Not a bad text. Didn't find anything obviously wrong in a quick scan.
Two comments:
1. As usual, and as per all electronics resources, its pretty much devoid of the practicalities of BJT/FET amps. Sort of, here are some facts, now go away. How do I go about designing a non-inverting amp with a small signal gain of 6dB? How do I calculate the input and output impedance to determine stage loading? Not even TAOE (2nd ed) nails that down well. This is really really important if you want to do anything analogue.
2. Tails off towards the end.
I spent a number of years in a past life doing EE and I've found only disappointment in books. All the useful knowledge I had was from sitting down with guys who are older than transistors and like their Teks with vacuum tubes in them. Frustrating because they're a dying breed of engineer.
Edit: if you want a really decent book on electronics but don't want to pay for TAOE, the "ARRL handbook" which is a yearly publication is a good bet. Anything from about 1995 onwards has a number of decent electronics chapters in it covering basics, linear, digital, transmission lines etc right up to RF plus all the maths you need. Turns up for not much money on Amazon, ebay etc. About 20% of the book is self-love about amateur radio so just ignore those bits. Also, maths are a bit wonky as they are practically inclined and mostly using ratios in imperial units but you can substitute SI units in and out fine if you look at the equation definitions rather than their application. Earlier ones have decent self-build projects for power supplies, test equipment and the like. I built an AF oscillator and various crystal-based RF oscillators and filters literally directly from the book.
Indeed. Learning from one of the oldheads is the only way to become competent. Schooling from professors on that stuff is useless. Engineering is doing, not test taking.
Two comments:
1. As usual, and as per all electronics resources, its pretty much devoid of the practicalities of BJT/FET amps. Sort of, here are some facts, now go away. How do I go about designing a non-inverting amp with a small signal gain of 6dB? How do I calculate the input and output impedance to determine stage loading? Not even TAOE (2nd ed) nails that down well. This is really really important if you want to do anything analogue. 2. Tails off towards the end.
I spent a number of years in a past life doing EE and I've found only disappointment in books. All the useful knowledge I had was from sitting down with guys who are older than transistors and like their Teks with vacuum tubes in them. Frustrating because they're a dying breed of engineer.
Edit: if you want a really decent book on electronics but don't want to pay for TAOE, the "ARRL handbook" which is a yearly publication is a good bet. Anything from about 1995 onwards has a number of decent electronics chapters in it covering basics, linear, digital, transmission lines etc right up to RF plus all the maths you need. Turns up for not much money on Amazon, ebay etc. About 20% of the book is self-love about amateur radio so just ignore those bits. Also, maths are a bit wonky as they are practically inclined and mostly using ratios in imperial units but you can substitute SI units in and out fine if you look at the equation definitions rather than their application. Earlier ones have decent self-build projects for power supplies, test equipment and the like. I built an AF oscillator and various crystal-based RF oscillators and filters literally directly from the book.