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Just the facts, Ma'am
In the Introduction to the 'Strange Theory of Light and Matter' Feynman tells us that what he likes to talk about is the "part of physics that is known, rather than a part that is unknown." And he goes on to give us a thumbnail sketch, a "physicist's history of physics," which shows how physicist's, in their quest to describe the world, continually reduce a group of seemingly unrelated phenomenon to a single phenomenon. So heat and sound were found, thanks to Newton, to be reducible to laws of motion, while electricity, magnetism and light were reducible to Maxwell's electromagnetic wave. In this way physicist's explain the world.
The shortest, clearest and "most physical" description of quantum theory without compromise in the accuracy
I had read a few books on quantium physics before, some are serious textbooks, and some are books for general readers, without even a single equation. This book, catagorized as the latter case, is the shortest, clearest and "most physical" description I've ever read.
Whew! Worth the effort...
Feynman believed that if you truly understand a concept than you should be able to express it in a way that any educated person can understand it. Thus you have a smallish book (based on lectures) on some of the most obtuse subjects in physics in a way that is entertaining, readable, and understandable.
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Subjects:  1. Electrons    2. Photons    3. Physics    4. Quantum Theory    5. Quantum electrodynamics    6. Science    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Atomic & molecular physics    9. Chemistry    10. History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science    11. Science / Physics   

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Opamp- review
It is a very good book that gives detailed explainations for designing an opamp.

Need improvement.
This is a good book to have if you are an opamp designer. What a wonderful book on operational amplifiers!
Dr. Johan H. Huijsing is the most famous expert on operational amplifiers. I had been waiting for quite long time since I knew he was going to publish this great book on OPAM last year.Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Bks - General Information    2. Computer Engineering    3. Computers - General Information    4. Electronic Apparatus And Devices    5. Electronics - General    6. General    7. Logic Design    8. Operational amplifiers    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Technology    11. Circuits & components    12. Computers / Computer Engineering    13. Computers-Logic Design    14. Medical-General    15. Technology / Electronics / Circuits / General   

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adequate despite authors' fantastic claims
The authors can't stop joking and blowing their own horns about how wonderfully entertaining circuit analysis is, made all the more so by their brilliant take thereupon. The fact of the matter is that the text is laborious, representing the poor man's path through the material, so to speak. When I studied circuit analysis, we had scarcely finished loop and nodal analysis before plunging headfirst into Laplace transforms. Simply put, Laplace transforms are the way, the truth, and the life. They lay open the entire dissected form at one's feet. Why waste time with mounds of insoluble integro-differential equations? Why spin wheels with pretty phasor diagrams that offer no headway toward closed-form solutions? The student will have to invest years upon years in linear systems analysis from the classical control system theoretic perspective, so why not start sooner rather than later? And why, oh why, do Hayt and Kemmerly burden us with terminologic tomfoolery, viz., what is the natural response versus the forced response versus the steady-state response versus the fiddle-de-diddle response? Just solve the bloody thing with Laplace transforms, and never mind the nitpickety distinctions! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Electronics - Circuits - General    2. Science/Mathematics    3. Technology    4. Technology & Industrial Arts    5. Circuits & components    6. Technology / Electronics / Circuits / General   

Subjects:  1. Electronic Engineering (Specific Aspects)    2. Electronics    3. Electronics - General    4. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    5. Engineering - General    6. Ferrites (Magnetic materials)    7. Magnetic Properties Of Materials    8. Magnetic materials    9. Materials    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Technology    12. Technology & Industrial Arts    13. Electricity, magnetism & electromagnetism    14. Technology / Electronics / Circuits / General   

Subjects:  1. Applied    2. Computer Science    3. Design and construction    4. Electric filters    5. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    6. MATLAB    7. Mathematica (Computer file)    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Signal Processing (Communication Engineering)    10. Signal processing    11. Technology    12. Technology & Industrial Arts    13. Telecommunications    14. Technology / Telecommunications   

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Useful yet buggy...
Fairly useful program for building logic circuits and getting a visual of timing aspects, but program seems too buggy to totally recommend.I only bought it because it was required for a class.

