Very, very nice. Right from the beginning:<p>> At a fundamental level, electronics is the branch of physics in charge of controlling the flow of charged particles, typically electrons. In practice, electronic engineering uses the highest level manifestations of said flow of charge to provide solutions to problems or needs.<p>I absolutely love reading text that state what we already feel intuitively and present it as an eloquent statement of fact.
The Art of Electronics, by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill is the way to go. It’s over 1000 pages and has an additional exercise book, but at the end one has some basic understanding what’s really going on.
Hmm, while the website seems quite beautifully designed, the introduction is quite rudimentary. I don't think you'd be able to figure out how a circuit works just by reading this.
If the author is lurking, § 3.2.2.1 <i>Passive Components</i>[1] table headers are listed in English; § 3.2.2.2 <i>Active Components</i>[2] are listed in Spanish.<p>I'm clearly not the target audience here, but I'd be lying if there wasn't a sense of conceit in its objectivity...kind of like those World Book encyclopedia entries I'd read for hours at a time as a kid, becoming aware of the existence of something, but only enough to sow more questions than answers.<p>[1] <a href="https://electroagenda.com/en/a-summary-of-electronics/analog-electronics/#post-769-__RefHeading___Toc2811_3853574436" rel="nofollow">https://electroagenda.com/en/a-summary-of-electronics/analog...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://electroagenda.com/en/a-summary-of-electronics/analog-electronics/#post-769-__RefHeading___Toc2813_3853574436" rel="nofollow">https://electroagenda.com/en/a-summary-of-electronics/analog...</a>
For beginner I'd highly recommend this new book by Jonathan Bartlett, Electronics for Beginners: A Practical Introduction to Schematics, Circuits, and Microcontrollers:<p><a href="https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484259788" rel="nofollow">https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484259788</a><p>The book comprehensively covers the fundamentals of analog and digital electronics including the basic of amplifier topic that most of the electronics for beginners books ignored.<p>For electronics workbench typically you would have signal generator, oscilloscope, multimeter and power supply that can cost you some good money and they're not that integrated and programmable. For that I'd recommend this new many-in-one tool from Digilent namely Analog Discovery Pro that is better integrated and can be easily programmable:<p><a href="https://digilent.com/blog/the-creation-of-the-analog-discovery-pro" rel="nofollow">https://digilent.com/blog/the-creation-of-the-analog-discove...</a><p>This new tool can perform many functionalities for testing and measurement purposes that are crucial for successful circuit design, analog or digital.<p>Together with the book and Analog Discovery Pro tool, you'll be loaded for the bear in your electronics adventure.
I have a CS background and are interested in learning more about electronics. Is there a good beginners tool I can use to accurately simulate electronic diagrams and learn from?
Terrible website structure, forces you to click and load new pages for every concept, no download option, no see "all in one page" option. Lots of screen area waste.