Basic Electronics Theory With Projects and Experiments [Paperback]

Delton Horn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1993 | ISBN-10: 0830642005 | ISBN-13: 978-0830642007 | Edition: 4th

A complete self-paced course and quick reference for hobbyists, students, and beginning-level technicians. Chapter-ending tests help readers gauge their progress. New editions include information on computerized test equipment, laser diodes, VMOS transistors, logic family interfacing, new computer microprocessors, and Digital Audio Tape (DAT).

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Product Details

• Paperback: 692 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 4th edition (September 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0830642005
• ISBN-13: 978-0830642007
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #609,446 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Disgusting, January 18, 2006

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Keith R. Fratus (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Basic Electronics Theory With Projects and Experiments (Paperback)

I won't go on forever listing all the issues with this book, as the general idea has already been conveyed by many other reviews, but the sheer number of typographical errors in this book render it completely useless. What good is a technical literature if you never know whether or not the information you are reading is accurate, or whether or not it is a typo? Many of the errors are just sheer stupidity, a complete lack of proofreading, or both. Even some critical equations, such as certain rearrangements of Joule's law, are stated incorrectly. I can not believe this book was allowed to be published. I am seriously considering returning it.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Number of errors renders this book useless, November 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Basic Electronics Theory With Projects and Experiments (Paperback)

This book at first glance appears to be a concise and informative introduction to the field of basic electronics. Upon closer inspection, however, numerous errors are apparent in the text. A number of stupid errors crept into this book at some point in its writing leading often to confusion as to what is being referred to. Too much time must therefore be spent trying to figure out what the author is talking about and this makes the book much less useful as a result. Sloppy proof reading (or maybe none at all) have allowed errors to slip through such as referring to the wrong question numbers in the self tests, screwed up equations (missing equals signs, subsitution of I2 for 12 twice in the first few chapters etc), numerous typos (fist instead of list appears in the introduction and things such as E3 being substituted for R3), ...I could go on and on. Anyway, this poor quality of the text makes this book sadly much less of interest and use to those who want to learn some basic electronics. The author makes some nice analogies early in the book that help aid the basic understandings and his style seems to be rather good other than the numerous typos and other errors. One thing that did bother me was his apparent love of rounding off numbers at the first opportunity. Granted, electronics is often a field where 5 decimal places are not required but while learning the theory it is important to know that the answer you get disagrees with the answer in the book because you have gotten the theory wrong and not because you failed to round off the numbers at each step to some random number of significant figures. All in all, knowing now what I know I would not have bought the book. If you can spend the time working around the errors, however, this book will provide a decent understanding of most of the fundamental concepts of electronics theory.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, March 3, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Basic Electronics Theory with Projects (Paperback)

Luckily I did not buy this book, I borrowed it. I was very excited when I first brought this book home, but after I actually got into it I started to realize that it is full of typographical errors. At first I thought it was me, I was pulling my hair out thinking that my calculator had broke or I was just "missing something". Even simple multiplication was wrong. For example in an equation the book (page 78) states that "159000 / (3.3 x 0.68)= 159000 / 206.04" How did the author come up with 206.04??? The last time I checked my calculator, 3.3 x 0.68 = 2.244. I have been through six chapters so far and there are MANY typo's. I wonder to myself if what I am learning is actually correct or is it a typo? What about the in-depth chapters? I will continue to read this book for a very basic overview of electronics but that's about it.