A Summary of Electronics • Hacker News Board

creamytaco wrote: post #25

hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you made any public contributions we can critique?

Entirely irrelevant, empty deflection, to the points I made.

I think your criticism would have been better received if you hadn't phrased it so harshly (e.g. "terrible website structure").

Re: A Summary of Electronics

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Post by gumby » Sun, Sep 12, 2021, 5:05 PM UTC

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #28

dotancohen wrote: post #2

Very, very nice. Right from the beginning: > At a fundamental level, electronics is the branch of physics in charge of controlling the flow of charged particles, typically electrons. In practice, electronic engineering uses the highest level manifestations of said flow of charge to provide solutions to problems or needs. I absolutely love reading text that state what we already feel intuitively and present it as an e…

"...branch of physics in charge of... charge"? I'm not sure who or what the site is for. If you need a one-para explanation of what you can do with electronics - it doesn't really provide that, because it doesn't provide product examples. If you want a usable introduction to circuit theory - it doesn't provide that either. (Explaining what a transistor does is "beyond the scope of this text"? OK.) If you want to know…

As another poster put it: it’s an introductory overview just to give the reader a quick perspective on what I the topic is about, like an encyclopedia description.

I would expect a 12 year old to get something out of it, or an author who knew no physics but wanted to put a bit of electronics into their mystery novel.

There is an important place for overviews such as this.

Re: A Summary of Electronics

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Sep 12, 2021, 6:13 PM UTC

metaphor wrote: post #7

If the author is lurking, § 3.2.2.1 Passive Components [1] table headers are listed in English; § 3.2.2.2 Active Components [2] are listed in Spanish. I'm clearly not the target audience here, but I'd be lying if there wasn't a sense of conceit in its objectivity...kind of like those World Book encyclopedia entries I'd read for hours at a time as a kid, becoming aware of the existence of something, but only enough to…

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Re: A Summary of Electronics

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Post by GeorgeTirebiter » Sun, Sep 12, 2021, 7:47 PM UTC

lnsru wrote: post #18

The Art of Electronics, by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill is the way to go. It’s over 1000 pages and has an additional exercise book, but at the end one has some basic understanding what’s really going on.

I'd also suggest you get the 2nd edition. It had coverage of some circuits (I'm reminded of a particularly clean 2-transistor 'stiff' current source) that are not subsequently covered in the 3rd edition.)

ALSO: if you do buy the 3rd edition, if you are really into this stuff, be SURE to consider buying "AoE - the X Chapters" which is amazing detail on various corners of EE. There is a particularly beautiful explanation of how to control motors with PWM, why variable resistors to control speed works but not well, and some rules-of-thumb learned. And much more.

And finally, if you are Truly Serious (of course you are!) about learning this stuff: Get "Learning AoE" and buy the components they recommend and do the experiments.

No excuses! Do it! ;-)

Re: A Summary of Electronics

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Post by electroagenda » Sun, Sep 12, 2021, 9:47 PM UTC

metaphor wrote: post #7

If the author is lurking, § 3.2.2.1 Passive Components [1] table headers are listed in English; § 3.2.2.2 Active Components [2] are listed in Spanish. I'm clearly not the target audience here, but I'd be lying if there wasn't a sense of conceit in its objectivity...kind of like those World Book encyclopedia entries I'd read for hours at a time as a kid, becoming aware of the existence of something, but only enough to…

Thank you for pointing out the mistake with the languages. I will solve it when I get some time.

Re: A Summary of Electronics

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Post by electroagenda » Sun, Sep 12, 2021, 9:49 PM UTC

iammjm wrote: post #6

Thank's for making this. How can I export it as a single .pdf to read on my e-reader?

I will appreciate if you just redistribute the link instead. As you can see there is no ads in the webpage. But I intend to add them in the future. I won´t get rich but at least I will pay the server!

Re: A Summary of Electronics

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Post by mbrodersen » Mon, Sep 13, 2021, 3:06 AM UTC

I have a CS background and are interested in learning more about electronics. Is there a good beginners tool I can use to accurately simulate electronic diagrams and learn from?

Re: A Summary of Electronics

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Post by rramadass » Mon, Sep 13, 2021, 4:20 AM UTC

GeorgeTirebiter wrote: post #36

lnsru wrote: post #18

The Art of Electronics, by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill is the way to go. It’s over 1000 pages and has an additional exercise book, but at the end one has some basic understanding what’s really going on.

I'd also suggest you get the 2nd edition. It had coverage of some circuits (I'm reminded of a particularly clean 2-transistor 'stiff' current source) that are not subsequently covered in the 3rd edition.) ALSO: if you do buy the 3rd edition, if you are really into this stuff, be SURE to consider buying "AoE - the X Chapters" which is amazing detail on various corners of EE. There is a particularly beautiful explanati…

Is "AoE - the X Chapters" an extra addition to "AoE 3rd Edition" because everything could not be fitted into one book? Or is it something fundamentally different?

That would make it a set of 3 books to have viz. 1) AoE - 3rd edition 2) X-Chapters 3) Learning AoE.

Have i understood correctly?

PS: Does the 3rd edition omit a lot from the 2nd edition? What are the major differences?