Free 2nd year undergrad online analog electronics course

So someone finally excluded Larkin ;-)

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What a sad jerk you are.

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Google has it as an eBook for $80, dunno if you can buy it in Canada tho :

Sounds like a nutty thesis. Is this course even for EE majors?

Something is messed up with Google, they have the title right but the contents are from another text on materials science...

I can do many things.. but (at least relevant portions of) the book look(s) to be online for the course, so if an e-book is okay... it's available at no cost.

Yes, but it is a 2nd year introductory undgraduate course.. like after they lay a solid base of math and physics in 1st year, they can _start_ talking about circuits.

It's not going to do an EE very much good unless they've forgotten just about everything they learned.

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Thanks Sphero, that's interesting.

I've watched a bunch of the OCW videos. There are some Physics ones by Walter Levin that are a lot of fun. (Assuming you like that sort of thing.)

George H.

I'm starting to go through courseware on the Applied Superconductivity (similar to 6.763).. looks like it dawned on Prof. T. Orlando that he could get more money if he pulled his illustrations from the slides and made you buy his book, but that's okay (unfortunately it's out of print and a bit expensive, but I tracked down a copy).

For example:-

"Image removed for copyright reasons. Please see: Figure 8.8, page

411, from Orlando, T., and K. Delin. Foundations of Applied Superconductivity. Reading, MA".

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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Probably the book company forced it. When I was a student there, the prof's were notorious for handing out notes rather than you needing to buy another book. ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Addison-Wesley.. that makes sense. I forget how much you give up when you sign a book contract.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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"it's the network..."                          "The Journey is the reward"
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Embedded software/hardware/analog  Info for designers:  http://www.speff.com

Trust me, you don't get rich on technical book royalties. Figure $60 publisher's price times 15% times 1000 copies a year, even for a best-seller.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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Doesn't sound so attractive considering the enormous amount of work required. Fame, if not fortune, I suppose.

I notice he took out all the illustrations, not just the ones from his book, but also ones he lifted from elsewhere. Probably just didn't have the time or budget to recreate or negotiate releases for the illustrations.

--sp

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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"it's the network..."                          "The Journey is the reward"
speff@interlog.com             Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com
Embedded software/hardware/analog  Info for designers:  http://www.speff.com

$9k is still a nice chunk to go towards you kids' tuition.

Our pastor self-published. He sells the book through his own web site and some other online stores. Some of those deals works in a way where books are printed as orders come in. But unlike a certain semiconductor company they don't wait until a huge bulk order comes in :-)

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Depends why you're doing it. There's helping people; one's own education (if you really want to know a subject, write a book on it); personal inclination; and of course career development. I'd have had a much harder time starting a consulting business if I hadn't written a book.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics

160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
845-480-2058

hobbs at electrooptical dot net
http://electrooptical.net

Considering how long writing a book takes, I'd have made about as much money mowing lawns--at least if you only consider the royalty payments.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics

160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
845-480-2058

hobbs at electrooptical dot net
http://electrooptical.net

True, but ... some day a famous scholar will say "As Dr.Hobbs wrote 200 years ago the noise in a transimpedance amplifier can be ..."

The problem with highly technical books is that the audience that can even remotely be expected to understand the stuff in them is so small that you can't even sell five digit quantities.

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Your just figuring that out? ;-)

Looking at the index, it seems like a poor way to learn circuit design. For instance, it goes into transistors, then later on does RLC circuits. What is this? ADD ADHD? It would make more sense to beat circuit theory to death so that the student is on autopilot when they reach active components.

Seriously , there is no need for this book to exist. I suppose I'm an old fart, but Wiley has a series of basic electronics books for decades. This is just reinventing the wheel to make money.

Seems kind of arbitrary which you do first- nonlinear or reactive parts. Kids have the attention span of a gnat these days, so maybe it's intended to be motivational.

Certainly nothing new has changed in a basic textbook in decades, though the emphasis seems less analytical and more intuitive than the way I was taught, which was pretty rigorous. Anyway, it's not making any money for them in this course if you use the online bits.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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"it's the network..."                          "The Journey is the reward"
speff@interlog.com             Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com
Embedded software/hardware/analog  Info for designers:  http://www.speff.com

This is also a second year course so hopefully they learned a bit about RCL's in first year physics. I find that it's the second or third time that I 'bump' into something that I finally decide to buckle down and learn it.

"Who knew RCL's were going to be more important than balls rolling down inclined planes."

I think the online courses are wonderful. (I hope they last.) The Prof 'teaching' Thermal/ Stat. Mech. was worthless. I had to learn it on my own to pass the qualifying exams. Some online videos would have been nice.

George H.

"The Journey is the reward"

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Two classics, both authors recent deceased:

Personally, I'd stick with the texts from Wiley. Who can argue with Gray and Meyer? MIT uses Roberge. Not a contest. It sounds like NIH:

Answer number 7.