{"id":1101,"date":"2023-09-16T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/09\/16\/the-art-of-electronics-by-horowitz-and-hill-first-in-a-series-of-blog-posts-on-this-great-book\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:04","slug":"the-art-of-electronics-by-horowitz-and-hill-first-in-a-series-of-blog-posts-on-this-great-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/09\/16\/the-art-of-electronics-by-horowitz-and-hill-first-in-a-series-of-blog-posts-on-this-great-book\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Art of Electronics” by Horowitz and Hill (First in a Series of Blog Posts on this Great Book)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Paul Horowitz<\/div>\n

Oh man, this book is so good. You really just need to buy it now. I put it in the Amazon link to the right.<\/b><\/p>\n

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The Imsai guy reminded me of this book, and pointed out that earlier editions are more reasonably priced, so I got the second edition (looks like 1980, reprinted many times through 1988). Dean KK4DAS got one too (I think he also got the second edition). <\/b><\/p>\n

Lest there be any doubt that this book is for us, first let me point to the pictures of Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill. https:\/\/artofelectronics.net\/about\/<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Winfield Hill <\/div>\n
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Just from the pictures, you can tell that these guys have THE KNACK. And — get this — THEY ARE BOTH PROFESSORS AT HARVARD. Wow. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Their web page<\/a> explains where the book came from: <\/b><\/div>\n

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Dean KK4DAS and I have already started sharing quotes from the book: <\/div>\n
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Referring to other books, H and H write: “Much of the favorite pedagogy of beginning textbooks is quite unnecessary, and, in fact, is not used by practicing engineers, while useful circuitry and analysis lies hidden in application notes, engineering journals, and hard-to-get data books.” <\/div>\n
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“Thus, the treatment of this book reflect our philosophy that electronics, as currently practiced, is basically a simple art, a combination of some basic laws, rules of thumb, and a large bag of tricks. For these reasons we have omitted entirely the usual discussion of solid state physics, the h-parameter model of transistors, and complicated network theory, and reduced to the bare minimum the mention of load lines and the s-plane. The treatment is largely non-mathematical, with strong encouragement of circuit brainstorming, with mental (or, at most, back-of-the-envelope) calculation of circuit values and performance.” <\/div>\n
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Stay tuned. There is a lot more coming about this wonderful book. <\/div>\n

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Paul Horowitz Oh man, this book is so good. You really just need to buy it now. I put it in the Amazon link to the right. OVER HERE >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Imsai guy reminded me of this book, and pointed out that earlier editions are more reasonably priced, so I got the second edition (looks … Continue reading ““The Art of Electronics” by Horowitz and Hill (First in a Series of Blog Posts on this Great Book)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,50,239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-art-of-electronics","category-books","category-the-knack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}