Tab Electronics Guide to Understanding Electricity and Electronics
by
G. Randy Slone
2nd edition, Copyright 2000 McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
ISBN:
[0071360573]
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) for eBook:
[10.1036/0071386653]
Book cover image:
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Description (from the publisher):
All-inclusive introduction to electricity and electronics. For the true beginner, there's no better introduction to electricity and electronics than TAB Electronics Guide to Understanding Electricity and Electronics, Second Edition.
Randy Slone's learn-as-you-go guide tells you how to put together a low-cost workbench and start a parts and materials inventory--including money-saving how-to's for salvaging components and buying from surplus dealers. You get plain-English explanations of electronic components-resistors, potentiometers, rheostats, and resistive characteristics-voltage, current, resistance, ac and dc, conductance, power...the laws of electricity...soldering and desoldering procedures...transistors...special-purpose diodes and optoelectronic devices...linear electronic circuits...batteries...integrated circuits...digital electronics...computers...radio and television...and much, much more. You'll also find 25 complete projects that enhance your electricity/electronics mastery, including 15 new to this edition, and appendices packed with commonly used equations, symbols, and supply sources.
Table of Contents
* Chapter 1: Getting Started.
* Chapter 2: Basic Electrical Concepts.
* Chapter 3: The Transformer and AC Power.
* Chapter 4: Rectification.
* Chapter 5: Capacitance.
* Chapter 6: Transistors.
* Chapter 7: Special-Purpose Diodes and Optoelectronic Devices.
* Chapter 8: Linear Electronic Circuits.
* Chapter 9: Power Control.
* Chapter 10: Field-Effect Transistors.
* Chapter 11: Batteries.
* Chapter 12: Integrated Circuits.
* Chapter 13: Digital Electronics.
* Chapter 14: Computers.
* Chapter 15: More about Inductors and Capacitors.
* Chapter 16: Radio and Television.
Review by mctylr
I like this book because it covers more topics and is neatly layed out compared to Getting Started in Electronics by Forrest Mims, and is more hands-on and less verbose than Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics by Stan Gibilisco.
It includes basic projects such as building a lab power supply, and several audio related projects such as an amplifier and tone control. This projects tie into the chapter's content well, and Slone gives enough details to help the reader to electronics actually successful build the project themselves.
