Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, Fourth Edition Review

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(More customer reviews)Just to make this clear, I'm writing this as somebody who does NOT have a degree in Electrical Engineering. I've been trying to get into electronics for years and have tried many different books.
I'll break this review into three sections as I think this book needs three different ratings.
1. 5 stars for teaching basic electronics theory and concepts. The majority of the theory is in the first two sections of the book. After wrestling with "The Art of Electronics" and the 1st edition of "Practical Electronics for Inventors" for years this was the book that finally made sense. The chapters are well paced and the tests are a good way to help think about what you've learned.
2. 3 stars for Section 3. This is an issue because section 3 is where the book starts with diodes, transistors, and electronics circuits. As far as helping us understand electronics, this section is not even near the level of the first two sections of the book. More importantly, the author does not adequately explain the circuits presented.
3. 1 or 2 stars for teaching "Practical" skills. After moving through almost 3 sections of this book, I understand a lot of theory but can't understand what is going in a basic circuit when I look at one. This book is completely lacking in the practical aspect. I assumed all this would be explained in the third section but it isn't.
I think this would be a great first book. You will, however, need other books to learn some practical skills, which is why you wanted to get into electronics in the first place.

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Learn the hows and whys behind basic electricity, electronics, and communications without formal training
The best combination self-teaching guide, home reference, and classroom text on electricity and electronics has been updated to deliver the latest advances.Great for preparing for amateur and commercial licensing exams, this guide has been prized by thousands of students and professionals for its uniquely thorough coverage ranging from DC and AC concepts to semiconductors and integrated circuits.
Written by Stan Gibilisco, an electronics legend and McGraw-Hill's most popular TAB author
Perfect for hobbyists, students, and those of you who want to get ahead in tech-related careers
Packed with everything needed to enhance learning: 600+ illustrations, practical examples, and hundreds of test questions

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Microwave Engineering Review

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(More customer reviews)I was first introduced to this book through my professor. After reading this book I had a very good understanding of the material: wave guides, networks, S-parameters, filters, impedence matching, and transmission lines. This book does it all. It is an excellent introductory to intermediate book on Microwave engineering. You can understand the book entirely without getting lost in theory. Pozar does a good job at not confusing the reader, and it provides some real world examples that help the user relate. I myself go to GA Tech, and I recommend any electrical engineering student who is interested in electromagnetics or RF engineering to buy this book. If only because the GA Tech Library only has one copy and it is always checked out.

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Focusing on the design of microwave circuits and components, this valuable reference offers professionals and students an introduction to the fundamental concepts necessary for real world design. The author successfully introduces Maxwell's equations, wave propagation, network analysis, and design principles as applied to modern microwave engineering. A considerable amount of material in this book is related to the design of specific microwave circuits and components, for both practical and motivational value. It also presents the analysis and logic behind these designs so that the reader can see and understand the process of applying the fundamental concepts to arrive at useful results. The derivations are well laid out and the majority of each chapter's formulas are displayed in a nice tabular format every few pages. This Third Edition offers greatly expanded coverage with new material on: Noise; Nonlinear effects; RF MEMs; transistor power amplifiers; FET mixers; oscillator phase noise; transistor oscillators and frequency multiplier.

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Microwave Transmission Networks : Planning, Design and Deployment Review

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(More customer reviews)This book provides an excellent overview of microwave engineering within the industry. It is well written and laid out in an introduction to deployment fashion. Excellent discussion on link budget development and a thorough view of availability versus reliability within the microwave path. I like how the author introduces you to the basic fundamentals of microwave networks and then moves into planning, design, and deployment. If you design or work with microwave radios, this book should be on your shelf as a right hand tool. The book has been an excellent reference to me for developing software and microwave link budgets. Great job!

