For Beginners: Read this.

[R.G.]

"There Are No Electrons" by Kenn Amdahl.

Basic electronics theory in a palatable, easy to understand form.

[Tim Escobedo]

I think I remember Paul Perry recommending that book. I'll have to check it out.

[Kleber AG]

Any more info? $$$?  :lol:
Or some place I could read a brief description, subjects etc...

Thanks for the sugestion RG!
Kleber AG

[smoguzbenjamin]

What's an electron? :mrgreen:

[Brian Marshall]

there is no spoon

[ian87]

there is no spoon

[jrc4558]

Now in the spirit of Z. Freud

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...

Happy build to all.

[Peter Snowberg]

     Ce n'est également pas une pipe.

[MarkDonMel]

Here it is on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0962781592/qid=1082597740/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-9604923-4275350?v=glance&s=books

Matt.

[Ge_Whiz]

I'm sorry, this is not a thread.

[brett]

This is not a thread

But surely it could be in a parallel universe.
Or maybe your brain is in a tank on an alien spaceship and fed drugs so that you *think* this is not a thread.
Solopsism rules! :wink:

[Nasse]

"There Are No Electrons"

Reminds me from my old chemistry teacher, we had limited amount of time and he said when we started the course

"Let´s forget the orbitals"

[petemoore]

Ya Can't tell [well at least not yet we can't and god fobid that we'd ever be able ot] which way they're gonna go anyway, so what's the use in thoerizing about it?
 I'ts pretty much a given that you can cause electron activity to increase or decrease using tried true methods...what should be good enough considering the electrons there are reports of quarks at subatomic levels.
 I'm pretty certain I just typed myself in over my head.
 Start messin' with that stuff too much and the earth might end up the size of a beach ball...

[Paul Marossy]

"What's an electron?"

Why, that's where you plug things into the wall, of course.  :wink:

[freebird1127]

"What's an electron?"

Wait.... wasn't GW Bush an elect-ron?

[Samuel]

there is no spoon

Awesome.

[csj]

Reading about the "Greenie" model finally made me pay attention...that and the fact that my edition had a pretty hot babe on the cover.

[The Tone God]

Wait.... wasn't GW Bush an elect-ron?

No, GW Bush is a moron but Bush was never elected in the first place.

Its fun being Canadian.

To add to the topic anything by Forrest M. Mims 3rd is good for beginners especially kids.

Andrew

[BillyJ]

Bought, thanks R.G.

[brett]

Ya Can't tell [well at least not yet we can't and god fobid that we'd ever be able ot] which way they're gonna go anyway, so what's the use in thoerizing about it?

I don't fool with tubes (tho my amp has 'em), but I suspect that to know how tubes work, it must help to consider electrons.  You just can't get "holes" to flow backwards through a tube (as far as I know).  

For the intermediate level learner (like myself), I feel that there's value in learning some jargon, and trying to understand the expert's version of events.  I've only recently figured out how transistors (and especially "piggybacked" transistors) *really* worked, and that was by thinking at the electron and hole level.  By "really" I mean finding out things like "What causes base current?",  "why is there a relationship between hFE and collector current?", and "why isn't hFE 10,000?".

cheers