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Electrical Engineering 101, Second Edition: Everything You Should Have Learned in School...but Probably Didn't

Electrical Engineering 101 introduces the theory and practice of electronics, beginning with the basic question of what electricity actually is. Its chapters set out the core principles and components, tying each idea to everyday examples. Sections on test equipment and fault finding help readers build and maintain their own projects.

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Rather than stopping at descriptions and step-by-step builds, the book explains how and why circuits behave as they do, and it explains jargon and schematics as they come up in plain language. The revised edition adds material on microcontrollers, memory, surface-mount parts, high-speed design, board layout, and transistor and op-amp circuits.

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