[sdiy] Best kept secret of amazing electronics books

[Thomas Strathmann]

On 11/15/10 14:42 , Dan Snazelle wrote:
> i am in heaven right now reading through a previously unknown to me gem, not the art of electronics, but the art of electronics student manual!!
>
> 600 pages of in depth teaching...excellent sections on transistors, logic, opamps
>
> Written in a way that is a joy to read. Gets in depth and without too much math, which is good for me. I stayed up all night excited about learning ( it has a very conversational style)

I did not know this book either. It addresses one of the issues I had 
with Art of Electronics: Sometimes it's a very light on descriptions or 
explanations. The Student Manual seems to fix this. But I find it 
irritating that a book about electronics has so little maths. You can 
write in such a way that (a) the math content is not essential to the 
main text, but rather an addition for those who want an in-depth 
understanding, and (b) people who don't know about things like 
differential equations can learn the basics from an engineer's point of 
view along the way. Solving a linear ODE with fixed coefficients is just 
applying a recipe or algorithm if you will and until I learned about it 
I never had the feeling that I understand even the most basic circuits 
with capacitors or inductors.

On a slightly different note: Who wants to wager that the next edition 
of Art of Electronics comes out next year? ;-)

	Thomas