(Part 3) Best electrical & electronics books according to redditors
We found 1,080 Reddit comments discussing the best electrical & electronics books. We ranked the 417 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
electricity and magnetism by purcell and morin
edit: as a counter to the griffiths suggestion, i have read good things about modern electrodynamics by zangwill, but i have no personal experience with the book.
2015 EE grad here. Unless there's a stellar instructor, I would not enroll in Physics 202 if you've already met the requirement through AP. Granted I had a pretty horrible experience my freshman year with downright poor instructors, so I have some bias.
You'll do a review of circuit analysis in ECE 230 where the the analysis techniques are taught again in a much more methodical way from the outset. The physics department does not do the introductory courses justice in my opinion. You very well may have had a more thorough experience in your AP course. My only advice is to practice electrostatics, as the instructors for ECE 220 are hit and miss. The text for the electrodynamics sequence is probably still Ulaby (old version here). I'd recommend reviewing statics from there. It's a good reference and still on my desk at work.
Physics 202 or equivalent credit is also a prerequisite for ECE 235 - Solid State Electronics - so check out that course description as well. I applied more from Math 222 and ECE 320 to the wave theory of that course though. I don't think 202 really touched on it much.
So, be happy you don't have to sit through those two lectures, two discussions, and a three hour lab every week should you choose not to! Oh dear, and WebAssign. You won't ever have to use WebAssign! Consider also that 5 credits are worth quite a lot, and getting a jump on the core ECE curriculum may set you up to graduate early. There are so many better ways to use 5 credits in ECE/CS advanced electives down the road.
Congrats on the 5!
There's the Brian Wampler book that people always talk about in this sub, I don't know if it's exactly what you're looking for, but you should check it out anyway, it's a great source.
Fundamental of Photonics provides a good overview of photonics and optics.
Silicon Photonics Design: From Devices to Systems might be more in your alley if you're going for chip-based applications.
Heard some good things about Zangwill, I personally haven't read it though.
BTW, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm-4PltMB2A .
Here are 2 recommended from this forum. I haven't got to reading them yet but they were well reviewed.
https://www.amazon.com/Control-System-Design-Guide-Fourth/dp/0123859204/?pldnSite=1
https://www.amazon.com/Programmable-Logic-Controllers-Emphasis-Application/dp/097662592X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1465689582&sr=8-3&keywords=PLCs+an+emphasis
Shigley is good for machine design. As far as electronic controls and automation goes I'm not sure, but you would probably want to start out with some books on mechatronics and possibly mechanical control systems. Like this maybe.
Practice, practice, practice.
(Do this with the stuff you were assigned--if applicable--or try Schaum's Outline of Basic Circuits or 3000 Solved Problems in Electric Circuits)
I used Ulaby's Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics in my course. This book is light and fairly comprehensible (for an engineering textbook). However, if you don't refer to the textbook much, you're probably just as better off wikipedia'ing concepts you don't understand (in addition to any other supplemental materials you'll need to use).
The problem here, from what I can tell, is that you've relied too much on plug-and-chug for EMF1/Physics 2, and I'm willing to bet you did the same thing for Calculus 3 and differential equations. You probably know how to carry out a procedure, but not what procedure means. Since EMF is more abstract, understanding the meaning of the operations you use will help a lot more.
First, brush up on your math. It's not enough to know how to find the gradient, divergence, and curl of something. You'll need to understand abstractly what these operations represent. If you can't understand it, then you're missing something more fundamental, like "what is a derivative" (not just how to do it, but what does it mean when I take a derivative of something).
Second, brush up on your physics. Concepts can be described by some very general formulas, and those formulas can be transformed into a related concept (like Maxwell's equations). You'll have to use the math that you've reviewed to get a better "illustration" and understand why those operations are used to get the desired result.
So after reviewing all of that, apply them to your lecture notes. You do not truly understand the concepts unless you can do the math associated with them. The underlying theories are connected. You're starting at point A (information and associated formulas you should have already learned), and you need to get to point B (the theory). Figure out what assumptions they're making, why they're making those assumptions, and derive the formulas from point A to point B. This is how you answer "Explain how X might affect Y" questions.
Sometimes, you have all the little nuggets of information, but you don't know how to apply them. I suggest finding some worked-out problems from the internet or other textbooks from the library. The problems will probably not be the same, but it'll be similar. Break down the problem into conceptual parts, starting with information you know and are given, because different components will be scattered across many different problems.
