Getting Started in Electronics

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This is a complete electronics course in 128 pages! Author Forrest Mims teaches you the basics, takes you on a tour of analog and digital components, explains how they work, and shows you how they are combines for various applications. Includes circuit assembly tips and 100 electronic circuits and projects you can build and test.


Product Details

Publisher Master Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 0945053282
Number Of Pages 128
Format Paperback
Author Forrest M. Mims III
EAN 9780945053286
Label Master Publishing, Inc.
Studio Master Publishing, Inc.
Title Getting Started in Electronics
Publication Date 2003-02
Manufacturer Master Publishing, Inc.

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getting started in electronics

Review by nichayzak, 2010-09-06

This book went right along with another book purchased earlier for my son who is taking electrical engineering. This book was in good shape and saved me a lot of money buying from amazon.com rather than purchasing through the college book store.


Great book on circuit board electronics.

Review by ronald l johnson, 2010-07-18

It has easy to follow diagrams and explanations. All of the parts are explained well. This book is designed to give you enough knowledge to design your own circuits. The information is presented in a logical way that builds your knowledge page by page. When you are ready to start building circuits you can reference what you learned to get parts. This means knowing or looking up in the book a PNP transistor and using the schematic diagram to order parts. I like to order from Jameco Electronics. If you need a PNP transistor punch it in the search box at the site and you will have lots of options. I am not writing this review to promote Jameco Electronics. I am writing this to help people with building projects and getting the most out of this book. , Ron


Good Book

Review by J. A. Allemang, 2010-06-03

The faux notebook-lined pages are a little annoying but the info is good, a little broad but good for beginners.


Maybe the most readable intro electronics book ever

Review by M. Lundmark, 2010-05-01

I'm a programmer, but I've always had an interest in electronics. I picked up this book from Radio Shack about 20 years ago. I recently dug it out, dusted it off, and am reading it again. After having to trudge through many hard to read technical books throughout my career, I'm just amazed at how well written and easy to read this is. The hand-drawn illustrations on each page are awesome and make the topics even more understandable. It was written in the eighties, but other than the components getting smaller, I don't think the basic technology has changed. This book is hand-lettered by the author (in very legible block letters) and for me certainly adds to its greatness. While the book is only about 128 pages, it covers a lot of ground;
- basics of electricity,
- electronic components,
- semiconductors,
- photonic semiconductors,
- integrated circuits,
- circuit assembly tips including how to solder
- and also includes 100 schematics for some basic circuits you can build.

Very friendly and readable, I doubt if there is a better first book on electronics.


Hard to read -- look at the Look Inside! link

Review by Jonathan M. Davis, 2010-03-06

I'm not buying this. Look at the "Look Inside!" link. All of the text from cover to cover consists of chicken scratchings. I need a typewritten book, my eyes can't take that.


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