looking for stuff with resistors in series and in parallel and circuits that have both series and parallel resistors. thank you.

 

Yes, there are numerous ones out there. Have you looked?

 

There is an E-textbook on this site: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/

No shortage of of online tutorials -- with the corresponding wide range of quality, of course.

The Ham Radio community is another source of materials -- most of which are not aimed at the college level.

Nearly any first-year textbook in an EE program is going to start with basic DC circuits and resistors and then add capacitors and inductors (the classic "linear" elements) and then move to AC circuits using the same components, adding transformers along the way. Nilsson and Riedel is a pretty decent book. Like most college texts, it is expensive if you buy the current edition. But you can usually find older editions, used, for very reasonable prices (often in the $10 range).

 

there are some books that you might find useful:

• AC Electrical Circuit Analysis : Practice Problems, Methods, and Solutions by Mehdi Rahmani-Andebili
  • https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-60986-3
• DC Electrical Circuit Analysis : Practice Problems, Methods, and Solutions by Mehdi Rahmani-Andebili
  • DC Electrical Circuit Analysis : Practice Problems, Methods, and Solutions | SpringerLink
• Circuit Analysis: Theory and Practice by Allan H. Robbins and Wilhelm C. Miller
  • https://books.google.com/books/about/Circuit_Analysis_Theory_and_Practice.html?id=VLbycoxwas8C

there are some pdfs that you might find useful:

• http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/hp/staff/dmb/courses/ccts1/probsolall.pdf
• https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/ece205/sp2021/notes/Lecture5-6.pdf
• https://upload.chipdatas.com/root/p... CIRCUIT ANALYSIS by John O’Malley_Ca9u5O.pdf

 

looking for stuff with resistors in series and in parallel and circuits that have both series and parallel resistors. thank you.

thanks

 

I'd recommend Boylestad's "Introductory Circuit Analysis". Good used copies can be found @ Get Textbooks | New Textbooks | Used Textbooks | College Textbooks - GetTextbooks.com

 

Title: Understanding Basic Electronics, 1st Ed.
Publisher: The American Radio Relay League
ISBN: 0-87259-398-3

 

I'd recommend Boylestad's "Introductory Circuit Analysis". Good used copies can be found @ Get Textbooks | New Textbooks | Used Textbooks | College Textbooks - GetTextbooks.com

Boylestad's "Introductory Circuit Analysis" book is wonderful! I found it much easier to read and understand than the prescribed book for my undergrad circuit theory courses. Boylestad was also much cheaper because it was : a) an older and used edition vs brand new, b) sold to me by a coworker who had long since finished his undergrad work. He wasn't trying to take financial advantage of me, unlike the book store on campus.

 

the prescribed book for my undergrad circuit theory courses.

Which book was that? Just out of curiosity...

 

Which book was that? Just out of curiosity...

"Fundamentals of Electric Circuit Analysis", Alexander and Sadiku. I didn't care for it.

 

looking for stuff with resistors in series and in parallel and circuits that have both series and parallel resistors. thank you.

Not sure if it qualifies for "stuff"
But I recall a test taken too many decades ago ! ,
Which was to determine the resistance value of a a cube made up of all 12 1Ω resistors. The power was fed from one corner to the opposite diagonal corner of the cube.
Question: Determine the resultant resistance value

 

Yup, I looked at it. It's been over 50 years since I finished calculus, differential equations, and matrix analysis in college and all I remember are the very basics of it since I never used it during my career. Boylestad is very clear, concise, and thorough compared to several other authors in electronics that I've used.

 

Yup, I looked at it. It's been over 50 years since I finished calculus, differential equations, and matrix analysis in college and all I remember are the very basics of it since I never used it during my career. Boylestad is very clear, concise, and thorough compared to several other authors in electronics that I've used.

Of course, it very much depends on the specifics of your career choice, I used all three of these, and more, significantly in my journey. Even more so, I used the concepts upon which they are based on a very regular basis.

 

Various previous editions of Boylestad are available on Half Price Books for cheap. Some workbooks and lab manuals, too.

 

Indeed, which is why a put a link to @ Get Textbooks | New Textbooks | Used Textbooks | College Textbooks - GetTextbooks.com Which is an aggregator for over 400 or more booksellers listing what is available for any specific title and for how much including shipping and book condition. It also has a great search engine by title, author, or subject. It will list all titles by an author and break each title down by editions. Don't be fooled by the name because it will find any text and not just textbooks. I use them often and highly recommend them along with AbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & Collectibles which is one of the vendors on Get Textbooks.

Many are also available as free PDFs...

 

it very much depends on the specifics of your career choice

Indeed it does. One of the very disappointing concepts that I learned in psychology class had to do with memory retention. Specifically it had to do with usage of knowledge and retention of knowledge. The disappointing part was that retention drops drastically if the knowledge isn't used but you may still recognize it even if the use eludes you. As the old adage says "Use it, or lose it" and it is unfortunately very true with what you learn. I used a lot of math in my career but it was mostly trig and algebra with a lot of unit conversions and I still use it for studying electronics. I can't remember how to derive the equations with calculus but give me a derivative and I can use it. The control software I worked with did algebra including 5 variable polynomials. One of the young chemical engineers gave me a multivariable process equation in calculus and I had to tell him "If you can derive it into a polynomial, I'll program it." He did and after I programmed it into the control software it worked perfectly. Such is life...

 

The disappointing part was that retention drops drastically if the knowledge isn't used but you may still recognize it even if the use eludes you. As the old adage says "Use it, or lose it" and it is unfortunately very true with what you learn.

To a point I agree with this, but I think there comes a point where you reach a level of true comprehension at which point it stays with you pretty permanently with little more than a sheen of rust that is easily blown off, even after decades of not touching it.

 

looking for stuff with resistors in series and in parallel and circuits that have both series and parallel resistors. thank you.

Title: Understanding Basic Electronics, 1st Ed.
Publisher: The American Radio Relay League
ISBN: 0-87259-398-3