I know that this advice may sound repeated and unhelpful, but there's no shortcut for classes that emphasize understanding. There's a reason why your old study methods don't work: plug-and-chug is basically rote memorization, and it's easier to teach and test for. The good news is that you've learned the fundamental concepts before; it's just filed away deep within your brain. The bad news is that you have to figure out what it is that you know, fill in the gaps for things you don't know, and then apply them in new ways. Once you get over the initial bump of difficulty, hopefully you'll start seeing the patterns, and the rest of EMF will be much easier from there!
For electrodynamics, it has to be Cheng: Field and Wave Electromagnetics
Allen-Bradley PLCs: An Emphasis on Design and Application
If you're working with allen bradley PLCs, this is an incredible book. There is a thicker version that encompasses more brands of PLCs. I have both and they are incredible books that take you from zero to advanced quite fast. It's very detailed and encompasses most instructions. They touch on networking but if you are looking for an incredibly detailed book on it, I am actually looking for the same
I used this one for my electromagnetics course. The textbook (and the nature of the material) is really calculus heavy. However, if you can learn how to handle triple integrals, and the gradient operator, you should be fine. On the upside, it's a very visual book with lots of pictures.
For circuits, I'm currently using this. It's not as well done as the Hibbeler's statics/dynamics but it is very light on calculus.
As you're an engineer, Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers might be of interest. It's written by a EE professor at Stanford.
A potentially nice optional feature of this is that Stanford offers a free online 9-week course based on this book with the author giving the online class. The latest offering of the course started Oct 4 and goes until Dec 16. If you're interested in that, I don't know if you could take it starting on your own now with access to the videos and course materials, or if you'd have to wait for the next offering. Here is a review by someone who took this course a couple years ago.
Disclaimer: I haven't read that book or taken this online class myself; it's just a potential idea that might be a fit or not
ah I see. Well you definitely are on the right track by doing mesurements while you are building. I am not really the right person to ask because Im still in the beginning stages but I also bought: Boylestad https://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Circuit-Analysis-Robert-Boylestad/dp/0133923606 (a much cheaper older version that I found for about $10 I think you are aware one nice thing about learning electronics from scratch is that the basics, the most important things, were discovered a long time ago so you can get a great wealth of information for very cheap....) This is pretty much, well like exactly what youd use if you took a college course on circuit analysis, much great information on the physics and basics of linear and non-linear circuits, it can be pretty dry though, but that is what you probably really need if you want to really "grok" what is going on in a circuit, i.e. using OHMs/Thienevin laws etc and Loop analysis, looking at the numbers from and finding missing values when you only have say the voltage and current etc
This one https://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-Journey-Amplifiers-Randomicity/dp/1449344046/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=1P86DOCJID6WO&keywords=make+electronics+2nd+edition&qid=1557865653&s=books&sprefix=make+elec%2Cstripbooks%2C159&sr=1-1-spons&psc=1 which is definitely very good because it includes actual images of breadboards (which are not always intuitive even though very simple to impliment, really that has to do with human error, thats why its all about trying it out/getting yr hands dirty!) and some other stuff. I know there are a TON of people out there why swear by the Ray Wilson websites and books, I bought one and just have been into other things but when I get back into it I know I am going to go back to those Wilson projects...
Another REALLY awesome thing I just remembered: EveryCircuit App, super great becasue it shows live demonstration of signal flows...
Man, i hated verilog. If you need any books if i remeber we used https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Digital-Logic-Verilog-Design/dp/0077211642/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=fundamentals+of+logic+design&qid=1573737210&sr=8-7 and https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Design-RTL-VHDL-Verilog/dp/0470531088/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=digital+design+frank&qid=1573737251&sr=8-1.
A readable reference I've found useful in debugging EMI/RFI issues is:
https://www.amazon.com/Noise-Reduction-Techniques-Electronic-Systems/dp/0471850683/
It answers a lot of questions regarding different ways (trade-offs) to diagnose & address EMI/RFI issues.
At my school we used the following (an older edition when I was there):
Fundamentals of Digital Logic - Verilog
There is a VHDL version if you want to focus on learning that language.
