Books for Electronic Technicians, Hobbyists, and Experimenters

Books for Electronic Technicians, Students & Hobbyists

• The Art of Electronics ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill / Hardcover 1125 pages, 2nd edition / Published September 1989
This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the hugely successful first edition is the single most authoritative available reference on electronic circuit design, both analog and digital. This second edition continues what the first edition revolutionized, that is the teaching of electronics by emphasizing the methods actually used by circuit designers, which is a combination of some basic laws, rules of thumb, and a large bag of tricks. The result is a largely nonmathematical treatment that encourages circuit intuition, brain storming, and simplified calculations of circuit values and performance. Responding to the rapid pace of changes in electronics, this completely new edition offers many new tables as well as new and revised topics. Completely rewritten chapters on microcomputers and microprocessors, substantially revised chapters on digital electronics, on op-amps and precision design, and on construction techniques. This edition retains the feeling of informality and easy access that made the first edition so successful and popular.
An indispensable reference for anyone who works with circuits.
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• The Art of Electronics Student Manual ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Thomas C. Hayes, Paul Horowitz / Spiral-bound: 614 pages / Published September 1989
This manual is both a guide and aid to users of The Art of Electronics. It is carefully organized to follow the chapters of the main text, providing extra explanatory notes, worked examples, solutions to selected exercises and laboratory exercises. Learning aids such as glossaries, reading assignments, objectives, data sheets and summaries are also included. The manual is a product of many years of teaching at Harvard University, which has given the authors direct knowledge of concepts that students find difficult. The extra explanatory detail makes this manual an essential purchase for students using The Art of Electronics.
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• Electronic Projects using Electronics Workbench ~Usually Ships in 2-3 Days
-M. P. Horsey / Paperback 224 pages, BK&CD-ROM / Published August 1998
This comprehensive beginners guide shows how to use the experimenters simulation software, Electronics Workbench, to design, test, and modify electronic circuits on a computers screen before building them. The inclosed CD-ROM contains sample circuits and answers to the exercises.
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• Advanced Electronic Projects ~Usually Ships in 2-3 Days
-Stephen Kamichik / Paperback 123 pages, 2nd edition / Published June 1998
For the experienced electronic technican or hobbyist the projects are interesting and useful. These include a stereo preamplifier, bipolar power supplies, a digital voltmeter, and more.
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• Electronics: A Self Teaching Guide ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Harry Kybett / Paperback 312 pages, 2nd edition / Published March 1986
This is practical well written book that covers the basics of electronics. Assumes that the read has an understanding of basic electricity.
However, you don’t need any previous electronics experience to use and understand this learn-by-doing guide. This updated edition of this self-teachingguide has been fully revised to keep pace with rapidly changing technology. Covers the basics of electricity and electronic components such as transistors, capacitors, diodes, resistors, and circuits—in a self-paced, self-instructional format. Each chapter begins with an overview of learning objectives and introduces new concepts gradually, with lots of examples, reviews, and self-quizzes. End-of-chapter exercises let you put what you’ve learned to work right away. And there are dozens of experiments with step-by-step instructions, so learning is easy and fun.
This text with its companion volume Digital Electronics, provides a complete review and reference guide for students, technicians, and do-it-yourselfers.
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• Basic Electronics ~Usually ships in 24 Hours
-Bernard Grob / Hardcover 480 pages, 8th Edition / Published December 1996
This well written textbook presents an excellent coverage of basic electronics with clear and concise explanations of basic principles. This textbook presents explanations with plenty of illustrations, examples and problems to work out. All of which combine nicely with the text to provide a very easy to understand format.
Grob's books, long time favorites, have taught thousands of radiomen, electronics technicians, and engineers over the last half century or more.
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• Mathematics for Grob Basic Electronics ~Usually ships in 24 Hours
-Bernard Grob / Paperback, 5th edition / Published June 1997
This book was written and designed to be a companion manual to Basic Electronics by the same author.
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• Mathematics for Basic Electronics ~Usually ships in 13 to 14 days
-Bernard Grob / Paperback 930 pages, 4th edition / Published May 1992
An excellent texbook that presents an excellent coverage of basic mathematics for electronics with clear and concise explanations of basic principles. This textbook presents explanations with plenty of illustrations, examples and problems to work out. All of which combine nicely with the text to provide a very easy to understand format.
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• Basic Electricity ~Usually ships in 2-3 Days
-U.S. Navy / Paperback 300 pages, 2nd Edition / Published March 1975
This long standing textbook is/was used in the military electronic basic schools and provides a through coverage of the basic theory of electricity and its applications.
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Basic Electricity: A Self-Teaching Course ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Charles William Ryan / Paperback 304 pages,2nd Edition / Published October 1986
You can teach yourself all about electricty. This This self-teaching book is a easy to use guide that takes you through the basics of electrity and familiarizes you with the working of voltage, current and resitance, power calculations, direct current, and alternating current electricty. Covers series and parallel circuitry, and inductance and capacitance theory. Through step-by-step problem solving you will gain a true understanding of the basic rules, laws and concepts and equations of electric circuits. Contains self tests at the end of each chapter and a end of course exam.
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• How Electronic Things Work And What to Do When They Don't ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Robert Goodman / Paperback 393 pages / Published August 1998
A guide to understanding and repairing electronics equipment written for people (even those with no prior electronics experience) who want to learn how to fix their stuff, instead of calling the repair shop. Learn how to get your electronic equipment up and running perfectly with this handy do-it-yourself introduction to basic home-and-office electronics repair. This fully illustrated and easy to use guide will help you to get an understanding of the workings of your electronic things and even learn how to make your own repairs. From audio/video equipment to cameras, cordless and wireless phones, personal computers, and peripherals, it will help everyone troubleshoot and find solutions. Includes safety tips, easy-to-read schematics, block diagrams, and time-saving information on the most common problems and fixes.
