Fundamentals in Analog Circuits, by Larry M. Silverberg and Chau M. Tran is a practical book and kit that covers the most basic aspects of electronics, upon which one builds knowledge in electronics. The book and kit is for instructional use in labs at universities and community colleges. It is also for corporate training and for the hobbyist who wants to learn electronics independently. In addition, see the online information about professional certification.
Larry M. Silverberg and Chau M. Tran are professors in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. They were the original developers of the analog circuits book/kit, which has been in use now for more than twenty-five years.
Larry M. Silverberg is a theoretical and applied dynamicist. He is fond of saying that he likes the very practical and the very theoretical – where the goals are less compromising. Dynamics is about the motion of bodies, whether it is the electrons moving in wires, which give us an entire electronics industry, or it is the photons in space moving at light speed past the stars, giving us interstellar communication. He has published a number of practical and theoretical books about these things and today, much of the focus of his work is on explaining science and engineering topics in simple terms, to broad audiences who would otherwise find these topics difficult to understand.
Introduction: Getting Ready
Chapter 1: Resistor Circuits
Chapter 2: Resistor and Capacitor Circuits
Chapter 3: Algebraic Operations
Chapter 4: Rate and Area Operations