Fundamentals of Digital Logic - VHDL
I remember the book did the job fine, and it came in handy as a reference when I took more advanced courses in Computer Organization and Digital VLSI. It wouldn't be a bad idea to get a Schaums guide in digital logic to give you more practice, and worked out examples.
If you put in the time and effort you can pick it up fairly well. If you really want to get into design and modding and stuff I'd say find a few fairly simple circuits and socket a bunch of the components so you can see how changing various parts impacts the sound. This is supposed to be an interesting book from Brian Wampler. Most of the negative reviews basically bash it for basically taking informations and schematics you can find online and putting them into a book, but the analysis and organization helps you work through some of this stuff. This is another good one too from Craig Anderton. The Anderton tube sound fuzz is the basis for one of my got to distortions.
I think it is this book Splunlen is refering to: https://www.amazon.com/How-Modify-Guitar-Pedals-how/dp/1434801063
Please note that there seems to be a new version out soon.
You should first decide what you want the thing to do.
Read this:
https://www.amazon.com/Electronics-Dummies-Cathleen-Shamieh/dp/0470286970
Or check youtube for intro to electronics/circuits videos, there are tons. You'll need to be able to read an electrical schematic, since you're going to have to create one.
Then get yourself a microcontroller like a Raspberry Pi.
Then watch some coding tutorials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrUvhzz5bRs
You'll need a multimeter, a soldering iron, wire strippers, crimping tools, basic hand tools. You should also watch some videos on how to properly fabricate wiring harnesses. You'll need a working knowledge of fasteners and materials.
Don't set out to make a robot your first project. Start small, like getting an LED to spell out "Hello World" in morse code or something. Move up to something with one moving part that does only one thing. Up the complexity of your projects as you go.
I used alonso and finn:
http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Marcelo-Alonso/dp/0201565188
It's big, it's fat, but it has a lot. It's not the best book around, but you'll find everything you need from basic mechanics to statistical physics, thermodynamics and basic quantummechanics. It builds up to the equations of Maxwell quite nicely, however in general the structure is quite flawed. I wouldn't recommend it if you like them fancy books with shiney pages and purple boxes with "Interesting note!". It's black and white, bit outdated, very dry, and hard to follow. This book was rarely used in the US, but it was a huge hit in Europe. The first edition was written in the sixties, this is the 1992 (sixth? seventh?) edition.
On a sidenote though, if you DO like fancy pictures and easy math, AND want to learn astronomy, I can recommend the following book:
http://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Perspective-5th-Jeffrey-Bennett/dp/0321505670/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239527234&sr=1-1
It is very airy, intended for non-physicist use actually. It's quite embarassing sometimes to read it as a second bachelor in physics, but it is a breeze to read none the less. It goes over everything from basic earth rotation and it's consequences, up to black holes and quasars. It's not very mathmatical, it's just the storytelling behind the theory, with sometimes a bit of math in a small box, which is still sometimes even at highschool level.
If you are looking to become a specialist in quantum mechanics, I used to following book:
http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Mechanics-2nd-B-H-Bransden/dp/0582356911/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239527384&sr=1-1
It's quite interesting, and it explains everything. It starts off with black body radiation, then starts with wave mechanics, and then you end up at matrix mechanics. It does require a lot of mathematical insight though, even though some basic principles such as dirac distrubtion, and fourier transformations are explain in the appendix.
If you want a bible to carry around with all the math help you need:
http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Methods-Physicists-George-Arfken/dp/0120598760/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239527524&sr=1-1
This is the book I own. It's a bible, I can guarantee you that. It's not meant to start by page 1 and read it through till the end. It's something you use to regularly look stuff up in. It has everything you need for an undergraduate course in physics. It also requires some first year calculus knowledge though. It starts off by assuming you know everything about integrals and derivatives. I think the rest is explained though. You even get a small introduction to physics-applied group theory. If you ever need a polynome, it has everything from Bessel, to Chebyshev.
Damnit, I gotta lay off reddit just after taking my concentration pills...
Okay, you're definitely at the beginning. I'll clarify a few things and then recommend some resources.
I feel like I've gone off on a few tangents, but just ask for clarification if you want. I'd be happy to point you towards other resources.
According to Much ADO about almost nothing: Man's encounter with the electron, pages 193,194: (emphasis mine)
>"Bill [William] went to Hollywood high school and then on the the California Institute of Technology, where he studied physics. In 1932, with a B.SC., he went to MIT on a teaching fellowship and emerged four years later with a Ph.D. Then he joined Bell Laboratories..."
