Books for Electronic Technicians, Hobbyists, and Experimenters

Books for Electronic Technicians, Students & Hobbyists

• Electronic Projects using Electronics Workbench
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-M. P. Horsey / Paperback 224 pages, BK&CD-ROM / Published August 1998
This comprehensive beginners guide shows how to use the experimenters simulation software, Electronics Workbench, to design, test, and modify electronic circuits on a computers screen before building them. The inclosed CD-ROM contains sample circuits and answers to the exercises.
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• Advanced Electronic Projects
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-Stephen Kamichik / Paperback 123 pages, 2nd edition / Published June 1998
For the experienced electronic technican or hobbyist the projects are interesting and useful. These include a stereo preamplifier, bipolar power supplies, a digital voltmeter, and more.
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• Digital Electronics: For the Hobbyist, Technician & Engineer
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-Stephen Kamichik / Paperback 150 pages / Published March 1996
This is an excellent introductory guide to digital electronics. This book was written assuming that the reader has little knowledge about digital electronics. Circuits studied include logic gates, flip-flops, and counters.
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• Electronics: A Self Teaching Guide
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-Harry Kybett / Paperback 312 pages, 2nd edition / Published March 1986
This is practical well written book that covers the basics of electronics. Assumes that the read has an understanding of basic electricity.
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• Basic Electronics ~Usually Ships Within 24 Hours
-Bernard Grob / Hardcover 480 pages, 8th Edition / Published December 1996
This well written textbook presents an excellent coverage of basic electronics.
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• Basic Electricity ~Usually Ships Within 2-3 Days
-U.S. Navy / Paperback 300 pages, 2nd Edition / Published March 1975
This long standing textbook is/was used in the military electronic basic schools and provides a through coverage of the basic theory of electricity and its applications.
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Basic Electricity: A Self-Teaching Course ~Usually Ships Within 24 Hours
-Charles William Ryan / Paperback 304 pages,2nd Edition / Published October 1986
You can teach yourself all about electricty. This This self-teaching book is a easy to use guide that takes you through the basics of electrity and familiarizes you with the working of voltage, current and resitance, power calculations, direct current, and alternating current electricty. Covers series and parallel circuitry, and inductance and capacitance theory. Through step-by-step problem solving you will gain a true understanding of the basic rules, laws and concepts and equations of electric circuits. Contains self tests at the end of each chapter and a end of course exam.
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• Basic Electronics Course ~Usually Ships Within 24 Hours
-Norman H. Crowhurst / Paperback 430 pages, 2nd Edition / Published October 1987
This book presents a comprehensive study of electronics and defines every aspect of electrical behavior and state-of-the-art electronics. Explains the essential basics of electronics theory and practice, properties of resistance, electron flow, power calculations, the parts of electronic circuits and the components, and the basic concepts of mathematics of electronics. Each chapter end quiz helps to clarify what each topic you choose to enter a specialized electronics field.
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• Beginner's Guide to Reading Schematics
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-Robert J. Traister, et al / Paperback 129 pages, 2nd edition / Published May 1991
The ability to read and to understand electronic schematics is vital to electronic technicians, hobbists, and anyone working with electronic circuitry.
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• Schematic Diagrams: The Basics of Interpretation and Use
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-J. Richard Johnson / Paperback 196 pages / Published October 1994
This book is an excellant reference and guide for technicians and for anyone that need to fully understand schematics.
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• Test Procedures for Basic Electronics
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-Irving M. Gottlieb / Paperback 356 pages / Published December 1994
This guide presents test procedures intended for a variety of electronic test practitioners.
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• Digital Electronics Guidebook: With Projects! ~Usually Ships Within 24 Hours
-Michael Predko / Paperback 528 pages / Published November 2001
This mini-course will give your the tools to master basic digital electronics. Designed for the electronics hobbyists, and beginning electronic technician students, who want to understand digital logic and build their own low-cost digital logic circuits. Contains than hands-on 20 projects for designing, constructing, using, and interfacing easy-to-build electronic circuitry. This guidebook provides complete instructions for setting up your own digital electronics lab. Construct your own simple 8-bit computer and learn how computers really work. Provides instructions, tips and techniques for making electronic circuits that switch, count, measure, control, make decisions, and provides explanations of basic electronics and the required math. Get expert guidance on creating, prototyping, and debugging electronic applications of your own design.
Also contains useful tables, data and important formulas.
