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Like London buses, you wait a long time for one good book and another shows up straight after. Following on from "62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer by Randy Sarafan", another worthwhile book has crossed my desk, Basic Electronics for Scientists and Engineers. This is not aimed at the younger reader, like before, but is a weightier tome covering "basic electronics for undergraduate students in science and engineering".
According to the book's blurb:
Ideal for a one-semester course, this concise textbook covers basic electronics for undergraduate students in science and engineering. Beginning with the basics of general circuit laws and resistor circuits to ease students into the subject, the textbook then covers a wide range of topics, from passive circuits through to semiconductor-based analogue circuits and basic digital circuits. Using a balance of thorough analysis and insight, readers are shown how to work with electronic circuits and apply the techniques they have learnt. The textbook's structure makes it useful as a self-study introduction to the subject. All mathematics is kept to a suitable level, and there are several exercises throughout the book. Password-protected solutions for instructors, together with eight laboratory exercises that parallel the text, are available online at www.cambridge.org/Eggleston.It gets a general thumbs up of approval from our Technology Editor, Steve Bush, but there are two important caveats.
First, the term "basic" is relative - the book is serious and weighty in intent, with formulas, diagrams and circuits rather than user-friendly graphics, cartoons, etc. Secondly, the book is not cheap - £33.25 on Amazon currently!
Paperback: 266 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (28 April 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521154308
ISBN-13: 978-0521154307
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