Electric Circuits (Stick Figure Physics)

I'm an EE and a lot of us older folks learned circuits and electronics reading and studying the awesome hand-drawn diagrams of Forest Mims. Here's an example of one of his best:  The Forrest Mims Circuit Scrapbook, Vol 1 . Search Forest Mims for many of his others.I've tested nearly all of the circuits in this fine little book, and Sarah has done an outstanding job of double checking functionality, so you don't burn your workshop down. To be brutally honest, even some of Forest's had little resistor or power supply errors, so not many of these are as carefully vetted at this one. Back in the day these used to be copied from component manufacturer spec sheets, which sometimes were rushed to press, and some errors have continued for decades.Allen is a wonderful teacher, and I've read and reviewed most all her titles, and require them for our online tutorials. Her pedagogy is to teach, give a problem you can try, then show you the solution. She is frankly a perfectionist and loves her readers, and when we pointed out a graphic on another review that was a little difficult to read on Kindle, she corrected it instantly, on ALL her ebooks!If you're getting into Ohms law, circuit basics, etc. this is a wonderful place to start, whether for class or as a hobbyist. Sarah's value add is to give little "intuitive" examples with a wonderful array of diagrams so you "get" a concept in ways other than just the math. Her explanation of little diagrams showing position vs. momentum, for example, casually shows how this underlies all differential and integral calculus, and although fine for a High School audience, the point illustrates aspects of QED and Heisenberg uncertainty (the inability to resolve position and momentum simultaneously, or any conjugate Fourier for that matter-- time/frequency, sound, MRI images, etc.) in a way much more intuitive than taught in physics classes.Highly recommended, for the price, I'm getting my grandkids her whole series for school! You can find them all on her author's page.

I have a limited background in electrical work and old electronics and I am reading this Kindle book to help me in my study and review of the subject matter and it is very good in getting the information about circuits to the reader. I gave it 4 stars to start and I will return when I am through the book and can elaborate more. So far, the explanations do help me and a person reading this book will be lead through many descriptions of the circuits given and they are described and explained very well. It helps for me to have been exposed to working circuits in the past in electronics classes and some limited theory in an electronics engineering basic course or two in college, but there is still some explanation I will need on a few of the concepts of potential energy reviews as I am in need of more study here. To this old novice, the explanations don't always come off the pages as well as I would like, but I've found that is me and with some more study of it, it will eventually come. I like this book, for most of it's delivery and detail and I do recommend this Kindle book to someone who is studying topic of electrical engineering as this is a very well written book about circuits. Its descriptions of circuits and components, gives the reader a good amount of knowledge about electric circuits and it also delivers a little information concerning the generation of power and electricity. I like this book a lot and recommend it for one who is interested in circuit explanation, of which each builds knowledge you take with you to the next circuit you will study.

I have read a lot of books on electronic circuits and/or electrical engineering. I am what you would call a "Maker" who is self educated in electrical engineering. When I read this book, the author laid out the fundamentals in a way that I could easily grasp. The explanations and step by step processing of the math used to analyze circuits is second to none. This book should be priced at around $20-$30, but for the few bucks I paid, I gained a lifetime understanding of the magic behind electrical circuits, and that is priceless. Thank you Sarah Allen for making this book available to me and the world! I look forward to more titles from you.

Having taken 1 High School Physics class 2 decades ago and 2 Semesters of College physics a decade & a half ago, this book was more nostalgia than review. I do recommend this book for anyone who has taken and passed basic high school science classes and needs a basic knowledge of electricity.

This is a very neatly written book about circuits. Humble in its descriptions it does not attempt an encyclopedic treatise on the subject but gives the reader a fair amount of knowledge about the subject of electric circuits even dwelling a little bit about the essentials of electricity and its generation. I liked the book very much.

I have a background in electronics and I reviewed this e-book. I gave it 4 stars since the explanation does help a person to be exposed to circuit theory, but there still needs to be a more elaborate explanation on the potential energy section. To a novice, the present explanation is not completely clear with some of the diagram. But for the most part, I would still recommend this e-book to someone who is starting in this field.

Es necesario tener un conocimiento basico

Easy read and the examples are well thought out.

I found this useful but obviously only to a point The circuit information is good but it could have been improved by slightly more information

excellent