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The Art of Electronics Student Manual

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Either use this manual with another text (such as The Art of Electronics - Horowitz and Hill) or with a good instructor, or both. It does an excellent job of taking you step by step through many circuit building techniques that are essential to electronics and it is a good reference manual. My only complaint is that it tends to pose interesting questions for the reader without ever following up or guiding the reader towards a conclusion. It's good to get you thinking, but unless you have time to delve into every detail with your own investigations, it can be frustrating not to get a clear answer to vague questions and sinarios. Overall, it is a great book and essential for laboratory use. The authors are comical, but not overly so, thus making the venture of reading this book a delight.

Practical hands on, a step above the BUG BOOK series with lots of goodies in the way of real circuits and diagrams that are very easily understood.. True you'll run into 'OL Thevenin , but luckily the book is written so heavy math understanding is not needed.. Read this in 1990 and still refer to it , nice "book" ( i.e. manual to actually design and use circuits ) . I'm trying to locate his "Laboratory Manual" ( I like Z80's better than that Motorola stuff).

This book can stand on its own -- but the synergy created with its "big brother" makes it fly!
The physical details of the circuits described will become abundantly clear to the reader -- nothing is left hidden, and performing the lab steps cements this in place.

Laboratory Electronics
(Physics 123 @ Harvard College)

Professors Jay Ewing and Thomas C. Hayes Teaching Fellow Nicholas Judson

A lab-intensive introduction to electronic circuit design. Develops circuit intuition and debugging skills through daily hands-on lab exercises, each preceded by class discussion with minimal use of mathematics and physics. The treatment moves quickly from passive circuits, through design with discrete transistors, then concentrates on application of integrated operational amplifiers to make a variety of circuits including integrators, oscillators, regulators, and filters. The digital half of the course emphasizes the use of programmable logic devices, microprocessors, and microcontrollers, while treating issues that arise in interfacing both analog and digital devices to a computer. Provides an overview of radio and television, digital audio, signal averaging, and construction techniques.

Taught by co-authors of the best-seller "The Arts of Electronics", Thomas C. Hayes. And let nice guy Nick debugging your wiring, What more can you ask for? Watch out though, the course load is extremely heavy (Some people equate it to 1.5 courses.) I found the course enormously useful if you are to encounter circuit design in your future studies.

I have used this book in support of an electrical engineering curriculum and it really has helped me take the theory into the practical realm of things. Well worth it....

Excellent inroduction for persons eager to learn how to design useful circuits and they have a background in Physics and Calculus. It is not an engineering course for elecrical engineers but it is useful for non-electrical engineering majors. Studying the text THE ART OF ELECTRONICS and the STUDENT MANUAL FOR THE ART OF ELECTRONICS someone will acquire working knowledge in electronics.

The Art of teach with fun & contundent style. For artists of electronics, or "open-mind", the better election.