Excellent digital simulation software for Windows
If you have access to a Windows machine (Windows 2000/XP/NT 4.0) this is excellent software to learn digital concepts and simulate digital circuits.It's also a pretty decent schematic editor for simple circuits although I'd recommend DesignWorks Lite/Pro from Capilano Computing (capilano.com) as a better editor. LogicWorks software was originally developed on and for the Macintosh OS but version 5.0 doesn't support the Macintosh.For that there is LogicWorks 4.5 available directly from Capilano Computing ([...]) which supports MacOS 9 and X but doesn't include VHDL support.

A significant improvement in a good system - - -
I have used LogicWorks4 in a computer design class with fair results - (very good for small jobs - starts to get shaky with a thousand gates or so).
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Subjects:  1. Chdl (Computer Hardware Descriptive Language)    2. Computer Engineering    3. Computer Simulation    4. Digital Integrated Circuit Design    5. Drafting & Mechanical Drawing    6. Electronics - Digital    7. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    8. Programming Languages - General    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Technology    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Computers / Computer Engineering    13. General Theory of Computing   

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NOT! DIFFICULT TO READ, A GREAT BOOK!
I DO NOT AGREE that Dr. Leuder's book is "difficult to read. Style and composition are poor."The reviewer does not consider that English is a second language for Dr. Leuder.
Technology Fundamentals
This work is a major summary of complex technology which is readily understood by way of diagrams and references to meaningful applications.It includes the mathematical support needed for the expert and yet brings the newcomer a breadth and depth which is outstanding.These comments from a physicist working in the field who yet develops practical products. difficult to read
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Subjects:  1. Electric properties    2. Electronics - Circuits - General    3. Electronics - Optoelectronics    4. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    5. Liquid crystal displays    6. Liquid crystals    7. Optical properties    8. Optoelectronic Devices    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Technology    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Applied optics    13. Circuits & components    14. Technology / Electronics / General   

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Complete, careful, well written.
After having used a half dozen books on the topic of synthetic aperture radar signal processing, this is the best. The authors are very careful with their explanations and derivations, and keep their discussions within the subject context. Other books don't do this, and the details of SAR processing can become confusing to the novice. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in SAR, despite the very high price tag.

Marcus Monteiro
This book is for people with some knowledge on SAR who likes to know mathematical theory behind SAR processing. The authors focused their attention on satellite boarded radars, leaving in second plan problems faced on aircraft boarded SAR systems. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Radar    2. Radar Technology    3. Remote Sensing    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Signal processing    6. Synthetic aperture radar    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Image processing    10. Technology / Remote Sensing   

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exellent and practical book
The book contents are very relevant, and the explanation is clear. To get the most out of this book, you may need to know concepts like laplace tranform, transfer function, Krylov vectors etc.

Best of breed
This book would make a good classroom textbook. It is perfect for anyone getting started in this field.

Great book
Great book. Looks like intended for newcomers to the field, but experienced users can use it as a reference. Requires some mathematical background though. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. CAD-CAM - General    2. Computer Simulation    3. Electronics - Circuits - Integrated    4. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    5. Integrated Circuits    6. Interconnets (Integrated circu    7. Interconnets (Integrated circuit technology)    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11. Ultra-large scale integration    12. Circuits & components    13. Computers-CAD-CAM - General    14. Systems analysis & design    15. Technology / Electronics / Circuits / General    16. Technology / Engineering / Electrical    17. Technology-Electronics - Circuits - Integrated   

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Full of good ideas and insights that are well presented.
I bought my copy over 20 years ago and it remains my favorite
Electrical Engineers, This is what You are looking for
I used this book in Graduate course. I found it very useful. It covers most of the theoritical and graph techniques for circuits and network analysis. All the methods are discribed in a clear way along with examplesand problems. This is good for upper level undergraduate courses and a"must" for graduate students. This is the Text you are lookingfor, to use for your courses and for Ph.D. comprehensive exams. I'll keepit with me until I retire... ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Data processing    2. Electronic Circuit Design    3. Electronic circuits    4. Electronics - Circuits - General    5. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Applications of Computing    10. Circuits & components    11. Technology / Electronics / Circuits / General    12. Technology / Engineering / Electrical    13. Technology-Engineering - Electrical & Electronic   

