****** - Verified Buyer
4.5
I was looking for a book to give to my daughter in college...one that would make her love the subject, not loathe it eventually, or use to try and somehow get through with barely adequate grades,only to happily forget it forever. I am a Physics double post-grad, brought up in the Feynman style of explaining and understanding: feed the intuition, but stick solidly to the facts. Ed's book, I pleasantly found does just that...he starts at the very basics...and ramps up to advanced topics skillfully, never leaving the reader behind. He often writes out the equation in almost text style sometimes: like R_parallel equivalent = product of both divided by sum of both. Now that is how it sticks to the memory forever...that is how I remember it on the job, funny no textbook could tell you that off the bat.Ed's book moves very effortlessly into a particularly enlightening chapter where he explains in order: Superposition principle, the Thevenin method, Norton's method, the Mesh method, the Nodal method, then summarizes these such as: Superposition Theorem Highlights: It is is divide and conquer approach....etc. then shows the same circuit, solved by all the methods so you can decide which one suits you the most! Very nice. No mystification. To the point.Ed moves similarly through Op-amps, comparators, BJTs, MOSFETs, and then over to binary numbers, Karnaugh maps, logic gates (explained brilliantly I thought), decoders/encoders, adders, latches...state machines and finally: a simple CPU design.Ed is trying to explain and make you love the subject as much as he obviously does. One of the memorable quotes attributed to Feynman is: "If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood it..."That is why I am happily loaning this to my daughter (I intend to steal it back on weekends to refresh myself).
