Hi. I know basics of electricity. Ohms law, how behave resistors, caps, coils... But I want to learn analog electrnics this summer.

Could you recomend me good books or online course? I´m doing for hobby, just for star designing my own circuits.

Thank you

 

Hello,

There is a textbook on this site:
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/

The internet archive has also a collection of electronics books:
https://archive.org/details/opensource?tab=collection&query=electronics&and[]=language:"English"

Bertus

 

Some will say Grobb, Malvino, or Floyd. My preference is Boylestad's Introductory Circuit Analysis. Older editions but still the same theory is cheaper. Preferably in Very Good condition (like new). Might be found online as a free PDF. There is also a lab manual to accompany it. Excellent grounding in DC and AC theory. Also, his Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory and its lab manual for solid state components as a follow on. GetTextbooks.com is a valuable resource when searching for used books of any kind.

 

Horowitz and Hill, The Art of Electronics

 

BTW, AbeBooks is a good source of used but good condition editions of various titles.

 

Horowitz and Hill, The Art of Electronics

My beef with them is they show just about all circuit examples as earth grounded.
Also the copy I had a while ago did not even have symbol descriptors?

 

My beef with them is they show just about all circuit examples as earth grounded.
Also the copy I had a while ago did not even have symbol descriptors?

I'd never noticed that. I must go look. . . .

 

A college area books store that has the previous generation of text books can be a good source of less expensive books. AND NONE of the basic stuff has changed in the last 50 years. AND NONE of the new stuff is basics, anyway.

 

Thank you. I´ll check it out. And yes, I preffer the old ones.

What is the thing/problem of the earth grounding??

 

It is not the earth grounding, per-se, but the seemingly indiscrimanent use of the symbol across the board,
Unfortunately it has become the practice by many to use it, whether or not the circuit power common is meant to be at GND potential or not.
Which unfortunately, makes it meaningless!

 

an old copy of the ARRL radio handbook

 

It is not the earth grounding, per-se, but the seemingly indiscrimanent use of the symbol across the board,
Unfortunately it has become the practice by many to use it, whether or not the circuit power common is meant to be at GND potential or not.
Which unfortunately, makes it meaningless!

Maybe Messrs. Horowitz and Hill had a power supply which had 0V connected to the protective earth, and they used it for all their circuits. Then, I suppose, the book is correct.
You are right that they should have used the correct symbol, but it doesn't invalidate the information that the book is intended to convey. If the book were about designing and making an electronic product to sell, then a thorough coverage of earthing and all the safety standards would have been essential.

 

Hello,

@jaclement , for old books have a look here:
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Home-Book.htm

Bertus

 

Hi. I know basics of electricity. Ohms law, how behave resistors, caps, coils... But I want to learn analog electrnics this summer.

Could you recomend me good books or online course? I´m doing for hobby, just for star designing my own circuits.

Thank you

Be sure to be realistic in how much you expect to learn about analog electronics on your own over one summer. It sounds like you are starting from the level of understanding that, in an engineering curriculum, would usually be obtained in a Physics II course on electromagnetics. You've learned about the basic components (resistors, capacitors, and inductors), their constitutive equations (such as Ohm's Law), and probably how they combined in series and parallel and how to analyze the simplest circuits that involve them. That's basically the starting point for a Circuits I course, where you would learn more powerful techniques on how to analyze more general circuits restricted to these same components. You would still have a few more semester-length courses before you were really getting into the meat of analog electronics.

So you might try first narrowing the focus by deciding what it is you want to actually be able to do by the end of the summer. Pick a project that you want to be able to tackle, for instance. Then describe that and we can better discuss whether that is practical and, if so, what some good paths towards it might be.

 

Maybe Messrs. Horowitz and Hill had a power supply which had 0V connected to the protective earth, and they used it for all their circuits. Then, I suppose, the book is correct.
You are right that they should have used the correct symbol, but it doesn't invalidate the information that the book is intended to convey. If the book were about designing and making an electronic product to sell, then a thorough coverage of earthing and all the safety standards would have been essential.

I didn't intend to mean the contents were invalid, just that I would have expected that circuit diagrams of the general nature would have indicated the local common of the supply, as the circuits illustrated do not really require it.
Also I could not find a page that described circuit device symbols either.

 

Here's another one. Very broad coverage with some "lab" projects included. It is heavy on math but simple algebra for the most part. Not much discount for very good examples so might as well buy it new from Amazon. From John Wiley & Sons press and up to their usual level of excellence. I seem to remember a workbook for it as well but can't find it... 3rd Edition in very good condition also available and even cheaper!

 

One of the channels I'm subscribed to on YT is Mr. Carlson's Lab, and at the end of each of his videos he mentions a course he offers. Just mentioning it FWIW.

 

I just came across the 2006 version of the ARRL "Radio Amateur's Handbook", which appears to have a vastly larger section aimed at technical education then previous or later versions. So if the TS can find one of those 2006 copies used, it could be very educational.

 

I also would like to have some suggestions. Is there any good free e-book to brush up the basics?

 

I also would like to have some suggestions. Is there any good free e-book to brush up the basics?

Have you looked at any of the suggestions that have already been made?