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"MORE Gadgets" better than first book
The first Electronic Gadgets for the Evil Genius book had devices that were a bit more sci-fi and cool, but although the information was interesting, not many are going to actually be able to build any of them, as parts will be expensive and hard to find.This second GADGETS book actually has a few circuits that you could actually build with parts that are more available.
Interesting projects - but not for the unsupervised teen
Mr. Iannini continues the tradition he began in his first "Electronic Gadgets" book by offering up more than a fair share of laser devices. For this reason alone I don't think it is a good idea for your high schooler to play around with building the devices in this book unsupervised. Then there are the devices such as the "Marx Generator", which is a clever way of charging a number of capacitors in parallel, then discharging them in series. Originally described by E. Marx in 1924, Marx generators are probably the most common way of generating high voltage impulses for testing when the voltage level required is higher than available charging supply voltages. Again, this is another high voltage device which along with the Tesla coil and 400K volt DC generator can be potentially dangerous. The third category of projects that require adult supervision are those that invade the personal space/privacy of others - i.e. adults should always be on hand to explain why it is not OK to nauseate, confuse, and snoop on others for the purpose of learning electronics. The projects are interesting, but the reader/hobbyist should be an adult who is already knowledgeable of electronics and electronic construction techniques. The instructions in this book are not detailed enough for the novice. Also, the price tag on most of the devices is greater than $100, so they are not cheap either. Finally, and most importantly, the reader should have a penchant for safety. Thus if you want to get your teenager interested in electronics via interesting "cool" projects, and you are already knowledgeable yourself and willing to do full-time supervision of the construction, this is probably a good book over whichthe two of you can both learn and bond. Amazon does not show the table of contents, so I do that here:
as expected
Another hit from Bob, put together in the format that is familure to his readders. Very informative. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Electronics - Circuits - General    2. Electronics - General    3. Science/Mathematics    4. Technology    5. Technology & Industrial Arts    6. Circuits & components    7. Electronics engineering    8. Technology / Electronics / Circuits / General   

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An excellent resource for Neophyte Experts like me
Houdini is vast, but easily knowable.I know a chunk of Houdini's capacity, having used it and its predecessor, PRISMS professionally for fifteen years or so.The richness of Houdini always allows for one's eyes to be freshly opened to its potential, however.(Jebus, I *wish* my dog would stop farting! - Man, that's foul!)Sorry...What was I saying?Oh yeah...I left my copy of the book at work, and now I'm trying to find some of its content here at Amazon, so I thought I'd take a moment to say that *this* old FX god finds Will Cunningham's book, "The Magic of Houdini" to be accessibly written, chock full of useful stuff, and right now, inconveniently indespensible. [UPDATE]I went to work just to get the book, and it told me what I needed to know, and now I can model that metacarpal like nobody's business!Yay Will!

Best book on Houdini ever
Well, the only book on Houdini, but coincidently, this book is an excellent resource for all levels interested in Houdini. Information is clear and the examples are well constructed and useful. It does really scratch the surface of the program, but Houdini would be impossible to teach in one volume.
Houdini: By A Pro, for Pro's
Will Cunninghams book is not only a great introduction
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Subjects:  1. Computer Animation    2. Computer Books: General    3. Computers    4. Computers - Languages / Programming    5. Programming - General    6. Computer graphics software    7. Computers / Programming / General    8. Image processing   

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definitely worth the money
this is one of the few books that offers practical advice on finding a job in the cg industry. besides the standard topics like putting together a resume and interviewing tips, it tells you what skills you need to build in order to be successful at different career paths (modeler vs rigger vs compositor, etc.) i also found the interviews with various people who already work in the industry very informative. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Career Planning (General)    3. Careers - General    4. Careers - Science & Technology    5. Computer Animation    6. Computer Books: Desktop Publish    7. Computer Books: General    8. Computers    9. Desktop Publishing - General    10. Microcomputer Graphics    11. Advice on careers & achieving success    12. Animation    13. Computer graphics software    14. Computers / Computer Graphics / Design    15. Image processing    16. Image processing: computer animation    17. Media, information & communication industries   

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Designing Web Graphics, 4th Edition
This is a good reference book for Web Designers.It covers the basic concepts of color usage on the Web.It also gives many hints and examples of good Web design.

