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Electrical Engineering 101: Everything You Should Have Learned in School...but Probably Didn't [Paperback]

Darren Ashby

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Aug 26 2011 0123860016 978-0123860019 3

Electrical Engineering 101 covers the basic theory and practice of electronics, starting by answering the question "What is electricity?" It goes on to explain the fundamental principles and components, relating them constantly to real-world examples. Sections on tools and troubleshooting give engineers deeper understanding and the know-how to create and maintain their own electronic design projects. Unlike other books that simply describe electronics and provide step-by-step build instructions, EE101 delves into how and why electricity and electronics work, giving the reader the tools to take their electronics education to the next level. It is written in a down-to-earth style and explains jargon, technical terms and schematics as they arise. The author builds a genuine understanding of the fundamentals and shows how they can be applied to a range of engineering problems.

This third edition includes more real-world examples and a glossary of formulae. It contains new coverage of:

  • Microcontrollers
  • FPGAs
  • Classes of components
  • Memory (RAM, ROM, etc.)
  • Surface mount
  • High speed design
  • Board layout
  • Advanced digital electronics (e.g. processors)
  • Transistor circuits and circuit design
  • Op-amp and logic circuits
  • Use of test equipment
  • Gives readers a simple explanation of complex concepts, in terms they can understand and relate to everyday life.
  • Updated content throughout and new material on the latest technological advances.
  • Provides readers with an invaluable set of tools and references that they can use in their everyday work.

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"This is a great book because the author is taking basic theory and providing the reader with some good intuitive tools to gain a foothold on how components work.

Many textbook authors in the circuit analysis arena (or electrical engineering as a broader area) tend to do one of 3 things: a) Over explain a concept until the reader loses track of what he is doing b) Skip too many steps in showing the derivation of a formula or the solving of a problem. c) Place more emphasis on the mathematics associated with specific problem rather than the problems significance.

The author clearly avoids these traps. His text is reminiscent of a bygone era where engineering books actually sought to explain concepts and their significance."

"I would recommend this book to anyone interested in electronics. This book helped me understand concepts that I struggled with in class and for years after school."

"This is what more educational institutions need - someone who can take a subject and simplify it so that it is easy to recall. I have a BSEE and these topics were always taught from just a mathematical standpoint. The author takes the subject and teaches it in a way that is easily memorable."

"My background is Mechanical Engineering and I found this book to be extremely useful and interesting. I purchased this book in order to get a better understanding of the EE basics. Like most universities a ME takes an EE 101 course that is essentially a weed out course. The problem with a weed out course is that in the end you don't have a solid understanding of what the underlying basics are. If this sounds familiar, you should definitely buy this book."

"This book is an easy read after you've gone through EE. Makes you see the forest from the trees. Spend so much time in early circuits classes just trying to figure out currents, gains and voltages that all I could do was the math (the trees). This book has helped not only to review concepts, but to help me see what these components are doing (the forest). Enjoying the book."

"I enjoyed this book very much. I especially liked the software on the CD, which had nice tools to work with. I enjoyed the clarity in the writing and the informal style. I was having trouble grasping concepts in some of the more formal books on EE, which made it sound more like magic than science. The way the author related EE concepts to mechanical ones helped tremendously. I recommend this book highly, if you are new to electronics."

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This book gives new graduate engineers, as well as experienced engineers who need a refresher,
a leg up with their on-the-job training. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The goal of this book is to help the reader gain an intuition about electrical engineering. April 14 2012
By Patrick Regan - Published on Amazon.com
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Electrical Engineering 101 surprised me. The author, rather than beset the reader with a fact after fact, takes the approach of teaching you how to intuit information about electrical engineering by presenting, in a top down fashion, the most important things to think about when designing circuits. For example, the author emphasizes the importance of Ohm's Law illustrating why it is so important with several examples. In addition, the author likens the basic aspects of circuits: current, voltage, capacitors, resistors and inductors to their analogous counterparts in physics, for example he likens resistors to friction and capacitors to springs and inductors to mass. This combination of encouraging the development of an intuition about electrical engineering and a clear prioritizing of the important over the less important permeates this book. I am really enjoying reading this book and have already learned a lot about electrical engineering. Before reading this book I knew a lot of facts about electrical engineering but I was not able to connect them together. Electrical Engineering 101 has helped me pull all these facts together.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The basics for the not so newb Sep 20 2012
By SkyeNoir - Published on Amazon.com
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From my hubby, who I got this:

Like much of the math, biology, etc that we've al forgotten since highschool, electrical engineering principles can get lost if not use for some time. I found Electrical Engineering 101 to be a great way to refresh my memory of all the stuff that seems to have been offloaded over the years. It covers all the major topics in a down to earth, easy to understand way. I'd be willing to bet that one with no background at all could pick up the book and learn the basic behind EE. Several of my coworkers have noticed it on my desk and thumbed through it, and I later spotted a copy on their desks as well.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Good overview of an important subject Nov 16 2011
By Mike Birman - Published on Amazon.com
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I'm not an electrical engineer nor do I aspire to be. Nevertheless, I am surrounded by objects whose functions are crucial to my daily life but whose inner workings are both off-limits and mysterious. These objects include computers of various shapes and sizes, video screens whose complexity and importance keep growing, audio and video equipment whose functionality keeps increasing even as their weight continues to diverge (my audio components gain mass with inverse proportionality to my video equipment). Some knowledge of how these things function and the theory behind it seems absolutely necessary even if that knowledge must by necessity be fairly rudimentary. Electrical Engineering 101 provides a good solid overview of the subject without getting lost in arcane details that would only confuse the layman.

Beginning with a discussion of electricity, it progresses to the theoretical principles that underlay the various devices and gadgets that are the current architecture of our lives. I was curious about the inner workings of a cell phone and the system that makes it all work so I looked it up in here and found the answers I sought quickly and clearly. This experience was repeated on several occasions when encountering other topics. Although the book is slightly technical, if you confront it with common sense and the will to understand even if it means re-reading some passages, there is nothing that the average intelligent reader will find impenetrable. For the dedicated and determined neophyte Electrical Engineering 101 is a nice introduction to a vast and often difficult subject.

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