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This is the thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the hugely successful The Art of Electronics. Widely accepted as the authoritative text and reference on electronic circuit design, both analog and digital, this book revolutionized the teaching of electronics by emphasizing the methods actually used by circuit designers a combination of some basic laws, rules of thumb, and a large bag of tricks. The result is a largely nonmathematical treatment that encourages circuit intuition, brainstorming, and simplified calculations of circuit values and performance. The new Art of Electronics retains the feeling of informality and easy access that helped make the first edition so successful and popular. It is an ideal first textbook on electronics for scientists and engineers and an indispensable reference for anyone, professional or amateur, who works with electronic circuits.

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"Full of clever circuits and sharp insights, but with a surprising minimum of mathematics… The depth is genuine, as is the richness of examples, data and apt tricks."
Scientific American

"Far and away the finest book on the subject of electronics … in the last decade. I cannot recommend this book highly enough to anyone whose research or experiments require some electronics."
Optical Engineering

"A delightful book...The circuits actually work, the schematics are all readable."
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"This book is filled with a tremendous diversity of valuable information. More importantly, this book is a joy to read...It's not at all like studying--it's too much fun."
EDN (News Edition)

"This book provides a painless way to learn about electronic design. It is also a good read for those already experienced in electronics."
EDN (Magazine Edition)

"..it comes as close as any book we've seen to fulfilling the promise inherent in its title...written as though to educate the novice, but practicing engineers will encounter many useful tidbits they didn't know, hadn't thought about, or had long forgotten."
Analog Dialogue

"...a refreshingly simple, practical and comprehensive textbook on the subject of electronic circuit behavior and design...one of the few contemporary practical reference handbooks on electronic design basics."
Physics in Canada

"A lovely book, it covers a wealth of electronic topics in a very readable style."
Richard Morin, Sunexpert

"The second volume carries on une grande tradition as well as adding 400 new pages to the original (already massive) text. It is, without doubt, the book for the practical engineer. No cerebral theorizing here, no long sections of abstruse mathematical derivations; just page after page of solid empirical engineering. It is also light hearted and anecdotal, with some wonderful pages of bad ciruit 'howlers' that the authors have encountered."
John V. Hatfield, IJEEE

"...an excellent general electronic textbook."
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"The best self-teaching book and reference book in electronics… The beauty and fun of electronics shows through."
Radio Communication

"Another electronics textbook that became an international best-seller… the book is renowned for presenting the techniques that circuit designers actually use."
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The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the hugely successful first edition.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (July 28, 1989)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1125 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521370957
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521370950
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.41 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 2 x 10 inches

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Paul Horowitz (born 1942) is an American physicist and electrical engineer, known primarily for his work in electronics design, as well as for his role in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (see SETI).
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From the book's 1st page: Winfield Hill is by inclination an electronics circuit-design guru. After dropping out of the Chemical-Physics graduate program at Harvard University, and obtaining an E.E. degree, he began his engineering career at Harvard's Electronics Design Center. After 7 years of learning electronics at Harvard he founded Sea Data Corporation, where he spent 16 years designing instruments for Physical Oceanography. In 1988 he was recruited by Edwin Land to join the Rowland Institute for Science. The institute subsequently merged with Harvard University in 2003. As director of the institute's Electronics Engineering Lab he has designed some 500 scientific instruments. Recent interests include high-voltage RF (to 15 kV), high-current pulsed electronics (to 1200 A), low-noise amplifiers (to sub-n V and pA), and MOSFET pulse generators.
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Book for the EE or technician who wonders if there is a simpler, quicker way to design

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 6, 2012

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In my opinion this is not a total beginners book, as it is a shortcut for those who already know the theory..

However this book is perfect for the EE student or designer who thinks: "There must be an easier way to design this", If you are an engineering student, you must have wondered at some point if there is an easier way to design say a simple linear power supply without having to go through 12 different equations and 3 or 4 pages of solving algebra.

Now, im not saying you shouldnt know the formulas or theory , im saying that this book will help you do things easier and quicker, based on doing what has been proven to work, it will show you a lot of tricks that will be very useful if you already know some theory. In my opinion this book is the authors way of saying "ok, you worked throught the math, you know the theory, now... lets do something with it". Its a short cut, and a shortcut only makes the most sense when you already know the long path.

Im surprised by the bad reviews in this page by the physicists who complain that theres not much insight in this book, I dont know what kind of insight they expected from a book called "the ART of electronics", it would be like buying a book called "the Science of music" and complaining that theres too much theory and little on how to play a commercial pop song with your guitar.