In that case, I'd recommend a companion text:
Controlling Conducted Emissions by Design (J Fluke)
Ott has some great books as well (the book on EMC):
Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering
Noise Reduction Techniques in Electronic Systems
SCHAUMS used to have their own octagonal, rotating rack in bookstores. Just like comic books in drugstores.
Maybe you want the precursor book too
Let's start with the basics. When you first start working with op-amps, they give you a couple of golden rules: 1.) Gain-bandwidth product is infinite, and 2.) when there's a feedback loop, the voltage at the inverting and non-inverting terminal are equal. What they don't often tell you is that there is no such thing in real life.
Non-ideal traits for an op-amp include things like offset voltage, bias current, offset temperature drift, and limited gain-bandwidth product. You can think of offset voltage as an extra little DC voltage source sitting on the non-inverting input, and bias current as a little current source sitting between the two input terminals. Maybe these are the non-idealities you had in mind. These shouldn't throw you off too badly, though -- if you can solve an op-amp circuit normally, the easiest thing to do is use superposition to solve for each input separately, then combine them to get the response for the whole thing. I'm sure you can google for how to do this.
Nearly all op-amps are designed to have a huge open-loop gain over a small frequency band, but they are way unstable and hardly usable as such. That's why we use feedback loops. What a feedback loop essentially does is sacrifice the high open-loop gain for a lower, more stable closed-loop gain over a larger frequency band. That's where the gain-bandwidth product comes into play -- if you have an op-amp with 80 dB of open-loop gain over 100 kHz and a cutoff slope of -20 dB/decade, you can sacrifice 40 dB of gain and use it to amplify signals over 10 MHz instead.
My best advice is to ditch the book and use google to your advantage. I found this note that will probably help you with what you're trying to do.
Also, try searching for app notes on op-amps on semiconductor manufacturers' websites. National Semiconductor, TI, Linear Technology (and yes, even Analog Devices), have tons of app notes that can explain nonlinearities. Another good resource is this book.
Enjoy.
Probably some combination of Griffiths, Jackson, and Zangwill
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Semiconductor-Devices-Donald-Neamen/dp/0072987561
The description of the problem doesn't call for latch/unlatch. In general, never use latch/unlatch if you can get away with it.
Start Stop
I:1/1 I:1/2 B3:0/0
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B3:0/0 |
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That should help with a start.
It is expensive, but my professors book was great when I was in school.
http://www.amazon.com/Programmable-Logic-Controllers-Emphasis-Application/dp/097662592X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381409292&sr=8-1&keywords=programmable+logic+controllers+erickson
Edit: well the format didn't come through very well. Use this link to get an example of a start/stop circuit. http://tinyurl.com/kpw2ynh. A would be Start, B would be Stop, and C would be B3:0/0
this?
The IC Op-Amp Cookbook by Walter Jung has hooked thousands of engineers and hobbyists. Strongly recommended.
Like dtfgator said start looking through the [IEEE PES] (http://www.ieee-pes.org/) stuff. I am currently and undergrad doing some research in this, so I don't have much field experience. My experience so far has just been setting up simulations (some hypothetical and modeled our campus grid) in Power World and ATP. I'm sure there are many other programs that have advantages over these two but it's what I'm familiar with.
Knowledge of how to design and analyze a power system is an obvious necessity. I have not designed anything yet, but have learned fundamentals from this book which also has a lot of examples to use or set up in Power World. There are also a few courses on youtube somewhere.
> Natural gas and renewables are much cleaner than coal, but a lot of peoples' power is still coming from coal.
That's not how the grid works dude. Your post covers about 5% of the actual picture here. It's late, you'll have to read some books, I don't want to get into this now. But read these: (The Bin Wu one is fucking amazing, read it twice)
http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470593652.html
https://www.amazon.ca/Analysis-Electric-Machinery-Drive-Systems/dp/047114326X
This wouldn't hurt:
https://www.amazon.com/Power-System-Analysis-Design-Fifth/dp/1111425779/ref=pd_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=JWX7BQ73ZBNN7BCED44E (I have the 3rd edition, but the content is more or less the same)
Source: EE (CEAB)
EDIT: Oh! My point was...total shitpost on your end
i'm an EET major and this is our AC/DC beginning circuits book.
sometimes the way they explain things can be a little confusing, personally sometimes i didn't understand until i did the accompanying labs. overall though i felt i learned a lot from it.
even though this was a freshman class and i'm now a junior, i still use it sometimes.
