| ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 101 Everything You Should Have Learned in School, But Probably Didn't Darren Ashby Amsterdam: Elsevier, December 2005 |
Rating: 4.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-7506-7812-4 | ||||
| ISBN 0-7506-7812-7 | 332pp. | SC/LF/GSI | $43.95 | |
| Page x: | "If you are like me, you have found a few really good books that you often pull off shelf in time's of need." |
| Missing word, unwanted apostrophe: S/B "pull off the shelf in times". |
| Page x: | "I don't mean to knock the collegiate educational system, but it seems to me that too often student's can pass a class in school with the 'assimilate and regurgitate' method." |
| Unwanted apostrophe: S/B "students". |
| Page xiii: | "For any of you I missed and feel neglected in not being thanked, give me a call. I'll buy you lunch!." |
| Missing word: S/B "I missed and who feel neglected". |
| Page 3: | "...you may think 'Why didn't you just type 97 into your calculator a couple of times and press equal?'" |
| Incomplete procedure: S/B something else, depending on whether a standard or RPN calculator is used. |
| Page 6: | "What you need is a supersoaker 29 gagillion, with a half-inch water stream that shoots 30 feet." |
| Indeed: how else could you defend yourself from Teal'C? <G> (But I'd make this "a Supersoaker Gazillion 29".) |
| Page 10: | "For example, what happens to the impedance of a capacitor as frequency increases?" |
| Introduces undefined term: S/B defined. |
| Pages 18-19: | "I wanted to get a good reading but disturb the circuit as little as possible, so I chose a 0.1Ω resistor." |
| The diagrams all show ".01 OHM". |
| Page 134: | "Here is way you might consider driving one..." |
| Missing word: S/B "one way". |
| Page 142: | "This is digial." |
| Spelling: S/B "digital". |
| Page 156: | "Equation 4.2, supposedly for torque constant of a permanent-magnet DC motor, is identical to equation 4.1." |
| Inadvertent duplication: S/B corrected. |
| Page 162: | "If this is the case, you can use another speed control approximation call IR compensation." |
| Missing word: S/B "I call IR compensation". |
| Page 164: | "The following is what I have pieced together in my own mind, . . . then ousted to my readers in a form I hope is easy to understand." |
| Word choice: S/B "posted to my readers" (perhaps). |
| Page 165: | "A PWM is fed into a switch..." |
| Missing word: S/B "PWM signal is fed". |
| Page 168: | "This is known as electronic commutation as opposed to brush commutation, as we have already learned about." |
| Phrasing: S/B "as opposed to brush commutation, which we have already learned about" or "as opposed to brush commutation, as we have already learned" or just "as opposed to brush commutation". |
| Page 170: | "Printers use them by the bucket load." |
| I may be overcautious here, but I feel this should be reworded to avoid the interpretation of "Printers" as people: S/B "Computer printers". |
| Page 172: | "You will see them in all sots of places, running compressors in a refrigerator to timing the icemaker circuit in the same fridge." |
| Missing word: S/B "from running compressors". Also I would make it "from running the compressor" since few household refrigerators have more than one. |
| Page 172: | "Back before the 'day of the diode' they were used in millions of clocks." |
| Vague: S/B "day of the light-emitting diode". |
| Page 189: | "Many inductors are warped around some type of ferrous core." |
| Spelling: S/B "wrapped". |
| Page 206: | Legend on Figure 5.1: "internal impeadance of 10 meg" |
| Spelling: S/B "impedance". (No doubt the author saw the problem and made half this change.) |
| Page 221: | "The tips can wear dur to the corrosive nature of the solder removal." |
| Typo: S/B "due". |
| Page 233: | "However, we knew there were points on the PCB that, if they were shorted by even a few megaohms, could make the circuit repeat the problems that we were seeing." |
| Spelling: S/B "megohms". (I know it's non-standard, but that's the practice.) |
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