I need to know what books have basic electronics and whatnot that are easy to learn from and understand. I am a radio engineer asst at school but all I know is what I taught myself.
thanks
wacky
Hey sis, I found a couple of sites that might help you. This is from About.com. And this is a Broadcasting Engineers site. They may have the info your’e looking for.
thanks big bro, but if anyone knows of any actual books, that would be great, too. but I will check out those sights.
The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill.
Geez Jonf
That’s one heck of a book for the novice I tend to use it more as a referance like an encyclopeadia rather than a learning aid.
True it has plenty of well explained stuff in it but its surrounded by fairly advanced concepts.
Once you’ve got over the initial learning hump wacky
and got into maths as far as basic calculus, complex quantities, and can understand negative feedback properly then yes it’s a brilliant book.
Depends if you want to take it up as a career or as a hobby.
Either way it might be useful to brush up on your engineering math.
It sounds as if there should be plenty of ideal material close at hand if you ask one of the tutors.
You might also try out the small project books where you get to build amps, timers, effects units and the like.
If you do get into it you will find youself collecting old electronic wholesalers catalogues as they are a handy source of data.
thanks Casdave. I assist the cheif engineer at the radio station at school. All i basically do is solder new connection wires for soundboards <XLR, RCA…> and set up the system.
I have asked the engineering professors to help me but they all just give me the whole “you need to learn the theories first” story. THis is going to end up being my career. What better way for a restless kid who loves music and playing with electricity to earn money?
unfortunatly my math skills aren’t so great, and although most of my friends are engineers, they don’t have time to help me, they have enough of a workload.
To foster your enthusiasm then you need to do something that is practical as well as reading up.
The math you need to progress is not as hard as you might imagine, just take it a step at a time.
The thing is that if you concentrate heavily on the theory is can become quite dry.
Get yourself into self-build projects - oh, and keep away from the house wiring ! (knowing grin)