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Electrical Engineering 101, Second Edition: Everything You Should Have Learned in School...but Probably Didn't (w/ CD)
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Manufacturer: Newnes
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.3
EAN: 9781856175067
ISBN: 1856175065
Label: Newnes
Manufacturer: Newnes
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2008-12-05
Publisher: Newnes
Studio: Newnes
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Editorial Reviews:
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Written by an expert electronics engineer who enjoys teaching the practical side of engineering, this book covers all the subjects that a beginning EE needs to know: intuitive circuit and signal analysis, physical equivalents of electrical components, proper use of an oscilloscope, troubleshooting both digital and analog circuits, and much more! Even engineers with years in the industry can benefit from the compendium of practical information provided within.
CONTENTS:
Chapter 0: What is Electricity Really?
Chapter 1: Three Things They Should Have Taught in Engineering 101
Chapter 2: Basic Theory
Chapter 3: Pieces Parts
Chapter 4: The Real World
Chapter 5: Tools
Chapter 6: Troubleshooting
Chapter 7: Touchy-Feely Stuff
Appendix
(DRAFT)
*Covers the engineering basics that have been either left out of a typical engineer?s education or forgotten over time
*No other book offers a wealth of "insider information" in one volume, specifically geared to help new engineers and provide a refresher for those with more experience
*The accompanying CD-ROM contains a reference library of electronics information, with demo simulation software and engineering calculators
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Summary: How disappointing
Comment: As others have noted, the book needs a good deal of editing and proofreading. But that would not save it from its worst defects, lack of clarity and excessive focus on the author. He would have done better to take a more professional tone and devote more space to showing electronics as understandable and exciting. His attempts at folksy humor and reliance on clichés distract from what might be the basis of an interesting career. The last chapter portrays electrical engineering as work requiring survival skills, something to be endured, not loved.
In his book Practical Electronics for Inventors Paul Scherz inspired me to become more involved in electronics. He provided just enough math to entice me to learn the calculus and matrices needed to understand circuits. Tony Kuphaldt's online Lessons in Electric Circuits had the same effect. It has some of the most helpful material available on electronics I have been able to find. And it is well written, respectful of its reader and the history of electronics, and free. By example he led me to use spreadsheets and the Spice simulator as a way of gaining even more understanding.
As I read Electrical Engineering 101, I kept hoping I would find something useful before I got to the end. I was disappointed.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wish I'd have known these shortcuts in college!
Comment: This is what more educational institutions need - someone who can take a subject and simplify it so that it is easy to recall. I have a BSEE and these topics were always taught from just a mathematical standpoint. The author takes the subject and teaches it in a way that is easily memorable.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I wanted to like this book, but ...
Comment: I used to design circuits years ago and wanted a refresher for some aspects that I'd forgotten because I'm back into circuit design. I picked up this book hoping for a good refresher. Both the reader reviews and my initial scan of the book made it look promising.
But, after slogging through mis-spellings galore, an unclear writing style, sentences obviously missing key words, ambiguous sentences, etc, I gave up. After all, if I have to dig through the language to get to the message, I may as well go with a book that's deeper in the subject because I would get more information for the same effort.
I place responsibility for the poor quality on the publisher and editor(s) more than on the author. The publisher's job is to take a manuscript draft and turn it into a polished product to offer to the public. In this the publisher failed miserably.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Disappointing at best
Comment: Disappointing at best. Thought I would get a good overview of some ee fundamentals. The book is not thorough - even as an overview, not complete, and lacks form and structure. First, if you are going to espouse the merits of using 'units' to solve and make sense of engineering concepts and formulas, why not use them throughout the book in their proper capacity? And a then a little deeper probing into units would be helpful to show how everything works together. Second, not everything needs to be an analogy to some physical real-world counterpart. Third, if you are going to use analogies, use ones that make explicit conceptual sense and then show where they break down - as all analogies must (or they would be equalities) in application to the subject at hand. Forth, I really don't care about your personal work and life experiences that bear little attribute to the subject at hand. It could make for light reading if incorporated correctly but ends up more or less as page clutter.
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Summary: Nice idea but disappointing so far...
Comment: I'm an ME student who has just found himself thrown in the deep end on some EE courses. This book seemed to be the perfect supplement to the somewhat harder text books I have been given to study.
The book opens very nicely, friendly and chatty. I did though expect the book to spell everything out, but it seems to make many of the same mistakes my lecturers made. In the opening pages it starts talking about RLC circuits without any explanation of what one is. The author seems to be falling for the same trap engineers always fall for; assuming laymen (normal people) understand what they're talking about when they use abbreviations or new terminology.
I finally stopped reading and write and this review when I found a paragraph repeated twice on the same page. This book means well, but seems to full of oversights and poor editing leaving the reader somewhat disappointed by a book that promised not to be like their education up till now.
I will now return to reading as this book does offer many good explanations and insights. I will adjust this review if the book manages to redeem itself.
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