Wow, thanks for the Reddit gold, that's awesome! It's been my pleasure to have the discussion with you. As for a good textbook, I have a few suggestions. For a pretty good broad look at optics from both classical and quantum points of view, give Saleh and Teich a look. For purely quantum stuff, my undergrad textbook was by Griffiths, which I enjoyed quite a bit, though I recall the math being a bit daunting when I took the course. Another book I've read that I liked quite a bit was by Shankar. I felt it was a bit more accessible. Finally, if you want quantum mechanics from the source, Dirac is a bit of a standard. It's elegant, but can be a bit tough.
skin depth is the distance a wave penetrates a conductor when it is incident on it's surface. The wave itself doesn't have inherent skin depth. it has to do with when a electromagnetic wave comes in contact with another medium.
source: http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Applied-Electromagnetics-Fawwaz-Ulaby/dp/0132139316
Page 334 in chapter 7 i believe is where it defines skin depth. Incase you want to find a PDF and look it up yourself. This book also gives in depth descriptions of transmission lines, and fiber optics.
My university uses this book for introductory quantum physics. It seems to be well-liked - I'd consider it.
Control Systems Engineering, 6th Ed, Nise
Modern Control Systems, 12th Ed, Dorf & Bishop
Automatic Control Systems, 9th Ed, Golnaraghi & Kuo
Control Systems Design: An Introduction To State-Space Methods
Control Handbook, 2nd Ed
Those are some that I have. The Nise book is excellent, the Dorf book is as well, it was my primary text for Controls I & II, supplemented by the Kuo book. The latter has more on digital controls. All of those three focus primarily on classical control theory and methods, but the Nise book goes into more depth on modern methods. I got the state-space methods book because it's more focused. The Control Handbook is a beastly collection, but it's very broad, hence not possessed of much depth. It's more of a reference than a text.
If you want to dive deeply into PID control, look no further than Akstrom and Hagglund's works on the subject, it doesn't get much better.
Source: I'm a degreed EE that specialized in control systems and a licensed control systems PE.
Double slit experiment for the most basic explanation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc
And then, just get this book. Everything that I learned from the internet informally was covered in chapter 1 of this book:
Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers:
Ahh, then perhaps try another book (or wikipedia, which tends to have good explanations). I can recommend:
Hu - Modern Semiconductor Devices for Integrated Circuits
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/Book-Chapters-and-Lecture-Slides-download.html
Sze - Physics of Semiconductor Devices
http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Semiconductor-Devices-Simon-Sze/dp/0471143235
Kasap - Principles of Electronic Materials and Devices
http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Electronic-Materials-Devices-Kasap/dp/0073104647/
Neamen - An Introduction to Semiconductor Devices
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Semiconductor-Devices-Donald-Neamen/dp/0072987561/
And for entertainment value, Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics:
http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm
If these aren't available in your library, you can find perfectly good older editions at abebooks.com for less than $20 with shipping.
The semiconductor will always be at equilibrium ( n*p = n_i) unless acted on by an external energy source, such as a bias voltage or light source. No external source = equilibrium.
Through the knowledge based in the books: Communication Systems - Carlson and Control Systems Engineering
... I have found that one can find within a specified accuracy and equivalent system. One method I know of is to expand the mathematical series into a form known as a Taylor series truncated to a polynomial to the order of your choosing, which yields sufficiently accurate approximation. The Laplace transform is applied to the Taylor polynomial. The Inverse Laplace transform is then applied to the transformed Taylor polynomial. This results in beautifully factored results; often useful for stability analysis such as the Rooth-horwitz or graphically plotting the Poles and Zeros.
If your math-foo is strong, perhaps the following link will better describe the process of sensitivity analysis after such transformations of been applied Christiansen
The power of this occurs because the final form after an inverse transform is repetitious, and referenced through a table one piece at a time; resulting in a visually appealing equivalent equation.