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Design and build - anywhere in the world. The only thoroughly modern reference on microwave transmission network engineering and management, expert Harvey Lehpamer's stellar "Microwave Transmission Networks" provides hands-on help that speeds every step of planning, designing, building, and testing systems built to both North American and ITU standards.Offering in-depth help you'll use every day, from feasibility studies to actual hardware rollouts, this valuable and easy-to-understand resource helps project managers, engineers, and planners to: understand, design, and build microwave point-to-point networks - long- or short-haul, North American or ITU standards; expedite the analysis and the design process using internationally accepted models; calculate loss/attenuation, fading and fade margins, quality, and availability and perform interference analysis; get need-to-know answers on microwave link engineering; perform expert testing from design stage through acceptance; handle hardware issues from housings to antenna mounts and beyond; understand and track microwave network rollouts; manage maintenance, regulatory issues, ethical dilemmas, and logistical and organizational challenges; understand other microwave systems like Point-to-Multipoint, WLANs, and Bluetooth as well as microwave systems for rapid deployment; and, more.

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Numerical Techniques in Electromagnetics with MATLAB, Third Edition Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is really well written. It goes into detail on a difficult subject and doesnt assume you already know the basics like a lot of books do. It goes into both the theory and how you would implement a numerical solution via matlab. Definately worth the expense if you are learning numerical solutions of EM problems.

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Despite the dramatic growth in the availability of powerful computer resources, the EM community lacks a comprehensive text on the computational techniques used to solve EM problems. The first edition of Numerical Techniques in Electromagnetics filled that gap and became the reference of choice for thousands of engineers, researchers, and students. This third edition of the bestselling text reflects the continuing increase in awareness and use of numerical techniques and incorporates advances and refinements made in recent years. Most notable among these are the improvements made to the standard algorithm for the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method and treatment of absorbing boundary conditions in FDTD, finite element, and transmission-line-matrix methods. The author also has added a chapter on the method of lines. Numerical Techniques in Electromagnetics with MATLAB, Third Edition continues to teach readers how to pose, numerically analyze, and solve EM problems, to give them the ability to expand their problem-solving skills using a variety of methods, and to prepare them for research in electromagnetism. Now the Third Edition goes even further toward providing a comprehensive resource that addresses all of the most useful computation methods for EM problems and includes MATLAB code instead of FORTRAN.

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RF & Microwave Design Essentials: Engineering Design and Analysis from DC to Microwaves Review

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(More customer reviews)I found this book to be very interesting once I began reading it I could not put it down. I highlt recommend others to read it I give this book two thumbs up.

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RF & Microwave Design EssentialsThis book is an indispensable tool for the RF/Microwave engineer as well as the scientist in the field working on the high frequency circuit applications. You will discover:] Electricity Fundamentals ] Wave propagation] Amplifier Design] Gain Equations] CAD Examples] S-Parameters ] Circuit Noise ] RF Design] Circuit Stability] Transmission Lines] RF/Microwave Bands

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RF Microelectronics (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)When I first bought this book, I was very hopeful. The book seemed to cover a lot of relevant material, in a concise fashion. When I tried to read it however, I found it a little bit too much on the concise side. I have read very complicated books with a lot of math before, and I could follow them easier than this "easy" writing style. Almost every subject is covered in other books in more detail and better. Sometimes it's nice to have a simpler book which is an introduction, and that is what I was hoping for, but this just didn't do it for me.I donated the book to the library,as I felt I would never really get too much out of it. This didn't stop me from buying Mr. Razavi's "Design of Analog CMOS ICs " and I liked his tutorial in the IEEE Phase Lock Loop book he edited.I know he can do a better job.

