I just took my physics II class and learned about basic circuits. I really enjoyed it and want to learn more! However, I’m having trouble finding a good quality book. Anyone have some suggestions?
Thanks!
Good basic circuit design books?
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Re: Good basic circuit design books?
#2How deep do you want to go? There's hobbyist books like Forrest Mims's classic "Getting Started in Electronics" or the more recent "Practical Electronics For Inventors". For a more in-depth treatment, you might take a look at Horowitz and Hill's "Art of Electronics".
Re: Good basic circuit design books?
#3Re: Good basic circuit design books?
#4How deep do you want to go? There's hobbyist books like Forrest Mims's classic "Getting Started in Electronics" or the more recent "Practical Electronics For Inventors". For a more in-depth treatment, you might take a look at Horowitz and Hill's "Art of Electronics".
Second the "Art of Electronics", although it's pretty technical
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#5Encyclopedia of Electronics in multi volumes
IMHO even better have PC installed with latest Kicad as it's growing flourishly, so ones uploaded many creative schematics and SPICE components
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#6Ed Lipiansky has written these two excellent books that cover electrical, electronics and computer design:
[1] Electrical, Electronics, and Digital Hardware Essentials for Scientists and Engineers
[2] Embedded Systems Hardware for Software Engineers
Re: Good basic circuit design books?
#7If you are looking for Electronic circuit theory, Milman & Halkias is a time tested classic. Or Boylestad & Nashelsky
Re: Good basic circuit design books?
#8If you are looking for Electronic circuit theory, Milman & Halkias is a time tested classic. Or Boylestad & Nashelsky
Milman and Halkias over Boylestad, any day.
M&H teaches in style. They have a nice pedagogical philosophy and upon reading, you will get stuff.
I never liked B&N.
Re: Good basic circuit design books?
#9You should definitely look at Practical Electronics for Inventors, 4e by Scherz, Monk (ISBN- 1259587541).
This is a fantastic book.
If you care about learning circuit design properly, you should do projects. Projects are absolutely necessary in learning Electronics.
Solve your real life problems with Electronics- no matter how trivial.
That is the way.
Re: Good basic circuit design books?
#10Do you mean circuit theory or applied circuits?
No idea for purely circuit theory. My textbooks were not great, but videos from 6.002 (a course at MIT) were a godsend.
Sedra/Smith is my recommendation for applied circuits. It's mostly amplifiers---still with a heavy emphasis on theory. At 1400 pages, it's really, really long. (A good portion of this is also taught in 6.002.)
The Art of Electronics is a gold mine of knowledge but very, very in-depth/technical. By chapter 4, you're analyzing a precision waveform generator with 3 ICs, a MOSFET, and a handful of passive components for biasing/filtering. Horowitz/Hill even recommend specific components (lots of tables) with explanations, and they point out some common circuit mistakes, workarounds, and improvements. Also, it's over 1,000 pages just in the main book. If I had to pick one book as the sole resource for an EE degree, it's this one.
As a supplement to books: Falstad's circuit simulator[1] because it is very easy to use (compared to SPICE) and has examples of nearly every circuit you would learn as an undergrad.