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James Porchik

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I hope I'm posting this in the right place, if not, I can repost elsewhere. I browsed the book meta and ordered a couple (art of electronics, troubleshooting analog). I'm looking for a text that will cover amplifier design theory that will take me through the process starting with very simple CE amps building up into more complex circuits. I'm taking "Analog II" at my local community college. It has no official text book. I'm looking something that will reinforce the material. Right now we're working on a dc coupled CE amplifier and my notes aren't fine enough.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
James
 
What they said.

For more insight in amplifier design, take a few known good amp schematics and try to analyze them using nothing but pencil, paper and the AoE chapters on transistors and low-noise hi-freq design. Learn to derive DC operating point and rough gain estimates with this technique. This may take a few passes per amp, but doing it this way will help you get an understanding of what happens.

For some areas, such as distortion, external information like http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/ampins/dipa/dipa.htm may come in handy.

JDB.
 
[quote author="Ptownkid"]The art of electronics will keep you occupied for a while.[/quote]

Yes... but there is no a lot of text bewteen the formulas ! :green:

I've just bought : Basic Electronic (US. NAVY) DOVER PUBLICATIONS, It's very very well written and very comprehensible.

eD
 
[quote author="vertiges"][quote author="Ptownkid"]The art of electronics will keep you occupied for a while.[/quote]
Yes... but there is no a lot of text bewteen the formulas ! :green: [/quote]
You must be talking about an entirely different The Art of Electronics than most of us have. One of the things I like about The Art of Electronics is that it is very light on formulas, with plenty of clear, helpful explanations instead.

JDB.
[maybe I'm misreading your smiley, but I felt it should be disambiguated lest it scares anyone away from AoE]
 
[quote author="jdbakker"][quote author="vertiges"][quote author="Ptownkid"]The art of electronics will keep you occupied for a while.[/quote]
Yes... but there is no a lot of text bewteen the formulas ! :green: [/quote]
You must be talking about an entirely different The Art of Electronics than most of us have. One of the things I like about The Art of Electronics is that it is very light on formulas, with plenty of clear, helpful explanations instead.

JDB.
[maybe I'm misreading your smiley, but I felt it should be disambiguated lest it scares anyone away from AoE][/quote]

I'm talking about the Horowitz / Hill version. It's definitely a bible and a must have, but it's not beginners oriented according to me.

I don't want to scare anyone... :wink:

eD
 
To James's original question, there is editor Shea's Amplifier Handbook from 1966. Comprehensive, but obviously very dated. At least it's readily available used and relatively cheap, and like H&H big enough to use as a middling doorstop if you don't like it.
 
wikipedia can also be usefull:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_tube
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opamp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-pass_filter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi_pass_filter
Especially, look at the opamp page, at the bottom there are some good PDFs docs
 
[quote author="vertiges"][quote author="jdbakker"][quote author="vertiges"][quote author="Ptownkid"]The art of electronics will keep you occupied for a while.[/quote]
Yes... but there is no a lot of text bewteen the formulas ! :green: [/quote]
You must be talking about an entirely different The Art of Electronics than most of us have. One of the things I like about The Art of Electronics is that it is very light on formulas, with plenty of clear, helpful explanations instead.

JDB.
[maybe I'm misreading your smiley, but I felt it should be disambiguated lest it scares anyone away from AoE][/quote]

I'm talking about the Horowitz / Hill version. It's definitely a bible and a must have, but it's not beginners oriented according to me.

I don't want to scare anyone... :wink:

eD[/quote]

Just start at the beginning. I'm still in the first chapter after 2 years, but it's still the easiest book I have found!
 
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