book needed!

Already at Google and too lazy to use the search engine. Just pathetic.

The answer depends a lot on your unstated assumptions about your background and goals [*], but to toss one out there:

The US Navy's NEETs series is a good starting point. They're public documents and so available for free at several places on the web, as well (of course) being charged for at others.

[*] Similar to "What's the best glass?" For beer? Windows? Telescope mirrors? Single-mode fiber?

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24x7eager wrote in news:119491a5-647d-4486-941e- snipped-for-privacy@j33g2000pri.googlegroups.com:

The post below had been posted by someone else, but I'd kept the post as a reference; hope it' sof some help. Meanwhile, there are several books on- line that you can find, and read off the web, or download and read as PDF files, including (*not* an exhaustive list):

Here is that post: ========================================================== Subject: Re: Good Beginner Electronics Book From: "Claude" Newsgroups: sci.electronics.basics

Here is what I am using, it doesn't get any simpler. It is a course book of

57 lessons and you buy the component kit that comes with it in a nice little tool box complete with breadboard and jumpers. The book and kit are 100% compatible. The kit is exclusively sold by The kit is loaded with all of the required components and cost approximately 35% less than if bought separately. The book covers some theory then immediately has you breadboarding the lesson. They start with the schematic and pictures of the breadboard then wane you off of the breadboard pictures. The book has a few errors but the author maintains the required corrections on his site. The course takes about a 100 hours to get through if you are passionate. There was an error in the NOR and NAND gates lesson that threw me out for 2 days until I checked the site ( schematics where reversed)

Check out the author's site for more questions, answers and examples.

There is an Abra in Montreal Canada and one in the state of New-York, same owner and they do most of their business on-line. Very reputable and cater mostly to educational institutions.

The way the Navy course suggested in the other posts is outstanding!!!!! If there is one thing where the military excel in it is course design. It is thousands of pages so when I get confused on a concept in my Evil Genius course I check out the Navy course. It is a theory course, no practical experiments at all.

Are you lazy? I know I am so there is a 40 hour electronics course on Youtube given by a university in India. The teacher Mr Natarajan has a bit of an accent but the course is awesome. He power points the theory then breadboards everything in front of you. Those 40 hours are worth 2 years of school!!!!! The reason they did this very professional course is to be able to train people in remote areas of India who can't get to a proper institution. I would have paid good coin if they had charged for this course.

If nothing above helps consider knitting :o)

Claude Montreal

i will suggest you to read "principles of electric circuits" by Thomas L. Floyd