Solutions to 'The Art of Electronics' exercises (2023 Update)

The perfect Xmas present for all your geek friends.

Win , I just wanted to add my thanks to that expressed by Phil. (I've stolen circuits from lots of places, but no single source larger than your book.)

George H.

What he's trying to say, Win, is that you did good.

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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 
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You could give 'em Kindle versions of the 2nd ed., $48.

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 Thanks, 
    - Win

Congratulations! I look forward to seeing all of the new stuff. :)

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(='-'=)   Don Kuenz 
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Congratulations! Dear Sirs,

The 2nd Edition (I use the 8th issue of 'die hohe schule der elektronik

2nd ed.' aka AoE 2nd. ed.) is wonderful. The translation of the nice english(american)english into german, is (has been done...) in my opinion almost perfect!

I think I have to edge my skills in english further. The English-US

3rd. ed. is to be worth a try :)

Kind regards Daniel Mandic

Congratulations! I'm no stranger to ridiculously long pet projects, but you guys have got to hold the all-time record, at least in the post-cathedral era. It must feel great to have that weight off your shoulders.

-- john, KE5FX

Welcome back. I was wondering if you had given up on us. :)

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Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to 
have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.

I also wish The Art of Electronics gave the solution to all exercises somewhere in the appendix...I'm often unsure if I did good, and I have no one knowledgeable to help me here :(

For most of the exercises, you can check your work using Paul Falstad's free drag and drop analog circuit simulator:

As a bonus, it natively imports/exports SPICE files.

It's a great way to build intuition about circuits, which is what TAOE is about.

"Select group" of pansies ?>:-} ...Jim Thompson

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             I'm looking for work... see my website. 

Thinking outside the box...producing elegant & economic solutions.

There's a guy in the reddit group doing them. Here's the thread.

Here's the website.

That's kinda unbelievable.

g you, it's easy to work out the solutions to the exercises. If you are sil ly enough to look for another approach, you may take a while to develop the necessary competence - the book was aimed at Harvard undergraduates, and a lso works for Cambridge UK undergraduates, who form a similarly select grou p.

Getting into Harvard or Cambridge U.K. isn't easy. As far as I know the sel ection process doesn't pay any attention to sexual preferences, even if the y seem worth worrying about to antiques from Arizona.

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I am a teacher, not in electronics, but still a teacher. I find this type o f reply very damaging to a person honestly trying to be a lifelong learner. You Guys trying to learn ROCK! Keep it up, don't let this type of reply d iscourage you.

Electronics courses are not as easy to find as they once were. Nor are thei r specialized fields available anymore. So now, to keep the older knowledg e alive, it is up to people to seek out books and mentors.

Please be a mentor, or stop commenting. You are hindering good people that are honestly trying to learn.

I challenge you prove that you actually know the answers; because at presen t, I am not so sure you do. If you do, please rise above this and teach.

I wish to point out that I am being nice in this reply, and yet, I find you r comments very offensive. If anything I have said in this post is hurtful or offends you or anyone else, please accept my honest and humble apology. I am not an electronics teacher, so maybe I am wrong, here. My only goal here is to suggest a new path.

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ent, I am not so sure you do. If you do, please rise above this and teach.

our comments very offensive. If anything I have said in this post is hurtf ul or offends you or anyone else, please accept my honest and humble apolog y. I am not an electronics teacher, so maybe I am wrong, here. My only go al here is to suggest a new path.

Sloman is seldom constructive. Many of us killfiled him.

NT

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I notice (with considerable glee) that snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com seems to have hit near ignored-by-100%.

Just apply the same to Slowman. ...Jim Thompson

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| 1962 |

I'm looking for work... see my website.

Thinking outside the box...producing elegant & economic solutions.

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of reply very damaging to a person honestly trying to be a lifelong learne r. You Guys trying to learn ROCK! Keep it up, don't let this type of reply discourage you.

Some folks are more talented than others. Denying that does a lot more dama ge. Teaching the less talented means that you have to dot a lot more of the "i"s and cross a lot more of the "t"s, and it takes you longer to get wher e you need to get to.

eir specialized fields available anymore. So now, to keep the older knowle dge alive, it is up to people to seek out books and mentors.

at are honestly trying to learn.

I very much doubt it. You may not like what I've posted, but you haven't be en all that explicit about what you didn't like, and without that nobody is going to take you seriously.

ent, I am not so sure you do. If you do, please rise above this and teach.

I couldn't care less about your opinion. It doesn't sound as if you could p ose a question which would be worth answering. If you can post one, I'll po st a response, if I know enough about the subject to say anything useful, w hich certainly isn't guaranteed.

You may think so.

If you self-identify as being thick as a brick, you might. Telling people w ho haven't got much talent to persist in trying to develop what talent they 've got isn't good advice - they'd be much better off finding out what they are good at and working on that.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

NT doesn't seem to know enough to recognise constructive suggestions. He does seem to specialise in carping - if he's good for anything else I haven't seen any examples here.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney 
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Unlike Jim, his comments don't provoke incredulous corrections.

The cost benefit ratio works better for kill-filing Jim Thompson, even better for NT and krw.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney