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A classic (quirky) electronics textbook teaches basic electronics with analogies from high-school physics (mechanics and acoustics). Dynamical Analogies, by Ha
by base3 8y ago
A classic (quirky) electronics textbook teaches basic electronics with analogies from high-school physics (mechanics and acoustics).
Dynamical Analogies, by Harry Olson:
https://archive.org/details/DynamicalAnalogies https://archive.org/details/DynamicalAnalogies
It's in the public domain. I love it so much I had it printed and bound.
The book is based on lectures given in the 1930s & the math is nothing like what we use now. I can't follow a lot of it. But the tables are intuitive & the explanations are very clear.
- chias 8y agoMy intro to EE class used a nice analogue of water flow through a circuit composed of piping. We were encouraged to think of power as relating to a volume of water, resistance as relating to the thickness of a given piece of piping, voltage as a difference in height (i.e. water having potential energy for flowing downwards), and so on. This model was surprisingly good at easily conceptualizing how a current flows through a circuit.
- btrettel 8y agoHow is the math unlike anything used now? I have a BS in mechanical engineering and the math in this looks entirely standard to me. Then again, I did get a heavy dose of similarly theory as an undergraduate, and that's rarely taught outside of fluid dynamics and heat transfer. Part of this seems pretty similar to that. The math might be unusual for a CS graduate, but my impression is that many CS graduates seem unjustifiably afraid of continuous math, probably from a lack of familiarity. Often the continuous case is easier, so being familiar with both approaches can be useful.