Re: [TCML] Electrical Engineering Textbook

[Davetracer@xxxxxxx]

I'm currently looking at "All New Electronics Self-Teaching Guide", from  
Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-28961-7,
400+ pages, $34.99 at a retail shop (MicroElectronics).
 
Each chapter has a self-test at the end; answers in the back.
 
Here's a quick chapter rundown (I'll give everything in first chapter to  
give you an idea what's in the rest)
 
1. DC Review and Self Test (Current Flow, Ohms Law, Resistors in series and  
parallel, power, small currents, the Graph of Resistance, The Voltage Divider, 
 Switches, Capacitors in DC Circuits, Summary.
2. The Diode
3. Intro to the Transistor includes jFETs
4. Transistor as a switch
5. AC Pre-Test and Review
6. AC in Electronics
7. Resonant Circuits
8. Transistor Amplifiers
9. Oscillators
10. The Transformer
11. Power Supply Circuits
12. Conclusion and final self-test
 
You can run various experiments on common components, use graph paper to  
plot the charge/discharge of a capacitor, and so forth.
 
You really could do worse.
 
 In my Electrical Engineering class in college, our textbook was just  a 
loose draft of the professor's to-become-a-textbook, riddled with errors, and  
particularly errors in the questions he assigned. It was our job to get rid of  
the bugs.
 
Of course, I miss the Heathkit series the most . . . 
 
 
 -- David Small
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 12/20/2008 12:33:27 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Basic AC  Circuits (#27025) by Stanley Fulton and John C. Rawlins is a  good
start.  It's a SAMS publication in their basic electricity  series.

Then, the ARRL Radio Amateur's Handbook (free at most local  libraries) also
covers EE in good form.

Dr. Resonance

On Fri,  Dec 19, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Anthony Etersque  <etersque26@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Can anyone please  recommend a good electrical engineering textbook? I've
> searched online  through so many textbook catalogs, but none seem to have a
> general  textbook on EE; they all seem to be books focused on specialized
>  fields. Thank you
>
>  Anthony


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