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Complete Electronics Self-Teaching Guide with Projects

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Complete Electronics Self-Teaching Guide with Projects is a comprehensive resource for electronics enthusiasts. Updated for modern technology, it combines clear explanations, self-tests, and hands-on projects to help you master electronic circuits. With a user-friendly format and a question-and-answer style, it builds on basic electronics knowledge and algebra to deepen your understanding.

The book includes practical experiments involving devices such as multimeters, breadboards, oscilloscopes, and transistor amplifiers, all supported by a companion website featuring over twenty full-colour projects.
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This book is ideal for electronics enthusiasts with basic foundational knowledge who wish to expand their skills independently through practical projects and detailed conceptual guidance.

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An all-in-one resource on everything electronics-related! For almost 30 years, this book has been a classic text for electronics enthusiasts. Now completely updated for today's technology, this latest version combines concepts, self-tests, and hands-on projects to offer you a completely repackaged and revised resource.

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description
An all-in-one resource on everything electronics-related!

For almost 30 years, this book has been a classic text for electronics enthusiasts. Now completely updated for today's technology, this latest version combines concepts, self-tests, and hands-on projects to offer you a completely repackaged and revised resource. This unique self-teaching guide features easy-to-understand explanations that are presented in a user-friendly format to help you learn the essentials you need to work with electronic circuits.

All you need is a general understanding of electronics concepts such as Ohm's law and current flow, and an acquaintance with first-year algebra. The question-and-answer format, illustrative experiments, and self-tests at the end of each chapter make it easy for you to learn at your own speed.

  • Boasts a companion website that includes more than twenty full-colour, step-by-step projects
  • Shares hands-on practice opportunities and conceptual background information to enhance your learning process
  • Targets electronics enthusiasts who already have a basic knowledge of electronics but are interested in learning more about this fascinating topic on their own
  • Features projects that work with the multimeter, breadboard, function generator, oscilloscope, bandpass filter, transistor amplifier, oscillator, rectifier, and more

You're sure to get a charge out of the vast coverage included in Complete Electronics Self-Teaching Guide with Projects!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118217320

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 July 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Edition: 4th edition

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 31.0mm

Width: 188.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 1157g

Pages: 608

About the Author

Earl Boysen is a veteran engineer who maintains two technology-focused websites, www.buildinggadgets.com and www.understandingnano.com. He is coauthor of the first edition of Electronics For Dummies as well as Electronics Projects For Dummies and Nanotechnology For Dummies, all published by Wiley. The late Harry Kybett wrote the bestselling first and second editions of Electronics Self-Teaching Guide . He was director of engineering operations at Columbia Pictures Corporation. He built many studios and video systems for the broadcasting industry, and created training programs for Sony Corporation of America.

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