Sorry about the quality of the links, Its quite hard to find relevant internet available sources on topics which have pre-requisits of Matrix Algebra and Differential Equations. If these topics interest you, consider applying to a Engineering University, cause entire Junior/Senior level lesson plans are devoted to teaching how to take measurement data and converting them into a form of which we may analyze them. We prefer the factored form, for it has some of the easiest to compute analysis. Most of the links I provided already assume that one knows how to convert into the factored form, or more specifically forms which come out of the inverse Laplace transform.
>So, I prefer perhaps a longer definition like "plant growth from light."
No, this is photosynthesis. Photomorphogenesis (photo morpho genesis) is how plants react and develop to light. Photosynthesis only has about 60 metabolic steps and I consider it easy to understand compared to photomorphogenesis. There is some interesting quantum mechanics involved with photosynthesis. FRET measurements are vital to my research in determining photosynthesis efficacy by spectra for different leaves. This is a good book to read if you go to that level.
>there is a lot unknown about this
Much, much more than you realize. A plant may have over 1000 light sensitive interacting proteins. There are at least 5 different phytochrome proteins. PHY-E works differently than the other 4. Arabidopsis thaliana, a model plant and "lab rat", has about 1400 light sensitive proteins. The function of the vast majority is still unknown.
>ratio of red to far-red goes into determining a plant's stockiness versus tall/thinness
Blue plays a bigger role through the phototropin proteins in every plant I've worked with.
>more blue light = more leaf expansion
Depends on the plant. You often end up with crinkled leaves since the leaf vein cells may not expand as much as other leaf cells. I got basil leaves to grow 4 times larger than normal using a minus blue light source (warm white 24 watt LED with a filter). I have generally found the opposite to be true- blue creates smaller leaves.
http://imgur.com/HzXKreR
Normally, sweet basil will not grow without some blue light. In this case I used blue light only on the stems. This is known as Selective Light Training.
In photomorphogenesis there's what's known as the "blue wall" and the "3 finger action response" (google them). 470nm greatly affects most blue sensitive proteins. 490nm does not- at least the phototropin proteins.
You're overlooking green/yellow/orange. Look at the front page of the lighting guide. This spectra also boosts auxin levels and important in the biosynthesis of ethylene, another plant hormone. There's a good reason that the spectra of HPS does so well in flowering.
>what is the "best" ratio of red | far-red | blue lighting? How are the different per plant type?
Hate to say this but it depends on the individual strain. Purple basil can react differently than lettuce leaf basil or sweet basil. Short answer- I don't know, there's hundreds of thousands of different strains of plants. I've seen testing at the local research university plant growth lab where white light beat color LEDs with sweet basil.
100 watt per square foot for CFLs for flowering. I always encourage people to use a light meter. I never give watts per plant, only watts per square foot. Veging takes about half the light as flowering.
>How much should the light be dispersed? Is there a chart or something that gives more detail on the amount of lighting and lighting dispersion?
Use your light meter. The reflector/lens/etc makes a big difference. In the lighting guide I talk about reflectors for CFLs.
>Are these good questions?
Quite good.
> What other questions should I ask with the goal of better understanding a practical grow light setup to optimize photomorphogenesis?
Try different combos of wavelengths.
>Do you have any recommendations for the setup of these experiments?
Stick with small plants and use 7 for the experiment and 7 for the control.
Micro Tom tomato
Lettuce including dwarf lettuce
Dwarf sugar peas
Keep in mind that a lux sensor/meter works great with white LEDs, would not trust them with color LEDs. The cheapest meter that can come somewhat close for good measurements with color LEDs is this $200 quantum light meter. It will not reliably work with 660nm LEDs. For that you need a $800 Licor meter. This Licor meter will not work with far red LEDs. For that you need a spectrometer. Mine cost about $2700 including fiber optic cable, two sensor heads and NIST traceable calibration.
You can always use any light sensor for relative measurements as long as the light source is the same. But keep in mind that with a true lux sensor, 620nm will give 3 times higher readings than 660nm although the radiant flux may be the same. Never get luminous and radiant flux confused.
You can also buy quantum light sensors in the $150 range. These "low" cost sensors will also not reliably read 660nm and far red LEDs. Multiple places sell them.
http://solarlight.com/product/par-quantum-light-sensor-pma-1132/
I have well over a hundred research papers/pdf files on plant lighting. I'm going to try to dig up a particularly good one. Forgot the name.
