Student's Manual for the Art of Electronics by Thomas C. Hayes and Paul Horowitz 614 pages. Softback. November 1989. This softback manual accompanies the Art of Electronics and is designed to help the reader (mainly, students) with practical bench-work and setting a series of exercises accompanying most the chapters of the main "Art" book. It therefore goes hand-in-hand with the Art of Electronics, and wasn't intended as a stand-alone text book. The Student's Manual offers a series of 23 practical labs with fundamental DC circuits, looking at Ohm's Law and Kirchoff's Laws, moving on to discuss Thevenin models in a readable way. It moves on to transistor basics, FETs, op.amps, regulators, then on to digital electronics - combination and sequential circuits are covered, followed by D-A and A-D systems. The CPU takes up the final third of the book, looking at many microprocessor fundamentals. The text is helped along by lucid, tidy sketches (instead of intimidating, formal circuit diagrams) of a typical scratchpad nature. It provides a reassuring practical aid to the main text and will be invaluable to undergraduates who purchased the "Art" as well. It is plastic spiral-bound to lay flat on benches. More capable students may not need the book, but it does help support the main text and is recommended, if budgets allow. Click here to order the Student's Manual from amazon.co.uk [ Back to Book Choices page ]