The Art of Electronics - third Edition

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As others have noted, the paper used is quite thin, but it would have to be, given the page-count - 1260-ish. For a great beginner’s book, it’s hard to go wrong with Forrest Mims’ “Getting Started in Electronics”. At well over a thousand information-dense pages, though, that feels like an extraordinarily laborious way to get into a hobby that has next to no useful applications.

Any fan of the book will certainly want to consider obtaining the latest release, The Art of Electronics: The x-Chapters, which follows the previous third edition of AoE from 2015. Here, you’ll find a discussion of simple diode- and MOSFET-based reverse battery protection circuits, lithium-ion battery circuit safety, implementing foldback current limiting, controlling DC motors with PWM, high-side current sensing, and various other topics in power electronics design.This new book is a superb update, one which I'm sure will be treasured by those close to the art of analog circuitry. After the initial book, the second edition (AoE2) was published in 1989, and the third (AoE3) in 2015, each one renewing and expanding coverage to keep up with the rapid pace of the field. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. It’s really too bad that they don’t teach more about circuits design and manipulation in undergrad as it is more applicable to a lot of jobs.

to find that we were both learning solid state diodes in our classes, only he had waited 2 years to get to the hands-on portion in his studies, and I was having my labs concurrent with the lectures.

It also includes discussions of such often-neglected areas as high-frequency, high-speed design techniques and low- power applications. I highly recommend for the hobbyist, but beware highlighting, just slip some copy paper between pages before to prevent bleed through.