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All-inclusive introduction to electricity and electronics. For the true beginner, there’s no better introduction to electricity and electronics than TAB Electronics Guide to Understanding Electricity and Electronics , Second Edition. Randy Slone’s learn-as-you-go guide tells you how to put together a low-cost workbench and start a parts and materials inventory–including money-saving how-to’s for salvaging components and buying from surplus dealers. You g… More >>
Tab Electronics Guide to Understanding Electricity and Electronics
How some people gave this book a five star review is way beyond me. First of all, I’d just like to mention that this nice book gives you schematic diagrams using symbols and other things without explaining them first! Secondly, if you want to understand electronics it can only be assumed that you want to understand the physics behind it! This book dedicates about a sentence to a paragraph to physics for each section. Horrible! So basically, this INTRODUCTION to electronics doesn’t do a lot of introducing you to anything! I’m on transistors right now, and I’ve spent days researching the physics of how they work on the Internet, and guess what? It’s using schematics I don’t understand, and yet again I’m going to have to do more looking on the net. This book is not worth it. Don’t buy it! Just please, for your own sake, find another one. Also, half the book is dedicated to projects. That is, actually building electronic circuits! Why didn’t the author just entitle this, “How to build electronic devices”, then? It’s beyond me! As far as explaining things are concerned, the book does very little, and assume you know more than you do. Unfortunately I’m going to have to end up buying another electronics textbook, because this one is just horrible. I was really wanting to learn something from this book, but it’s just not happening. For every chapter I’ve read on this book I’ve had to do research on the net, and I’m sick of it. I’m on pg. 154, and I’m closing it. DO NOT buy this book! I’ve already found a better book on amazon.com (just buy reading the Table of Contents!!!!!!!!!!) and I’m going to get it!
Rating: 2 / 5
I think this book is the worst of both worlds as a text or reference manual in that there are no real-world analogies in the first two chapters, and there aren’t any really good tables for reference either. Also, in chapter two the description of capacitors (and their markings) makes no sense and the first page of chapter that ends with “this is why all common household current is AC” also makes no sense because it is preambled by a description of AC and no transformer action.
I read chapter two a couple of times but still lack a good understanding because I NEED (as I imagine many do) some connection with the real world. The water pump example is good but it stops there. I dove into this text with an excitement and desire to diagnose and repair some old audio equipment that can see new life. I think I’d better find a better book before i get completely discouraged, or start working without good knowledge.
Rating: 2 / 5
I like the idea of this book explaining things in such a way that a 10 year old boy could understand them. It does not do this. Terms and concepts are introduced kind of fast and you keep reading “Now that all that theory is out of the way…” only to turn the page and slam into some more equations. Personally, I could use a little more breathing room. A 10 year old would be discouraged by this book for sure. However, I will say that this book is one of the easier-to-understand books that I have come across in my quest for a rounder head. If I read it about 50 times then I think stuff might start clicking. Explaining the practical applications for the current concept being discussed would’ve been helpful. For instance, what is this circuit typically used for? Perhaps I haven’t given it a fighting chance. These are my initial impressions, though.
Rating: 3 / 5
I’m halfway thru this book, and looking for an alternative. The author doesn’t finish explaning a subject, instead gives an example that does not clearly explain the subject. Like another review, I’m looking for a book that shows the “how”, and especially the “why”, of electronics.
Rating: 1 / 5
This was the first book I ever read about electronics and It explained everything very clearly. It doesn’t repeat anything so you really have to take it slow and only read when you can concentrate. It does fly by basic concepts really fast but It worked for me. I read 4-5 pages every couple nights, and took notes on it. The author goes into detail, but he never repeats anything so you can’t just skim at all. I would buy it if I were you, or theres the library.
Rating: 5 / 5