Recommend a good Basic Electronics Book

[blues junkie]

I want to brush up on my electronics knowledge,can someone recommend a good Basic electronics booK?

I was going to get "The Art Of Electronics" by Horowitz

Would that be a good one to get or is there other's that would be better?

Thanks.

[Gibsonman63]

The Art of Electronics is a good book to have and it covers anything you would ever want to know, but it may be a bit overwhelming for trying to get back to basics.

I can't remember how it is titled, but there is a good one put out by the US Navy years ago that is floating around the internet now. Maybe someone has a link.

[Randy Magee]

Here's a link to the Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series:

http://www.hnsa.org/doc/#neets

[surfsup]

http://books.google.com/books/about/Pra ... D0SD1-1YwC

Practical Electronics for Inventors. Very thorough basic book.

[M Fowler]

https://tubeamparchive.com/viewtopic.php?t=9023

[Cantplay]

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John

[The New Steve H]

I have been gone for a while because I felt like I knew absolutely nothing about electronics, and I wanted to start getting back up to speed.

The young guys who got me started on amp-building really created a monster. I'm putting my math and physics library back together, and I study this stuff all the time. I can actually solve a differential equation again. Sometimes.

I have a pile of books now. Two that have been very useful are the Electric Circuits Problem Solver (0878915176) and Schaum's Outline of Basic Circuit Analysis (0070478244). They won't teach you how tubes work, but you can't understand tubes until you know the basics. For tubes, I really like the Navy book someone else has probably already mentioned.

There are a lot of fantastic math, physics, and engineering videos on Youtube. You can pretty much go to college for the cost of an Internet connection. Some of the instructors are considerably better than some I had in college and grad school. The Indians are putting a whole catalog online.

If anyone needs a copy of Brown & Churchill, I ordered an extra accidentally. Don't trample each other trying to get it. I know it's tempting.

[diagrammatiks]

I want to brush up on my electronics knowledge,can someone recommend a good Basic electronics booK?

I was going to get "The Art Of Electronics" by Horowitz

Would that be a good one to get or is there other's that would be better?

Thanks.

depends really on what you mean by basic. what's your goal? tube circuits?

the art of electronics is good but only the first chapter is really basic.

if you're talking about ac/dc theory, parts, voltage dividers, current and voltage theory

I think the make magazine guide to electronics is pretty good and so is the all new electronics self teaching guide.

[The New Steve H]

Oh, by the way: The Art of Electronics is a horror. One man's opinion. Much of it is written in nerdese. There is some jargon you will never understand unless an EE explains it to you. It's the text my electronics professor used when I was in college. He was a great lecturer, so I pretty much let Horowitz and Hill molder in a corner.

The Schaum outline is not supposed to be a real textbook, but the explanations are pretty good. The Problem Solver is much better for problems, as might be expected.

I found some good books by authors named Boylestad (Introductory Circuit Analysis) and Thomas L. Floyd (Principles of Electric Circuits), but I have not gotten into them deeply enough to recommend them.

[diagrammatiks]

i like the art of electronics.

definitely not for beginners though.

[vibratoking]

The NEET stuff is good for LEARNING.

The Art of Electronics is a good reference book, but I would not recommend it for learning anything. I can't imagine anyone using it as a text book.

[Aurora]

"The Art of Electronics " is is one of the classical text books used by quite a number of colleges world wide these days. A bit heavy without tuition for a total beginner, though... any book intended for a high school electronics course is probably better for starters...

tons of good info, here:
http://www.tubebooks.org/technical_books_online.htm

The Jack Darr book is also quite good, particularly for toob starters...
http://www.diyguitarist.com/Misc/J_Darr.htm

[vibratoking]

"The Art of Electronics " is is one of the classical text books used by quite a number of colleges world wide these days.

Yes, normally with the student manual. Without the student manual, it is a terrible textbook IMO. Also, the frequency of its use doesn't necessarily make it good.

[Prairie Dawg]

The Jack Darr book is also quite good, particularly for toob starters...
http://www.diyguitarist.com/Misc/J_Darr.htm

This book was best ordered in the reprint-that's where you get all the early solid state schematics that are worth the price of admission. The twenty-five bucks I spent on it was worth it to get a schematic of my Baldwin guitar amp. Cause it's broke.

[The New Steve H]

The big problem with writing technical and scientific texts is that once you have the knowledge required to write one, you tend to lose the ability to relate to people who don't have that knowledge. And you may also find yourself collecting Bill Shatner's kidney stones.