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• Build Your Own Home Lab ~Usually Ships in 6 to 10 Days
-Clement S. Pepper / Paperback 314 pages / Published August 1997
For electronic tecnicians, experimenters and hobbists who love experimenting with electronic parts or building electronic kits, this book is for you. This book shows you how to assemble for yourself an efficient working home lab inexpensively, and how to make it pay for itself through years of growth and use. Includes detailed information on building power supplies, digital panel meters, frequency counters, timers, function generators, battery monitors, and more. Also contains component descriptions, technical data, and application notes for diodes, transistors, LED's, IC's, and more. This book will be a useful reference even after you have built your own dream lab.
Also includes projects for building your own instruments, including a multichannel oscilloscope switch and a 100-minute timer/stopwatch.
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• Beginner's Guide to Reading Schematics ~Usually Ships in 2-3 Days
-Robert J. Traister, et al / Paperback 129 pages, 2nd edition / Published May 1991
The ability to read and to understand electronic schematics is vital to electronic technicians, hobbists, and anyone working with electronic circuitry.
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• Schematic Diagrams: The Basics of Interpretation and Use
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-J. Richard Johnson / Paperback 196 pages / Published October 1994
This book is an excellant reference and guide for technicians and for anyone that need to fully understand schematics.
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• Test Procedures for Basic Electronics ~Usually Ships in 2-3 Days
-Irving M. Gottlieb / Paperback 356 pages / Published December 1994
This guide presents test procedures intended for a variety of electronic test practitioners.
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• Simple, Low Cost Electronics Projects ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Fred Blechman / Paperback 216 pages / Published August 1998 This book provides a collection of 22 different circuit designs that provides an understanding of electronic circuitry. Study, build and operate these circuits to get a better understanding how electronics really works.
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• Digital Electronics Guidebook: With Projects! ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Michael Predko / Paperback 528 pages / Published November 2001
This mini-course will give your the tools to master basic digital electronics. Designed for the electronics hobbyists, and beginning electronic technician students, who want to understand digital logic and build their own low-cost digital logic circuits. Contains than hands-on 20 projects for designing, constructing, using, and interfacing easy-to-build electronic circuitry. This guidebook provides complete instructions for setting up your own digital electronics lab. Construct your own simple 8-bit computer and learn how computers really work. Provides instructions, tips and techniques for making electronic circuits that switch, count, measure, control, make decisions, and provides explanations of basic electronics and the required math. Get expert guidance on creating, prototyping, and debugging electronic applications of your own design.
Also contains useful tables, data and important formulas.
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• PC PHD: Inside PC Interfacing ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Michael Predko / Paperback 960 pages, BK & CD-ROM edition / Published August 1999
This book provides detailed explanations of PC operations, from both a hardware and software perspective. Includes detailed coverage of all interfaces, including parallel port, serial port (RS232), the USB, I/O buses (ISA, PCI, IDE, and SCSI), and mouse and keyboard ports. Shows you how to work with memory and I/O space mapping, parallel ports, serial ports (RS-232), expansion busses (ISA, MCA, EISA, and PCI), disk busses (IDE, EIDE and SCSI), the joystick interface and the new USB. Plus experiments, architecture, instruction sets, and the applications of over 30 projects. Including source code in 8086 assembler, and covers Visual Basic, Visual C++, and LabView.
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• Programming & Customizing PICmicro Microcontrollers ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Michael Predko / Paperback 680 pages, BK & CD-ROM Edition / Published
This excellent book details the features of the PICmicro controllers and shows how to use these chips to access and control many different devices. Provides a comprehensive coverage of the PICMicros hardware architecture and software applications which nicely complements the many experiments and projects, making this a complete, "Learn as You Do-It", home workshop course. Extensive material is also included to help you to debug your own applications from both the hardware and softwere perspectives. Includes 10 new projects and 20 new experiments. And a PCB for programming the PICmiro, Advanced PICmiro programming topics including Macros, High-Level Languages, and Interrupt Handlers. This programmer will have the capability to program all the PICMicros used by the application.
The CD-ROM contains the source code for all applications and experiments, plus software tools for applications and the complete data sheets for the PIC family in PDF format.
The Appendices contains an introduction to electronics and programming, engineering formulas and PICmicro resourses, including web sites.
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• Practical Electronics for Inventors ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Paul Scherz / Paperback 528 pages / Published April 2000
This useful guide to electronics for engineers, hobbyists, and students, presents nformation on particular electronic circuits and components without overloading readers with to much technical detail. Covering basic electronics theory and circuitry. The basic circuit components discussed include semiconductors, optoelectronics, integrated circuits (ICs), operational amplifiers, filters, oscillators and timers, voltage regulators, audio electronics, digital electronics, DC motors, RC servos, and includes a complete chapter on the latest microcontrollers. Provides clear, detailed instructions on how to turn theoretical ideas into working electronic equipment and useful gadgets. Includes over 750 hand-drawn illustrations.
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• Mastering Technical Mathematics ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Stan Gibilisco, Bob Goodman, Norman H. Crowhurst
Paperback 567 pages / Published May 1999
This book is a practical self-teaching guide to technical mathematics, covering basic arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. Contains step-by-step illustrated instructions and alternative techniques for solving problems in technical mathematics. Totally revised and updated with state-of-the-art coverage of logic and digital systems. This tutoral guide provides helpful examples and illustrations, chapter self-tests, and even a comprehensive final exam. Great instruction for mastering math tests and certification exams, earning a technical degree, or confidently tackling any engineering challenge.
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