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Practical Electronics for Inventors |  | Author: Paul Scherz
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 952
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 1.6
ISBN: 0071452818
Dewey Decimal Number: 621
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THE BOOK THAT MAKES ELECTRONICS MAKE SENSE This intuitive, applications-driven guide to electronics for hobbyists, engineers, and students doesn't overload readers with technical detail. Instead, it tells you-and shows you-what basic and advanced electronics parts and components do, and how they work. Chock-full of illustrations, Practical Electronics for Inventors offers over 750 hand-drawn images that provide clear, detailed instructions that can help turn theoretical ideas into real-life inventions and gadgets. CRYSTAL CLEAR AND COMPREHENSIVE Covering the entire field of electronics, from basics through analog and digital, AC and DC, integrated circuits (ICs), semiconductors, stepper motors and servos, LCD displays, and various input/output devices, this guide even includes a full chapter on the latest microcontrollers. A favorite memory-jogger for working electronics engineers, Practical Electronics for Inventors is also the ideal manual for those just getting started in circuit design. If you want to succeed in turning your ideas into workable electronic gadgets and inventions, is THE book. Starting with a light review of electronics history, physics, and math, the book provides an easy-to-understand overview of all major electronic elements, including: Basic passive components o Resistors, capacitors, inductors, transformers o Discrete passive circuits o Current-limiting networks, voltage dividers, filter circuits, attenuators o Discrete active devices o Diodes, transistors, thrysistors o Microcontrollers o Rectifiers, amplifiers, modulators, mixers, voltage regulators ENTHUSIASTIC READERS HELPED US MAKE THIS BOOK EVEN BETTER This revised, improved, and completely updated second edition reflects suggestions offered by the loyal hobbyists and inventors who made the first edition a bestseller. Reader-suggested improvements in this guide include: - Thoroughly expanded and improved theory chapter
- New sections covering test equipment, optoelectronics, microcontroller circuits, and more
- New and revised drawings
- Answered problems throughout the book
Practical Electronics for Inventors takes you through reading schematics, building and testing prototypes, purchasing electronic components, and safe work practices. You'll find all thisin a guide that's destined to get your creative-and inventive-juices flowing.
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 Practical Electronics For Inventors April 29, 2000
30 out of 33 found this review helpful
This book rocks! I'm an engineering student, and I've been looking for a book like this for some time. It's really covers topics in a manner that I can understand, and seems to touch upon everything in electronics, from theory, semiconductors, integrated circuits, stepper motors and servos, microcontrollers, LCD displays, etc. The drawing are pretty damn cool too. I highly recommend this book to anyone--beginner or engineer.
Excellent entry level book March 6, 2001
Matthew E. Hill (boulder, co USA)
33 out of 37 found this review helpful
It's probably safe to assume that the majority of people who read books about basic electronics do so because they intend to build things. This book caters to such an audience. It provides theory and examples that allow you to build your own basic circuits. The concepts aren't easy, but the author helps you understand them.
Good book mixing practice and theory for Electronics. March 30, 2007
M. Stout
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Ok, so I see people praising this book and hating it. Those kind of reviews bug me because I can never make up my mind on a book. Fortunately, I bought this book already and didn't read these reviews.
Here's my take. I'm 8 years out of college and working for a big electronics company. I like this book. I need something to help me tinker with electronics and at the same time provide theory. I like the balance that this book strikes. I want to be able to look up old semiconductor company IC logos and at the same time read about RLC ckts resonating. That practical knowledge is hard to come by. There are plenty of good theory books, but I'm tired of amassing a library of many specialized, academic-style books. This book is not a text book, so the "inventor" part of the title should be paid attention to. If you want practice questions for theory understanding, buy a Schaum's Outline. This is the book to grab if you want to suddenly look up a basic logic gate that you forgot or you want to learn/review FM radio.
This book and Art of Electronics will get you into electronics with practical understanding. Get those and some of Forrest Mim's books for simple projects and you'll be good to go.
Good luck.
Valuable and enjoyable. December 7, 2001
R. Koch (Chicagoland)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Great book! This book takes you from basics (using flowing water as an analogy) to designing elementary digital circuits. It's guaranteed to become dog-eared from use as you rely upon it as both a text and reference manual. I've been an electronics hobbyist since TVs had tubes and transistor radios were leading edge technology. Over the years I've forgotten much of what I had learned, and hadn't learned a great deal in the digital arena. This book re-taught me what I had forgotten, in a better way than I had first learned it, and brought me up to speed on digital circuits. Yes, as another reviewer noted, there are some errors that crept in. They often do. They aren't show stoppers and they shouldn't stop you from buying and using this valuable guide.
Practical and Excellent! June 5, 2000
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book as far as content. It offers practical and insightful information for the engineer and hobbyist. It is not loaded down with formulas and theory. This is real "hands on" stuff! Be careful though as there are alot of typos. I believe it will become one of the classics like The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill. A must have for the engineer, hobbyist or inventor!
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