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Schaum's Outline of Basic Electricity

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This is a good book for electronics technicians who want to cover the basics of electricity that they would need in their assembly and test work. The first chapter is even a pretty good one on the very basic essence of electricity itself. However, this book was first published in 1983, and much has changed in the field of electronics/electricity technician work since that time. Thus, it might be worthwhile to wait and purchase the second edition which is already past due (Sept. 2006) for release. This older edition talks a great deal about the basics of electricity, wiring, basic calculations of current and voltage, and the use of various forms of instrumentation. This is definitely not something that engineers would benefit from. The exercises in many cases are "fill in the blank" type, and most calculations are extremely simple, requiring no more than a knowledge of the rules which the book provides and also of basic arithmetic.

Another book I had to buy this for one of my classes as an ME. Actually, this was for an ECE lab. The bookstore on campus sold it for almost twice as much. Great deal. Great price!

This book was very helpful in giving me a basic knowledge of electricity, although it doesn't show the proof of the formulas it introduces, but as it entitles to give a basic knowledge of electricity to the reader it could have been very confusing if it was written otherwise.