Book review: Electronic Circuits for All
“capacity / -ies” appears everywhere where capacitance is meant, and “grad” in the circuit diagrams should be taken to read: degree(s). Remarkably though, the word capacitor is correctly used throughout the book. Although a spell check of the text is unlikely to flag a large amount of mistakes, the correct electronics terms are often missing, and grammar compliance is weak. A simple sentence like this one:
... Diode D2 is designed for instantaneous discharge of capacitor C2 when the “correct” code is dialed. ...
may be misinterpreted to mean that a special diode got designed for the circuit. More likely though, the word “in” or — lengthier — “into the circuit” is missing between “designed” and “for”, the diode being a dead common 1N4004 (!) as revealed by the referring schematic.
In another place I saw two diodes, three resistors and a capacitor described as a “chain of elements” when a “network” is probably meant. Here, a case of hyper formal language which is not wrong per se but really unwanted and possibly confusing as there is no such thing as a chain structure in that circuit.
All’s not well with the layout or pagination either. The index at the end if the book proved erratic on three of ten terms I was trying to find information on.
That said, once you are accustomed to, and aware of, the occasional oddity with the tech-language
... Diode D2 is designed for instantaneous discharge of capacitor C2 when the “correct” code is dialed. ...
may be misinterpreted to mean that a special diode got designed for the circuit. More likely though, the word “in” or — lengthier — “into the circuit” is missing between “designed” and “for”, the diode being a dead common 1N4004 (!) as revealed by the referring schematic.
In another place I saw two diodes, three resistors and a capacitor described as a “chain of elements” when a “network” is probably meant. Here, a case of hyper formal language which is not wrong per se but really unwanted and possibly confusing as there is no such thing as a chain structure in that circuit.
All’s not well with the layout or pagination either. The index at the end if the book proved erratic on three of ten terms I was trying to find information on.
That said, once you are accustomed to, and aware of, the occasional oddity with the tech-language
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Jan Buiting (1958) has been active in electronics and ways of expressing it since the age of 15. Attempts at educating Jan formally have so far yielded an F-class radio amateur license, an MA degree in English, a Tek Guru award, and various certificates in ele... >>
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