Complete Reference
Group 1.
An excellent book for the new web designer

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Subjects:  1. Computer - Internet    2. Computer Books: General    3. Computer Graphics    4. Computer Graphics - General    5. Computer Networks    6. Computers    7. Design    8. Desktop Publishing - General    9. Digital techniques    10. Image processing    11. Internet - Web Site Design    12. Web sites    13. Computer graphics software    14. Computers / Internet / Web Site Design    15. Publishing on the Internet   

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Disappointing
This book proved to be a great disappointment. I am reasonably knowledgeable about sensors and tracking, but I needed to "take my game to the next level" for some work I was doing. I thought this book might be the vehicle to help me. It wasn't. It is at once overwhelming and underwhelming. It is basically a massive literature survey. Granted, that can be of value -- indeed, merely assembling such a massive tome is a truly prodigious feat. Still,it totally missed the mark as far as I am concerned. What I needed was an in-depth treatment of the fundamentals of multiple target tracking that would provide me with sufficient basic understanding to allow me to solve some difficult, but straightforward generic tracking problems.This book isn't it. Instead, the book was more like a huge cookbook that contained many recipes, but didn't help me learn to cook. The Table of Contents was actually a dead giveaway. It is 18 pages long, and many individual sections covering very complex topics are remarkably short -- 1-2 pages. That should have warned me that I wasn't going to find what I was looking for here. The book is also hard to read. Because it covers such a potpourri of topics, the notation is inconsistent, the acronyms are even more annoying than usual, and equations are plucked out of the references without sufficient context to make them "user friendly." As a result, using the book is exceptionally frustrating, and its sheer size makes the effort daunting. This is the probably the longest and certainly the most expensive technical book I have ever purchased. It wasn't worth it to me, and I would urge others to think twice.

The Complete Book of Tracking
A complete survey of modern tracking methods. Basic tracking fundamentals as well as advanced tracking concepts are explained with simple examples that are easy to follow and understand.In many instances I have gone to this book to understand things that were incomprehensible in journal articles. The book covers the basics of sensors, target dynamics, Kalman filtering, multiple hypothesis tracking, data fusion, reasoning schemes, sensor resource management, and more.My favorite chapter is the last:Detection and Tracking of Dim Targets in Clutter. If you are involved with tracking this book will be a valuable companion.

Comprehensive tracking reference
This book covers all the basic methods in tracking and data association as traditionally used in applications such as radar, robotics, image processing, signal analysis, ... The book provides a very solid introduction to the different topics of sensor analysis, characterisation of uncertainty, methods for single and multi target tracking, etc. The topic of sensory fusion is also well covered in terms of different approaches to integration (MAP; Evidential Reasoning, Bayes,...). Read more

Subjects:  1. Electronics - General    2. Engineering - General    3. Radar    4. Radar Technology    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Tracking radar    9. Signal processing   

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Erudite and encyclopedic but extremely expensive
I've used Palik & Ghosh as an occasional reference work for years, because it's very good, and has chapters on most of the materials I've needed to work with--metals, silicon, and oxide dielectrics of one sort or another. Obviously a lot of work went into it, and it's a pretty specialized business, measuring and tabulating optical properties.I'd give it 5 stars for content, no doubt about it--an orchid for the editors: for their part of the deal they deserve our praise and thanks.Read more

Subjects:  1. Electronics - Optoelectronics    2. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    3. Optics    4. Science    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Electrical engineering    7. Optics (light)    8. Technology / Electronics / Optoelectronics   

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Much Needed Book
Digital photographers don't pay enough attention to color management. This book is exactly what is needed to remedy that lack.You'll find all the basics here, and enough in-depth information to start you on the road to calibrating and fine-tuning your digital equipment to accurately reproduce the colors you see.