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• PC PHD: Inside PC Interfacing ~Usually Ships Within 24 Hours
-Michael Predko / Paperback 960 pages, BK & CD-ROM edition / Published August 1999
This book provides detailed explanations of PC operations, from both a hardware and software perspective. Includes detailed coverage of all interfaces, including parallel port, serial port (RS232), the USB, I/O buses (ISA, PCI, IDE, and SCSI), and mouse and keyboard ports. Shows you how to work with memory and I/O space mapping, parallel ports, serial ports (RS-232), expansion busses (ISA, MCA, EISA, and PCI), disk busses (IDE, EIDE and SCSI), the joystick interface and the new USB. Plus experiments, architecture, instruction sets, and the applications of over 30 projects. Including source code in 8086 assembler, and covers Visual Basic, Visual C++, and LabView.
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• Programming & Customizing PICmicro Microcontrollers ~Usually Ships Within 24 Hours
-Michael Predko / Paperback 680 pages, BK & CD-ROM Edition / Published
This excellent book details the features of the PICmicro controllers and shows how to use these chips to access and control many different devices. Provides a comprehensive coverage of the PICMicros hardware architecture and software applications which nicely complements the many experiments and projects, making this a complete, "Learn as You Do-It", home workshop course. Extensive material is also included to help you to debug your own applications from both the hardware and softwere perspectives. Includes 10 new projects and 20 new experiments. And a PCB for programming the PICmiro, Advanced PICmiro programming topics including Macros, High-Level Languages, and Interrupt Handlers. This programmer will have the capability to program all the PICMicros used by the application.
The CD-ROM contains the source code for all applications and experiments, plus software tools for applications and the complete data sheets for the PIC family in PDF format.
The Appendices contains an introduction to electronics and programming, engineering formulas and PICmicro resourses, including web sites.
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• Practical Electronics for Inventors ~Usually Ships Within 24 Hours
-Paul Scherz / Paperback 528 pages / Published April 2000
This useful guide to electronics for engineers, hobbyists, and students, presents nformation on particular electronic circuits and components without overloading readers with to much technical detail. Covering basic electronics theory and circuitry. The basic circuit components discussed include semiconductors, optoelectronics, integrated circuits (ICs), operational amplifiers, filters, oscillators and timers, voltage regulators, audio electronics, digital electronics, DC motors, RC servos, and includes a complete chapter on the latest microcontrollers. Provides clear, detailed instructions on how to turn theoretical ideas into working electronic equipment and useful gadgets. Includes over 750 hand-drawn illustrations.
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• Rf Circuit Design ~Usually Ships Within 24 hours
-Christopher Bowick /Paperback 176 pages/ Published March 1997
This book is for the electronic technican working with RF circuits, or a tinker who has Rf design experience and is an expert in the field of RF circuit design. And also for an engineer needing a good Rf circuit reference book. This text provides complete design procedures for multiple-pole Butterworth, Chebyshev, and Bessel filters. Discusses capacitors, inductors, and other components and explains their behavior at RF frequencies in detail. Covers solid-state RF circuit design except for oscillators and signal generation. Covers small and large signal amplifiers, impedance matching networks, filters, Smith charts, and more.
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• Practical Rf Power Design Techniques ~Usually Ships Within 24 Hours
-Irving M. Gottlieb / Paperback 290 pages / Published March 1993
This excellant book provides Rf circuit designers with all of the hands-on instructions and information required to design well functioning circuitry. Gottlieb thoroughly explains the theory behind RF circuit design and operation, with supporting discussions of the principles and formulas. Many explanation examples are taken from practical real-world applications. This book is also a good reference for the library of any engineer, electronic technician, or student who wants to gain a solid understanding of RF amplifiers, filters and impedance-matching networks.
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• The ARRL Antenna Book ~Usually Ships Within 3-5 Days
-R. Dean Straw, Editor / Paperback 819 pages, 19th Edition with CD / Published September 2000
This book covers a lot of important information on antennas for the HAM operator and other radio users. Includes information on how to safely work on a tower, antenna theory, how to build antena, computer modeling, RF exposure limits, transmission lines antenna tuners, and a lot more. The CD-ROM comes with some of the programs mentioned in the text.
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• Mastering Technical Mathematics ~Usually Ships Within 24 Hours
-Stan Gibilisco, Bob Goodman, Norman H. Crowhurst
Paperback 567 pages / Published May 1999
This book is a practical self-teaching guide to technical mathematics, covering basic arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. Contains step-by-step illustrated instructions and alternative techniques for solving problems in technical mathematics. Totally revised and updated with state-of-the-art coverage of logic and digital systems. This tutoral guide provides helpful examples and illustrations, chapter self-tests, and even a comprehensive final exam. Great instruction for mastering math tests and certification exams, earning a technical degree, or confidently tackling any engineering challenge.
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