[sdiy] Best kept secret of amazing electronics books

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On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 15:14, Thomas Strathmann <thomas at pdp7.org> wrote:
> 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.

What book do you suggest that does that?
I'm very good with my maths...

Thanks,
D.

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