| Practical Electronics for Inventors |  | Author: Paul Scherz
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
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Edition: 2
Pages: 952
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 1.6
ISBN: 0071452818
Dewey Decimal Number: 621
EAN: 9780071452816
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Publication Date: September 1, 2006
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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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 Good survey of electronics August 20, 2010
James Robert Deluze (Honolulu, Hawaii)
I bought this book to prepare for an advanced physics course in ASIC chip design. I plowed through it in a tight 5 week schedule. Just like the professor said, there are lots of mistakes in this book. But this book goes from electrons to computers. It's strongest section is the part on electronic circuit components. It discusses components at a very detailed level extreemly useful for the inventor. I'm an inventor. It's important to understand the different types of batteries, resistors, capacitors, and other components in order to properly apply them to a given job or invention. This book really, really shines here! It also jumps into math beyond what knowledge I have, so it does not hold back on the essentials. However, the very difficult math is restricted to just a small area of specialized AC waveform analysis. I had to skip that section, but the rest was quite useable. The author wisely skips lightly over details not needed by most. For example, Boolean Algebra is treated adequately, but not in detail. The author rightly states that such derivations are now done best via computer programs. But an engineer would have to know the math in detail in order to trouble shoot problems in digital design. But this is a book for inventors and most of us, and not for electronics engineering students, except as a great survey of electronics from A to Z. The same professor who says this book has a lot errors, and it does, uses this book as a text for teaching electronics to advanced physics students! A worth while book.
A great starting point May 23, 2010
half (Diamond Bar, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
All the reviewers who point out the numerous errors in the book are absolutely correct. I believe, however, that they fail to realize the true utility of the book by trying to use the book as the main or only source of info. They should realize, instead, that the book intends only to be the starting point. Use it for its significant breath to shine light on new or unfamiliar concepts before digging deeper using other more detailed textbooks. Believe me, such a top-down approach is invaluable for someone who needs to actually get something built or modified in a hurry.
Excellent source of information for the electronics enthusiast January 30, 2010
Classic Rock (Tennessee)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great book I highly recommend it to any one interested in building electronics projects. I'm the kind of person that needs to know how things work and am not satisfied just knowing that things work. This book answered all my questions.
 Riddled with Errors December 2, 2009
Philip J. Mayo (Santa Clara, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book presents the material intelligently and comprehesively, but many of the examples and some of the descriptions are riddled with errors. There are errors in basic mathematical calculations. There are errors on reference points (e.g. R2 vice R3). There are mismatches between values provided in an illustrations and and values provided in their descriptions.
The number of errors makes reading the book stilted, because you have to often pause to determine whether you are not understanding an explanation or you have once again discovered another error.
I could see using this book as a text for a class and adding the challenge for students to identify errors as they discover them. It makes the text itself a form of quiz or test. Not ideal but it could be interesting.
Overall for a technical book, it is poorly edited. Anyone who could plug numbers into a calculator should have been able to discover a majority of the errors. Anyone with a little common sense should have recognized all the inconsistencies between descriptions, examples, and references.
Good presentation and a comprehensive coverage of the material, but a terrible attention to detail.
Nice figures with some math errors November 3, 2009
Pascal Nespeca (Davis, CA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am a mechanical engineer and I was looking for a book on electronics that insulted my intelligence. Sure enough, this book delivered. The figures alone do a wonderful job of explaining circuits. Reading the actual text is almost unnecessary. The writing style is very informal and unscientific, which is probably not a bad thing.
As for the math, it did not take me long to spot an error, I just got it today. There was a misplaced negative sign on page 75 which did not make any sense. Other reviewers have found issues with the math. For me, I am pretty well trained in engineering math and I already had a reasonable grasp of linear circuits (not nonlinear circuits), so I am willing to overlook these flaws. This is "practical electronics for inventors" and not "practical electronics for engineers and mathematicians".
I was really looking for a book that explored simple questions like: "How does one use a transistor?", "How do I prevent myself from frying a bunch of microcontroller boards?" or "How do I use an oscilloscope?". This book answers these basic questions for people who have no practical electronics experience (although they may have theoretical experience).
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