Good book:
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Radiometry-Photometry-Optoelectronics-library/dp/0890066787
Do you by chance have an Andriod smart phone or tablet? There's a lot of good apps that would be of use to you.
edit- a little bit here and there
That paper I wanted you to read- google "The Guiding Force of Photons"
Hey,
ECE212.
ECE241 - You learn C++ and OOP fundamentals in this course. We didn't have a textbook when I took it. Just online notes.
ECE241 - Stephen Brown is a prof at UofT and a great lecturer. I also still have this book if you are interested in buying from me!
ECE216 - Might still have this book if you're interested.
ECE221 - Professor Stickle probably will teach this course. Great lecturer but his tests/exams are notoriously hard.
ECE243 - Did not have a textbook when I took the course. Prof. Moshovos provided course notes online.
ECE297 - No textbook for this course. It's like a mini design project that lasts all semester where you have to build a concurrency based storage server in a team of 3. Picking a good team of programmers and technical writers is imperative.
Protip: Next time check TUSBE for textbook names and buying second-hand textbooks.
PS: Congrats on getting through 1st year, 2nd year will be tough.
I'm a chemist doing some work on x-ray spectroscopy, and I was recommended this book by my teacher who is a physicist.
this book will be enough .
For the absolute basics I'm a big fan of Nathan Ida's "Engineering Electromagnetics". Lots of worked examples, clearly written, even has a multi-variable calculus review as the first chapter.
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https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Electromagnetics-Ida-Nathan/dp/8181282736/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1538005228&sr=8-2-fkmr0&keywords=nathan+idea+electromagnetics
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My university teaches from David Cheng's "Field and Wave Electromagnetics". I'm not a big fan of this, but it's what we use for our first course in EM.
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https://www.amazon.com/Field-Wave-Electromagnetics-David-Cheng/dp/0201128195/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538005311&sr=8-1&keywords=cheng+electromagnetics&dpID=51QAAAV1DVL&preST=_SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch
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When I took the same class a long time back, we used Inan and Inan's "Engineering Electromagnetics". I think it's a little better written than Cheng, but still not great.
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https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Electromagnetics-Umran-S-Inan/dp/0805344233/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538005413&sr=8-1&keywords=inan+electromagnetics&dpID=511yMwfuVSL&preST=_SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch
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If you want to get into more practical applications, there are a whole bunch of other books I'd recommend. There are also a couple "classic" physics type books on EM that we do use pretty regularly, but those are more at the graduate level.
I have Schaum's Outline of Basic Circuit Analysis, Second Edition (Schaum's Outlines) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071756434/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_yPCCDbD3H3KR6
Sorry I don't know how to embed links with app.
Are you trying to learn how to read the schematics better or build new circuits?
Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics by Stan Gibilisco
ISBN:978-0133356816Title:Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics (7th Edition)$3 for .pdfI'll definitely agree that the Coax guides are quite dry and could benefit from substantial editing/reorganization of the material to make it clear what information goes directly towards the test objectives vs what's extra/background information.
ExHAMiner is fine for practice testing (once you've already learned the material), but suffers from the same fundamental flaw as this RAC guide: it's encouraging rote learning over understanding. That certainly helps you pass the test and get on the air quickly, but you'll likely lack of lot of the depth. ExHAMiner is also out of date for the current ISED question bank.
Another great book resource is Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics. Extremely well written and theory heavy, it's not specific to amateur radio, but it still has a good deal of information on the subject.
https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Mechanics-2nd-B-H-Bransden/dp/0582356911
Need solutions manual not the book.
$5. Price negotiable
My school had a course that all EEs took that covered the basics like ideal transformers and induction motors. Then there were power specific courses that got into more detail with phasors, per unit, etc. This was the book a few of the power specific classes at my school used.
Noise Reduction Techniques in Electronic Systems, 2nd Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0471850683/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_GhV1Cb4EFNT1Z
This is a good book. The book deals with understanding and mitigating unintended RF emissions (or noise) generates due to operating electronic systems. In short, currents and voltages in the board caused due to field propagation, if not handled correctly, ends up radiating out.
A history of the discovery of electricity: Much Ado About Almost Nothing - Man's Encounter With the Electron, by Hans Carmenzin, the inventor of the 555 timer.
Downvoter: do you hate electricity, or do you hate the 555?