7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Quite good book for basic-intermediate electronic students, 23 May 2000
By Raul Nacher - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory (Hardcover)
I have the sixth edition of this book,and i think that althought is not the best book of the world is quite good book.You must learn about basic electricity first, a book like "basic electricity" by Nooger Van Valkenburgh is a very good one.You must know the Ohm law,Kirchhoff laws,simplify pasive circuits ( serie circuits,parallel circuits and complex circuits,what is a capacitor a inductance, thevenin's theorem and other things like that) The content of the book is based on the semiconductor components.The book explains what a diode is,how it works,the reason of his function,his characteristics,and many application circuits (How to convert ac current to dccurrent, how to change the level of dc voltage of a wave,etc);the book also explains what a transistor is and his apllications(amplifiers, an element for do digital circuits and the base of electronics),the book tells you how to polarizate a transistor,how amplifies and his models,and many circuits.Finally the book tells you what an operational amplifier is,power amplifiers,oscillator circuits(a circuit that converts dc current to ac current) and other control power dispositives. The book also have many problems,some illustrations,and a basic course of PSpice( a program for simulate electronic circuits).
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The best to learn electronics., 19 Oct 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Electronic Devices Circuit Theory (Hardcover)
I'm An electronics eng. and this was the book that I used to learn the first concepts and circuits, it's easy to understand.
If You wanna know what a transistor, tiristor, or op-amp is, and how do they work, this book is gonna tell you.
I give it 4 stars because it has some mistakes in its edition. Some times it say NPN and the transistor is a PNP, and things like that.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best way to understand the basics of devices theory, 12 Mar 2000
By Cesar - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory (Hardcover)
I was a teacher of eletronic and I used this book to introduce the fundamentals of discret devices for 3 years. This book has a good and clear explanation of eletronics theory since junction construction until the elementary integrated circuit. I recomend this book for anyone that wont to rewiew the eletronics basics and for teachers to be use in technician and egeneering regular cource.