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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | A complete self-paced course and quick reference for hobbyists, students, and beginning-level technicians. Chapter-ending tests help readers gauge their progress. New editions include information on computerized test equipment, laser diodes, VMOS transistors, logic family interfacing, new computer microprocessors, and Digital Audio Tape (DAT). | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Delton Horn | | Paperback: | 692 pages | | Publisher: | McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics | | Publication Date: | September 01, 1993 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0830642005 | | Product Length: | 9.18 inches | | Product Width: | 7.34 inches | | Product Height: | 1.52 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.53 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.2 inches | | Package Width: | 7.4 inches | | Package Height: | 1.6 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 23 reviews |
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10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Absolutely Disgusting Jan 19, 2006
By Keith R. Fratus
I won't go on forever listing all the issues with this book, as the general idea has already been conveyed by many other reviews, but the sheer number of typographical errors in this book render it completely useless. What good is a technical literature if you never know whether or not the information you are reading is accurate, or whether or not it is a typo? Many of the errors are just sheer stupidity, a complete lack of proofreading, or both. Even some critical equations, such as certain rearrangements of Joule's law, are stated incorrectly. I can not believe this book was allowed to be published. I am seriously considering returning it.
12 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Number of errors renders this book useless Nov 03, 1999
This book at first glance appears to be a concise and informative introduction to the field of basic electronics. Upon closer inspection, however, numerous errors are apparent in the text. A number of stupid errors crept into this book at some point in its writing leading often to confusion as to what is being referred to. Too much time must therefore be spent trying to figure out what the author is talking about and this makes the book much less useful as a result. Sloppy proof reading (or maybe none at all) have allowed errors to slip through such as referring to the wrong question numbers in the self tests, screwed up equations (missing equals signs, subsitution of I2 for 12 twice in the first few chapters etc), numerous typos (fist instead of list appears in the introduction and things such as E3 being substituted for R3), ...I could go on and on. Anyway, this poor quality of the text makes this book sadly much less of interest and use to those who want to learn some basic electronics. The author makes some nice analogies early in the book that help aid the basic understandings and his style seems to be rather good other than the numerous typos and other errors. One thing that did bother me was his apparent love of rounding off numbers at the first opportunity. Granted, electronics is often a field where 5 decimal places are not required but while learning the theory it is important to know that the answer you get disagrees with the answer in the book because you have gotten the theory wrong and not because you failed to round off the numbers at each step to some random number of significant figures. All in all, knowing now what I know I would not have bought the book. If you can spend the time working around the errors, however, this book will provide a decent understanding of most of the fundamental concepts of electronics theory.
10 of 12 found the following review helpful:
Disappointed Mar 04, 2003
Luckily I did not buy this book, I borrowed it. I was very excited when I first brought this book home, but after I actually got into it I started to realize that it is full of typographical errors. At first I thought it was me, I was pulling my hair out thinking that my calculator had broke or I was just "missing something". Even simple multiplication was wrong. For example in an equation the book (page 78) states that "159000 / (3.3 x 0.68)= 159000 / 206.04" How did the author come up with 206.04??? The last time I checked my calculator, 3.3 x 0.68 = 2.244. I have been through six chapters so far and there are MANY typo's. I wonder to myself if what I am learning is actually correct or is it a typo? What about the in-depth chapters? I will continue to read this book for a very basic overview of electronics but that's about it.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Errors cause confusion... Apr 21, 1999
I bought this book in hopes of using it as a techincal reference to review fundamental electrical principals and theory. Unfortunatley, I was disappointed that this book had errors in the text and/ or diagrams that could lead to confusion for those who have no background in electonic theory. If the errors were corrected, it would be an OK introduction to electronics for non- techincal person. If you are looking for technical information and theory in any detail, this is not the book to buy.
8 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Don't even think about learning from this book! Nov 13, 2006
By David Lawson
All the previous reviews that mention the errors in this book are correct. This book is FULL of typos. I put up with them, correcting them along the way until the second group of experiments. Both Exp 9 - common base amplifier and Exp 11 - common collector amplifier do not work. After that point I gave up going any further in the book. If you are trying to learn electronics, hands on experiments are where you are really going to understand what is going on. Well this book will fail you on that point. Absolutely terrible! Do not waste your money.
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