electricity

This book contains real practicality, not just empty theory. Talk about "put your money where your mouth is" - Hugh lives on a remote spit of land in Northern Scotland that doesn't even have roads, much less access to the power grid. If necessity is the mother of invention, there's good reason why he was highly motivated to develop the kinds of simple airfoils and low speed alternator combinations that produced real power. This rudimentary experience has taken him all over the world for installations and workshops. I guess having someone like that around makes him a pretty popular guy with his neighbors.

This book covers the theory necessary to understand wind energy basics, and proceeds as a how-to manual on shaping a simple turbine out of wood. It then shows how to build a low speed alternator out of a brake drum. (There is another book by Hugh called "Brake Drum Windmill Handbook" which goes into more detail).

The challenge is building an electrical generating system that operates at the slow rotational speeds of a wind turbine (e.g. 300 - 500 RPM). Everybody wants to hook up an automobile alternator, but even if it is optimized for high output at an idle, it probably will not start producing power until it reaches 1800 RPM. (Typically the engine/alternator pulleys have a ratio of 3 or 3.5 to 1 and the engine idles @ 600 RPM).

A great little book.

I found this book to be very informative. Not all of my questions were answered, but I now feel that I have a basic grasp of how to design and build my own scrapyard wind turbine. If you are interested in this I highly recommend this book for your collection of reference materials.

I think that this book is very,very usefull to me being an electrical contractor,but I,m lookiing forward for an electronic electrical estimator,on a CD,to make my life a lot easier.I hope Iwill get an answer soon.Meanwhile I'll use the book.Thank you!

The book shall provide complete technical aspects of capacitors & very useful to component manufacturers .

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Packed full of outstanding historical photos and wonderfully written text this fascinating biography clearly illlustrates the life of one of the greatest inventors in America - a man who was always searching for ways to help his fellow men. A wonderful addition to any library.

Atom Photon Interactions is an excellent text for atomic and optical physics. I refer back to the review material---transition amplitudes, quantum electrodynamic fundamentals, etc--- over and over again. Naturally, these sections are very brief, and the book works best along side Cohen-Tannoudji's more elementary texts Quantum Mechanics and Photons and Atoms, or their equivalents.

The later chapters are rich in techniques and intuition applicable to atom-trapping, spectroscopy, laser theory, etc. Cohen-Tannoudji covers a lot of material, and manages to link it all to a few basic fundamental principles. The book is extremely well-organized, with bite-sized sections and appendices to each chapter. An excellent collection of exercises with solutions is included in the back. Unfortunately, the text does not prompt the reader to try working these problems at appropriate times (sadly, I didn't realize the exercises were there until I'd been using the book for some time). Like Photons and Atoms, this is primarily a book for theorists; its one weakness, I feel, is that the principles, however clear, never seem connected to the actual numbers that an experimentalist or system designer can relate to.

I WOULD LIKE TO CHECK THE TECNICS OF THE ANALISIS OF CIRCUITS BASED IN THE TIME DOMAIN, USING THE FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF CIRCUITS THEORY; AS OHM'S LAW, CIRCUIT'S ELEMENTS (RESISTOR, POWER SOURCES, INDUCTORS, ETC.) THE TRANSFORMATION OF POWER SOURCES, NODES VOLTAGE ECUATIONS. SO I WOULD LIKE TO LEARN NEW TECNICS TO ANALIZE CIRCUITS ON THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN, AS FASORIAL ANALIZE, LAPLACE, FOURIER SERIES. THAT'S WHY I'M LOOKING FOR THIS BOOK CAUSE IT HAS ALL I NEED TO LEARN THIS. ALSO IT HAS GOOD EXAMPLES AND EXERCISES TO DO. HOPE YOU CAN HELP ME GETING THIS BOOK CAUSE I REALY NEED IT.

I loved the way this book is organized and layed out. The diagrams are easy to read and follow. The slant of the book focuses on the communication aspects of electronics starting off with a definition of communications and explaining and surprisingly clear detail the definitions you will come across. A good refresher chapter covers Ohm's Law, transistor and FETs configurations and a real good section on couplings and their effects on the signal. Diagrams of the spectum analyzer's screen is used to explain modulation with out getting technical. All the math is basic algebra with no calculus in sight. There's a page in chapter 4 that helps you in designing common emitter amplifiers. AM, FM, sideband is covered including standing wave ratio and antenna theory. I wish I had this book when I was learning radio communications in the military. It's only 200 pages but the information provided is enough to get the beginning student up to speed quickly. The author doen't go much into TV but he does cover various line connections from waveguides to coaxial cables. From here you can easily move on to an ARRL Radio book. I love this book!!!

Easily understood material covering dc circuits. A good book for the beginner.I used the book as a supplemental study guide.

This has been the NUMBER ONE mose helpful electronics textbook I have ever found. This is an actual text-book, designed for classroom type settings, but I have found it to be extremely useful for independent study. It takes a very scientific approach to electricity and explains everything step-by-step in very easy to understand language. It comes with many review questions and practice problems to aid in the development of your understanding of the lessons. The illustrations are superb, and greatly helpful. This book makes everything from nodal analysis to digital circuits very easy to understand. Schuler and Fowler do an excellent job of relaying the basics of electricity. I highly recommend this book.