Recommend me a Good Electronics/Physics Book

[tomtom123]

What's a good book to learn more about the physics of electricity and more about electronics? I don't want something easy, but not something too hardcore. I want a book that will teach me practical things. I actually learned all this stuff back in 9th grade during high school physics but i haven't used any physics in the real world since then and i'm 21 now, so i forgot EVERYTHING lol, kinda sad if you think about it..... Anyway, So i want to go back, re-learn the stuff that are practical and useful and build up my knowledge from there. I'm considering this book at the moment, i skimmed the table of contents and the sample chapters, it's looks good.

http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Scherz/dp/0071771336/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398827148&sr=1-1&keywords=electronics

anyone has any other recommendations?

Also, any decent book recommendations for classical mechanics would be good too . I've tried scouring the physics department website of Columbia, Mit, and stanford, and stony brook to see what physics books there were using for their general intro physics classes but they didn't list it

 

[dnmun]

do they have used bookstores where you live? you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a book and read it. they have lotsa old textbooks on electronics and you can read a circuits textbook and know everything you need. i found that just reading along on the BMS thread that richard and gary did, that the stuff could be understood enuff i have been teaching myself just by fixing things. it goes slow. but i did have some EE courses in college about 35 years ago.


and i taught one lecture in the junior level EE lectures @CSU back in 1981. on the Fermi level.

 

[Dauntless]

I'll tell you there's stepping stones. I assume you need the first to be close to shore.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Diagnose-Fix-Everything-Electronic/dp/0071744223/ref=la_B004KQIGPQ_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398842145&sr=1-1

 

[r3volved]

If you're on itunes, check out the itunes university classes. There's a ton of great stuff on there.
My problem has never been finding information...the web has all the answers or all the steps to find your own answers. My problem is that I never learned formally in school, so I had a hard time building foundations (not knowing what fundamentals I should grasp before moving to other concepts). I find that watching/listening to lectures in series helps put things in logical orders and helps me link together what I learn

For books and stuff, check your local post-secondary institutions. You can generally find decent up-to-date textbooks for resale at the start and end of semesters.

 

[Ykick]

What you need to do is search and learn about Ohm's law. That's the basis for things electrical/electronic. The same formulas often apply to hydraulic & pneumatic discipline too.

Once you're able to understand V, I, and R, parameters of Ohm's law then move on exploring electronics manufacturing and components in the real world.

Tearing into trashed gear is a great way to learn the "mechanics" of electronic components and how things are often assembled.

Seriously, a book without a class isn't gonna teach you nearly as much as searching the internet (YOUTUBE) and getting your hands dirty. Learn how to solder...

 

[amberwolf]

I'd actually recommend picking up any of the old Forrest Mims III books you can find. Especially if you want to learn by doing, and hten build some of the projects in them, and hten play wiht the values and whatnot that are changeable to see what happens.

After that, it depends on which way you want to go in the electronics stuff as to what would be better. If you wanna know how to design stuff, you'll want to learn totally different things than if you just wanna understand how to fix them.