This is a book that should be used along other books, this book wont teach you everything you need to know about electronics (but then again, no single book teaches you that). This book will make an EE or electronics technician life easier, but it wont make a theory hungry physicist happy, if you want to read another great book which among other things has tons of formula that you probably wont ever use in a design, then look at Sedra/Smith's "Microelectronic Circuits", but be aware that some people complain that its too complex and lacks practicality, cant make everyone happy...

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An indispensable reference work, and a model for how tech books should be written

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 3, 2011

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Others have already commented on the technical superiority of this book. I don't need to add to that chorus. But they're right.

Some have complained that the book was difficult to learn from, that it assumed too much prior knowledge. I disagree. The first chapters are written in such a way that anyone who passed high-school maths and physics should be able to understand them. Later chapters may require more outside knowledge, but for the most part the chapters build on each other.

H&H is a reference work that every electrical engineering professional should own - and should be intimately familiar with. It's as useful to an EE as Perry's is to a chemical engineer, or the CRC Handbook to a chemist.

One of the things I like about the book is that, where it lacks depth in a subject, it gives the reader some clues about where to go to find the answers he seeks. Being a good engineer doesn't so much depend on your knowledge as your ability to look things up.

Besides its exalted status as a bible among EEs, though, H&H deserves a great deal of praise for the quality of its writing. Most electrical and electronics books today, and way too many computer books as well, are written so poorly that it hurts to read them. Not so with Messrs. Horowitz and Hill. Their ability to turn a phrase, in order to clarify an esoteric point, is something that all tech writers should emulate. The only person whose words come close to H&H is the late, great Robert Pease - who, like these authors, also happened to be a master teacher.

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Omer Agmon

Great book for intermediate users

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 21, 2013

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I was under the impression that going through the book from A to Z would teach me all I need to know to start with electronic circuits. After reading the first 40 pages and skimming through the rest, it seems that many stages are assumed to be trivial, especially in the more mathematical parts. Although there's a nice appendix about complex numbers, the equations and different steps taken with them are trimmed to minimum (the book keep saying that if you don't understand the math completely it won't be a problem, but I felt obligation to mention that).

Also, it seems to lack many definitions, or to presume prior knowledge (you can see that by comparing the book's definitions for "impedence" to wikipedia's, or the defenition of "reactive circuit" for example).

Despite all that, I still rated it as 5 for two reasons:
1. As mentioned earlier, I'm still in the beginning of the book. What I read so far is very informative and I cannot deny the contribution this book provides.
2. The books is divided to "analog circuits" and "digital circuits". I've read on many websites correspondeces between professional electronic engineers, and there's seem to be consensus about the "digital circuits" part, which is too obsolete. Although I'm not against that, the principal is the same, and I don't think this should undertake from the general experience this book provides.

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Excellent, Needs no introduction

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 28, 2021

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If you're looking for a book on electronics, and you're anything more than a beginner, you simply cannot go wrong with this classic. It can serve as both a textbook and/or a reference. Plus, it will impress all your nerd friends when they see that you have AoE on your shelf or open on desk. Seriously, if there's any doubt, there is no doubt. This is the one you want.

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englishrupe01

An excellent handbook!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 10, 2019

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I am only a fairly novice hobbyist, but i find this book's style to be very approachable whilst containing a TON of valuable info, advice and learning. I bought the used second edition as i am a poor retired hobbyist but it was in great condition and contains the vast majority of the third edition anyway. I do have a pdf copy of the third edition but find it much easier to read a hard copy. I can use the pdf for the later modern chapters when i get that far...if i am still alive by then! This is a great bargain book that contains most you will ever need.

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Mr. Francis A. King

A better edition for analogue, outdated for digital

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 29, 2022

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I used to have a copy of this edition (silver), but then lost it. I bought a modern edition (gold), which is more up-to-date for digital techniques but which had a lot of the analogue techniques removed.

The book is quite old now. It may have damage to the spine and the pages.

R. L. Henderson

Enormous fund of knowledge

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 10, 2022

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This volume is an enormous fund of knowledge though I was slightly put of by the off-hand comments of the writer. It sounded like he was not taking it seriously

Oldsirhippy

A classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 12, 2014

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Read this almost from from cover to cover - except for the microprocessor section which is way out of date. Everyone I met who has a copy said that it was a great book and a classic. I now agree with them, it really is very good.
It would be nice to have it updated with current electronic technologies.

TIG

Nonetheless I think it is a great

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 6, 2014

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This book has been very helpful in biomedical engineering assignments at uni . I think it has all essential physics topics in it. The topics I have used it for weren't covered in depth but it was helpful in understanding it. Nonetheless I think it is a great book

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Jaz

The Art of Electronics

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 15, 2013

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I bought this book for my nephew after looking at all the other electronics books. This book remains as the bible of electronics. I used this book when I was studing electronics. It covers all of the fundamentals that anyone should know.

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