If you want to excel in any field, you need to have a good
knowledge about it. Books are the best source in this regard. Books play a
vital role in providing knowledge and developing good habits in a person also.
If you are here on this post it means you really want to
learn electronic engineering stuff and you want to build things you imagined so
far. Let’s begin the main topic.
There are two books, (there are many books but these two are which I personally feel good about) which I will present to you and discuss some of their aspects.
These are my personal observations and deduction; some other
person may find the other way around.
The two books are: “The Art of Electronics” by Paul Horowitz
& Winfield Hill and “Electronic devices” by Thomas L. Floyd.
“Electronics Devices” is used as a textbook in many
countries for Electronic/Electrical Engineering studies. This book is
completely devoted to analog electronics. One of the best features of book is
that it includes semiconductor physics. For each component like Diodes, BJTs
and FETs you will find their internal structure and what happens with electrons
and holes in the structure. Another good feature is “Application Activity”
where author provided some practical aspect (also implementation) of the content
covered in that chapter of book.
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This book is just about analog electronic devices. It does not even cover the whole analog contents but just some electronic components like diodes, BJTs, FETs, Op-amp and regulators. Also, it does not cover any other stuff like, definitions of voltage, current and other law of circuit. This book is not suitable for a person who is not an engineer and just want to learn circuits and develop his own projects.
Now let’s talk about the other book, The Art of Electronics.
This book is a complete guide to Electronics.
It does not matter if you are an engineer or not it guides you through each aspect of electronics. It covers analog as well as digital electronics (70% is dedicated to electronics and rest is digital). Even digital part is 30% but it is enough for a beginner (logic gates, flip flops, counters, timers and micro-controllers etc.). This book does not talk about semiconductor physics, from my point of view its not even important for a person who just want to learn electronics. It begins with the basic definitions of voltage, current resistance, circuit laws, different circuit configurations and a chapter is available for the instructions related how to draw circuit diagrams (this stuff is not available in the first mentioned book). As in the Floyd’s book, there are activity exercises, but this book accompanies a proper lab book written by the same authors which is another good aspect(I will upload that one some other day).
Click here to download "The Art of Electronics"
At the end I would
like to suggest something, if you are a person who loves electronics and
wants to put his imaginations into reality then you should go for “The Art of
Electronics”, the other book is also good one but I did not find suitable for
practical skills it is just good for its physics part. Floyd’s book deals with
ideal cases.
Attention: if you want to do high level research and practical work for your passion for electronics then you should consult both
books(for physics part "Electronics Devices" and for practical aspect you should
go for “The Art of Electronics”).
At the end I would like to say that these are my views about
these two books, you people may disagree.
and if you know any other good book in this field then
please suggest in the comments.
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