Dec 062011
Electrical Engineering 101, Third Edition: Everything You Should Have Learned in School…but Probably Didn’t
Electrical Engineering 101 covers the basic theory and practice of electronics, starting by answering the question “What is electricity?” It goes on to explain the fundamental principles and components, relating them constantly to real-world examples. Sections on tools and troubleshooting give engineers deeper understanding and the know-how to create and maintain their own electronic design projects. Unlike other books that simply describe electronics and provide step-by-step build instructions,
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The goal of this book is to help the reader gain an intuition about electrical engineering.,
Electrical Engineering 101 surprised me. The author, rather than beset the reader with a fact after fact, takes the approach of teaching you how to intuit information about electrical engineering by presenting, in a top down fashion, the most important things to think about when designing circuits. For example, the author emphasizes the importance of Ohm’s Law illustrating why it is so important with several examples. In addition, the author likens the basic aspects of circuits: current, voltage, capacitors, resistors and inductors to their analogous counterparts in physics, for example he likens resistors to friction and capacitors to springs and inductors to mass. This combination of encouraging the development of an intuition about electrical engineering and a clear prioritizing of the important over the less important permeates this book. I am really enjoying reading this book and have already learned a lot about electrical engineering. Before reading this book I knew a lot of facts about electrical engineering but I was not able to connect them together. Electrical Engineering 101 has helped me pull all these facts together.
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|The basics for the not so newb,
From my hubby, who I got this:
Like much of the math, biology, etc that we’ve al forgotten since highschool, electrical engineering principles can get lost if not use for some time. I found Electrical Engineering 101 to be a great way to refresh my memory of all the stuff that seems to have been offloaded over the years. It covers all the major topics in a down to earth, easy to understand way. I’d be willing to bet that one with no background at all could pick up the book and learn the basic behind EE. Several of my coworkers have noticed it on my desk and thumbed through it, and I later spotted a copy on their desks as well.
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|Good overview of an important subject,
I’m not an electrical engineer nor do I aspire to be. Nevertheless, I am surrounded by objects whose functions are crucial to my daily life but whose inner workings are both off-limits and mysterious. These objects include computers of various shapes and sizes, video screens whose complexity and importance keep growing, audio and video equipment whose functionality keeps increasing even as their weight continues to diverge (my audio components gain mass with inverse proportionality to my video equipment). Some knowledge of how these things function and the theory behind it seems absolutely necessary even if that knowledge must by necessity be fairly rudimentary. Electrical Engineering 101 provides a good solid overview of the subject without getting lost in arcane details that would only confuse the layman.
Beginning with a discussion of electricity, it progresses to the theoretical principles that underlay the various devices and gadgets that are the current architecture of our lives. I was curious about the inner workings of a cell phone and the system that makes it all work so I looked it up in here and found the answers I sought quickly and clearly. This experience was repeated on several occasions when encountering other topics. Although the book is slightly technical, if you confront it with common sense and the will to understand even if it means re-reading some passages, there is nothing that the average intelligent reader will find impenetrable. For the dedicated and determined neophyte Electrical Engineering 101 is a nice introduction to a vast and often difficult subject.
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