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The Acclaimed RF Microelectronics Best-Seller, Expanded and Updated for the Newest Architectures, Circuits, and DevicesWireless communication has become almost as ubiquitous as electricity, but RF design continues to challenge engineers and researchers. In the 15 years since the first edition of this classic text, the demand for higher performance has led to an explosive growth of RF design techniques. In RF Microelectronics, Second Edition, Behzad Razavi systematically teaches the fundamentals as well as the state-of-the-art developments in the analysis and design of RF circuits and transceivers.Razavi has written the second edition to reflect today's RF microelectronics, covering key topics in far greater detail. At nearly three times the length of the first edition, the second edition is an indispensable tome for both students and practicing engineers. With his lucid prose, Razavi nowOffers a stronger tutorial focus along with hundreds of examples and problems

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RF/Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applications Review

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(More customer reviews)This is the type of book commonly published by Artech House or IEEE Press. It is as if a person who was highly skilled in writing liberal arts prose finds a file cabinet abandoned by a retired engineering manager. The file cabinet is filled with a lifetime eclectic collection of magazine articles, photo copies of sections of books, and reports from subordinates, all of which were never read by the manager because of time restraints. The liberal arts person shuffles the contents together into a book without really understanding what is written. This book is strewn with tables and illustrations which are never referenced in the text. Most of the illustrations are multiple generation photocopies. Equations contain undefined terms. Critical design issues are passed over with one sentence while there is a several page mathematical derivation of the DC output impedance of a BJT. The author infers that it is not necessary to understand what you do as long as you can get the answer from a CAD program. The book perpetuates the urban legend that Gilbert invented a mixer. This topology goes back to at least 1920 and had been implemented with relays, vacuum tubes, specialized vacuum tubes, and discrete transistors. The author references Gilbert's paper which references the discrete transistor version as prior art and then shows how to make a pre-distortion circuit to add to this mixer to obtain a four quadrant linear multiplier. So much for not reading your references. Finally, the book does not explain anything very clearly. people who are not already skilled in RF will not gain any design ability from this book. They will however get a false sense of skill level that will allow them to do basic, simple designs, but not designs that push technology. That is, they could do a day late dollar short design of consumer products, but not military products.
This comment was added in 2007. It seems that Artech House and the IEEE press have become more careful in what they publish. Most of the books published recently by them are edifying to read and I have purchased and enjoyed several of them.

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A unique, state-of-the-art guide to wireless integrated circuit design.With wireless technology rapidly exploding, there is a growing need for circuit design information specific to wireless applications. Presenting a single-source guidebook to this dynamic area, industry expert Ulrich Rohde and writer David Newkirk provide researchers and engineers with a complete set of modeling, design, and implementation tools for tackling even the newest IC technologies. They emphasize practical design solutions for high-performance devices and circuitry, incorporating ample examples of novel and clever circuits from high-profile companies. They also provide excellent appendices containing working models and CAD-based applications.RF/Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applications offers:* Introduction to wireless systems and modulation types* A systematic approach that differentiates between designing for battery-operated devices and base-station design* A comprehensive introduction to semiconductor technologies, from bipolar transistors to CMOS to GaAs MESFETs* Clear guidelines for obtaining the best performance in discrete and integrated amplifier design* Detailed analysis of available mixer circuits applicable to the wireless frequency range* In-depth explanations of oscillator circuits, including microwave oscillators and ceramic-resonator-based oscillators* A thorough evaluation of all components of wireless synthesizers

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RF & Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Applicatons Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a very good design guide for rf engineers and students involved in microwave components & circuits. Pretty comprehensive, but costly though.

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This is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of hardware and circuit design specifically for engineers working in wireless communications. It serves as a reference for practicing engineers and technicians working in the areas of RF, microwaves, communications, solid-state devices, and radar.

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Signal Processing for Wireless Communications Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is the "BEST" book I have ever seen in wireless technology with "practical" physical layer design focus. It is not surprising to see the author coming from rich industrial experience, I can see that easily in the book. I highly recommend the book for physical layer designers.

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Modern Wireless Communications Review

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(More customer reviews)I am a student using this book for a wireless systems class. It does a pretty decent job of explaining the concepts in words. However, the problems are poorly written, many of the figures and equations are wrong, and the examples given in the book are not sufficient for learning how to actually do the problems.

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