Electronics Demystified

by Stan Gibilisco

Helps readers to learn electronics essentials that help them as an employee, a hobbyist, or merely as a consumer. This book helps readers discover the electrifying truth about power transmission and power supplies and uncover the purpose of the diodes, transistors, amplifiers, and oscillators that make appliances work.

Genres: Nonfiction, Technology, Science

401 pages, Paperback

First published August 19, 2004

Reviews

[Petr Lorenc · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice explanation but only for time-to-time reading

[Bojan Tunguz · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you are new to electronics and have no idea about circuits, transistors, diodes, antennas or even what these words really mean, this might be the right book for you. It introduces all these concepts, and lets you get exposed to them in a systematic way. However, the concepts may be introduced a bit haphazardly, and it's not always easy to see how all the material fits together. The book is also filled with exercises and quizzes, and these may be the most worthwhile aspects of the books. Nonetheless, keep in mind that electronics is an empirical discipline, so the real learning happens with hands-on experience with building (and blowing up) of actual physical circuits. But if you are just interested in getting exposed to the basic concepts, this would be a good book to read.

[Lianna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Explains power fundamentals, how power supplies work and some other basics in a straightforward way.

I'm having a rough time with impedance though. That chapter is like a rubik's cube made of words and 90 degree phase shifts.