graphics. How much do you need to know about electronics to create something interesting, or creatively modify … For consistency's sake you might be better just scanning all the images and resetting the print in HTML or something like that. LaTeX, if you know how to do it.

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Electrical Engineering 101 covers the basic theory and practice of electronics, starting by answering the question … By far the best book I've ever read regarding electricity, electronics, and electrical and electronic components. As an engineer student more than 30 years ago I wish my professor had used this book to teach both theory and practical applications. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition, covers:• Resistors, capacitors, inductors, and transformers A Canadian mentioned that neutral and ground bar are connected at the mains and shouldn’t be. I guess this would be Fig 2.29. So I did some googling. Looks like in the US, ground and neutral bars are connected at the mains only, but not at sub panels. So the figure is fine. First result, trying to find this book: "The Metric System, Considered with Reference to Its Introduction Into the United States",

Paul Scherz is a physicist/mechanical engineer who received his B.S. in physics from the University of Wisconsin. He is an inventor/hobbyist in electronics, an area he grew to appreciate through his experience at the University's Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics and the Department of Plasma Physics.

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For beginners even easier to digest than Practical Electronics for Inventors. The negative would be that it is light on math but there are other books that handle that. Great work compiling the errata, you take reading this book seriously. Probably they should have hired you to proof read it Advance your electronics knowledge and gain the skills necessary to develop and construct your own functioning gadgets. Written by a pair of experienced engineers and dedicated hobbyists, Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition, lays out the essentials and provides step-by-step instructions, schematics, and illustrations. Discover how to select the right components, design and build circuits, use microcontrollers and ICs, work with the latest software tools, and test and tweak your creations. This easy-to-follow book features new instruction on programmable logic, semiconductors, operational amplifiers, voltage regulators, power supplies, digital electronics, and more. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition, covers: In our introductory course on electronics we use Neil Storey's "Electonics a systems apporach" as a textbook, and have been using it since the 3rd edition. However, like most textbooks, the author appears to be paid by the word and not by contents. It is much too much text and none of the students actually takes an effort to read anything of the chapters. https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=967A90CA47FD025B!168&authkey=!AJsIsTA2TlrKedo&ithint=file%2c.pdfdescribe and use basic electrical circuit components: resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes, transistors etc.