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Oscilloscope Guide

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This book may be helpful if you've never used an oscilloscope before and don't know where to start. If you've used a scope before I don't think you'll see anything in here you don't already know. Much of the information is taken from free literature available on the Tektronix website, (...)

Only the most basic information, much of it from TEK. Numerous typos and spelling errors, redundent (and trivial) information, make this a bad buy. I just bought an OScope and this book was of minimal help teaching me how to use it.

Poor writing, poor editing, minimal information, crude hand drawings. I was amazed that such a low quality publication could be published by Howard W. Sams, with a great reputation in years gone by for top notch technical publications.

The book does a good job at covering the basics (really basic), but since chapter 1 you start noticing a lot of typos, figures don't match the text explanations, some test answers are wrong, etc. It looks like they finished the book in a hurry, the editors did not do their job. I would wait for a second edition if it ever gets printed.

This book attempts to teach electronics through the oscilloscope and poorly. It tells you to turn on the oscilloscope then do math and turn a knob, then sine wave wise only, you learn little oscilloscope and little electronics, a complete waste. It is full of typos as if someone wrote it on a bench during a lunch break. This book is meant to sell a DR. wrote this for Big Sams. It really just says look we Pub., a oscilloscope book and the Author , he knows electronics. He writes like a retard, so he must be brillant. Don't buy it because the typos are like 1+2=4

Banks'book Oscilloscope Guide uses large print and offers little information and there are mistakes...There is some useful information there but not worth the high price.

Very little detailed information, much too basic even for someone just learning how to use an oscilloscopes. Illustrations are hard to read.

This book has some basic knowledge of the use of an oscilloscope, but not even enough to get started on. I'm just starting to use oscilloscopes, and I know more already then was in this book. Granted, there were a few things worth knowing in the book;...Most of the examples couldn't even be seen because they are so small, and I noticed several typo's. There could be typo's regarding really important aspects of using the oscilloscope, we'll never know.

This book is not worth the money. You can get through the 150 pages of the book in a few hours. The book is very basic. However, the author finds a way to make the book hard to read because Figures relating to the text are on different pages. In general, you can find better information on the net. This book is not a keeper.

Is it asking too much of an editor to simply read a book that has their name in the credits? The typos are many and often mislead the reader into a bad understanding of the material. The quizzes are impossible to ace because each one has at least two questions that are either written wrong or stated incorrectly in the Answers section. I should have read the reviews before buying, my bad. If society were rekindled using books like this, we'd all be using quill pens and torches.