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DIY Stompboxes => Building your own stompbox => Topic started by: R.G. on April 21, 2004, 12:50:48 PM

Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: R.G. on April 21, 2004, 12:50:48 PM
"There Are No Electrons" by Kenn Amdahl.

Basic electronics theory in a palatable, easy to understand form.
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: Tim Escobedo on April 21, 2004, 04:06:38 PM
I think I remember Paul Perry recommending that book. I'll have to check it out.
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: Kleber AG on April 21, 2004, 04:23:31 PM
Any more info? $$$?  :lol:
Or some place I could read a brief description, subjects etc...

Thanks for the sugestion RG!
Kleber AG
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: smoguzbenjamin on April 21, 2004, 04:24:18 PM
What's an electron? :mrgreen:
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: Brian Marshall on April 21, 2004, 05:02:03 PM
there is no spoon
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: ian87 on April 21, 2004, 06:24:22 PM
Quote from: Brian Marshallthere is no spoon

(http://www.evasions.be/poemes/fumees/magritte-pipe_sm.jpg)
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: jrc4558 on April 21, 2004, 09:24:51 PM
Now in the spirit of Z. Freud

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...
:)
Happy build to all.
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: Peter Snowberg on April 21, 2004, 09:31:53 PM
(http://framer.barewalls.com/frames/bw/61/61105,61202,61602/27.5/19.75/preview/h3MA959p.jpg)      Ce n'est également pas une pipe.
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: MarkDonMel on April 21, 2004, 09:37:06 PM
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.
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: Ge_Whiz on April 22, 2004, 04:47:20 AM
I'm sorry, this is not a thread.
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: brett on April 22, 2004, 05:50:39 AM
QuoteThis 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:
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: Nasse on April 22, 2004, 10:58:59 AM
"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"
Title: Just to Know You're there...
Post by: petemoore on April 22, 2004, 11:20:03 AM
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...
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: Paul Marossy on April 22, 2004, 12:42:39 PM
"What's an electron?"

Why, that's where you plug things into the wall, of course.  :wink:
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: freebird1127 on April 22, 2004, 05:07:03 PM
Quote from: Paul Marossy"What's an electron?"

Wait.... wasn't GW Bush an elect-ron?
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: Samuel on April 22, 2004, 05:26:06 PM
Quote from: ian87
Quote from: Brian Marshallthere is no spoon

(http://www.evasions.be/poemes/fumees/magritte-pipe_sm.jpg)

Awesome.
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: csj on April 22, 2004, 06:35:27 PM
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.
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: The Tone God on April 22, 2004, 07:04:46 PM
Quote from: freebird1127Wait.... 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
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: BillyJ on April 22, 2004, 07:43:38 PM
Bought, thanks R.G.
Title: For Beginners: Read this.
Post by: brett on April 22, 2004, 09:55:39 PM
QuoteYa 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
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