Just What You need
This is exactly what I was looking for; it gives a quick in-and-out overview of colour management, with detailed information about calibration and profiles. Other books on this topic are twice the size, which I don't think is necessary for most people.
Colour your world.
I have borrowed this book from my local library on several occasions and found the book invaluable so I decided it was time to have my own copy. An excellent book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Color photography    2. Computer Books: Desktop Publish    3. Computer Graphics - Image Processing    4. Computers    5. Digital techniques    6. General    7. Photography    8. Techniques - Color    9. Techniques - Digital    10. Computers / Computer Graphics / Design    11. Image processing    12. Photographic equipment & techniques   

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READ IT BEFORE REVIEWING PLEASE
my five stars are just to counteract the single star from the idiotic reviewer who gave the book one star w/o even bothering to read it. i haven't read this volume yet either, but i just ordered it and it's on its way; i'm certain i won't be disapointed. i'm a programmer and an artist and i use GP effectively to evolve forms both sonic and visual. just because you know your field(s) doesn't mean you can't benefit from a knowledge of evolutionary algorithms, quite the contrary. we have koza and friends to thank for a lot of inspirational work. i for one enjoy the interaction that i have with my algorithms, and since i'm the fitness function, forms crop up which never would have if either i or the machine were working alone. apologies for being guilty of the same crime as said reviewer but i feel in this case it's justified.

And the future is...
Genetic programming is like a new Big Bang in computer universe. Why Should You Buy This Book???
Why this book, when there are several shorter books on GP, and its principle author, John Koza, has written two other, more general and equally voluminous books on GP? This book addresses how to evolve program architecture, that's why! Living organisms didn't grow arms and eyes through simple mutation. It required more subtle genetic operators. Traditional genetic operators (as used in genetic algorithms) may be sufficient for evolving solutions to optimization problems where the structure if not the specifics of each solution is pretty much the same. But to effectively evolve program structures, you need architecture altering genetic operators. This book provides motivations in computer science, foundations in biology, and explanations in English. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Artificial Intelligence - General    2. Computer Books: General    3. Computers    4. Computers - Languages / Programming    5. Genetic Algorithms    6. Genetic programming (Computer    7. Genetic programming (Computer science)    8. Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics    9. Circuits & components    10. Computers / Artificial Intelligence    11. Machine learning   

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good book for educational use
This might be a good book for teachers looking for material in their classes gamedesign or gamedevelopment. It may also be a good book for selfstudy, if you have the discipline to do the exercises. You need to have played a lot of the classic videogames though, otherwise you might not be able to do the exercises, which are mostly about thinking about gamedesigns and making little designs or design alterations on existing games.

Not programming, Not Graphics, Overall Game Design
Few people realize just how big a business digital gaming has become. Think of it this way: It's bigger than the domestic box office of the film industry. The amount of time spent playing games by young people now exceeds everything but television in time spent on entertainment. The main factor driving the development of the new extremely powerful computers is gaming, slower machines are capable of handling almost all office tasks.
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Subjects:  1. Computer Bks - Games    2. Computer Books: Desktop Publish    3. Computer Games    4. Computer Graphics - Game Programming    5. Computer Graphics - General    6. Computer software    7. Computers    8. Computers - Games    9. Design    10. Programming    11. Programming - Software Development    12. Video & Electronic - General    13. Image processing   

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Extremely practical and useful
I bought first edition of this book 7 years ago and have used it A LOT. I just bought the 2005 edition. I am interested in the nanometer CMOS design techniques and "indirect compensation" (how they are getting the ns settling times for the op-amps).
below expectation

Book's Problem Solutions and Figures
The solutions to the end-of-chapter problems and the figures seen in "CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation," are found at the book's website. They are in pdf format and can be downloaded (for free) by anyone. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Electronics - Microelectronics    2. Electronics - Circuits - General    3. Electronics - Circuits - Integrated    4. Engineering - Electrical & Electronic    5. Integrated Circuits    6. Metal oxide semiconductor fiel    7. Metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors    8. Metal oxide semiconductors, Co    9. Metal oxide semiconductors, Complementary    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Technology    12. Technology & Industrial Arts    13. Circuits & components    14. Technology / Electronics / Circuits / General