[sdiy] (OT?) FEEDBACK as a topic in electronics, music, science, etc?? BOOKS?

[Brock Russell]

"Anything" on feedback is a pretty big knowledge space.

The most succinct explanation of feedback theory relating to 
electronics that I have read is "Feedback and Stability Theory" from 
"Op Amps For Everyone". The single chapter is here, 
http://www.tij.co.jp/jp/lit/ml/sloa077/sloa077.pdf. The fundamentals 
are covered in an understandable manner in just seven pages.

Have you read Walt Jung's "IC Op-Amp Cookbook"? A  better,  perhaps 
redundant title might be, "Feedback Applications For Op-Amps". Walt 
rips through the theory pretty fast but he touches upon everything 
you need to consider for practical circuit designs and the entire 
book is really about feedback. Get an early printing of the third 
edition, the first printing from 1986 is probably best. Even Walt 
says not to buy the most recent edition as the print quality is crap.

To "learn and make connections", I would recommend first, Bob 
Widlar's app notes, almost all the big ideas in linear IC design 
started with Bob. Other than National AN-4 most of the early ones are 
hard to find. Second  would be Jim Williams. Read his app notes and 
build his circuits. You have to be an exceptional designer not to 
learn from his 
designs.  http://www.linear.com/doclist/?dt=2&au=Jim+Williams and 
http://web.mit.edu/klund/www/jw/jw-nsc.html

To try  to cover the "anything" space, the feedback idea book would 
be Douglas Hofstadter's "I Am a Strange Loop", possibly the most 
disjointed, flawed, and ultimately unsatisfying read on feedback 
loops that I have encountered but it's a best seller from a brilliant 
guy so make of it what you will.

More?

Brock

At 04:27 AM 07/09/2011, you wrote:
>Maybe this is off-topic, but I am looking for ANY book 
>recommendations (or websites) on  the topic of FEEDBACK
>( could be anything from video feedback to neural networks to guitar 
>feedback to servos to a book on FM  oscillators)
>
>COULD BE an IDEA book or a technical book
>
>just trying to LEARN and make some new connections between ideas
>
>
>
>thanks!!!!
>
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