Electrical Engineering 101: Everything You Should Have Learned in School but Probably Didn't
by Darren Ashby
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Author: Darren AshbyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-12-13
ISBN: 0750678127
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Newnes
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Book Review: How disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars
As others have noted, the book needs a good deal of editing and proofreading. But that would not save it from its worst defects, lack of clarity and excessive focus on the author. He would have done better to take a more professional tone and devote more space to showing electronics as understandable and exciting. His attempts at folksy humor and reliance on clich?s distract from what might be the basis of an interesting career. The last chapter portrays electrical engineering as work requiring survival skills, something to be endured, not loved.
In his book Practical Electronics for Inventors Paul Scherz inspired me to become more involved in electronics. He provided just enough math to entice me to learn the calculus and matrices needed to understand circuits. Tony Kuphaldt's online Lessons in Electric Circuits had the same effect. It has some of the most helpful material available on electronics I have been able to find. And it is well written, respectful of its reader and the history of electronics, and free. By example he led me to use spreadsheets and the Spice simulator as a way of gaining even more understanding.
As I read Electrical Engineering 101, I kept hoping I would find something useful before I got to the end. I was disappointed.
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