Electronic Principles (SIE) | 7th Edition

This book provides good content of Electronics for MSc (In Physics) from Indian Universities. Almost all the topics have been covered (however some topics like h parameters don't have sufficient discription so you will have to refer them from other sources, stability factor is also skipped). Also suits for competative examination like iit jam but so far, I don't know whether it will be sufficient for net, gate or other exams as well.One more important thing is that, this book demands patience and trust while reading, because some topics which are starting point for some other books take too long to be discussed.

Excellent book ! Good explanation ! Good basic !Worst delivery experience ,no bubble wrapping !!

Let me give you insight:1. All books are equally well written and logical....just make your mind that ”This is the only book (whichever book you choose) will give me all what I want.”2. This book builds awesome flow of logic and concepts which is required for knowing why so & so exists.3. Don’t be in hurry to just finish this book...take 2days minimum to read and read and assimilate what was told in initial few chapters. Then go to google and read more about it....it’s a slow process but once you build the foundation ...rest all will be smooth like anything.You will only flip pages and you will understand what it wants to say.I am telling you all this because I am reading this book after 11 years of my B.Tech and now I can appreciate what I missed during those days .Happy learning and All the Best

Good book for study

This is a very good primer on electronics if you want to learn basics of diodes and transistors and basic electronic circuits. The book is fairly easy to undertsand. The pre requisites for reading this book are basics of electric circuits theory (network analysis) and college level calculus and algebra and ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations although the book doesn't rely heavily on math. For those wanting less math in learning electronic circuits, this may be the book to buy.

This is a very good book for UG and PG (electronics)

This book is not enough for competitive exam like gate and ese. This book is good for clearing the basic concepts of electronics.

Way back in 1981 this was one of the first books on Electronics that I studied. Electronics has changed a lot in the past 38 years as has this book. The most outstanding quality of this book is that it starts with fundamentals. No prior knowledge of electronics is required to understand this book. The reader can enhance his understanding by reading the solved problems and then working on the unsolved problems at the end of each chapter. The only defect is that some equations are stated without giving the proofs. Most of the equations in electronics are easy to derive and their derivations could have been given easily without the use of much Mathematics and Physics.

The new editions water down the information like that famous scene from trading places....."Pork bellies which are used to make bacon - like in a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich..." the original Malvino is a great way to learn basic electronic circuits with solid state devices for students who have not taken calculus...for those who have taken calculus, there's always Hayt.....

The book was in great condition. Overall happy with the purchase! Thank you!

Had borrowed this book from a friend to read about electronics but found it so good that I bought my own version to add it to my own library.

Following the rave reviews, I picked up that book (6th Edition). Not that I am a beginner in electronics, but I wanted it as a beginners reference that would remind me of some of the basic concepts that I may have forgotten since my electronics course in college. The book definitely has many positives. It is well laid out, the graphs are beautiful. It is visually appealing. As for information it seems accessible in many places albeit sometimes oversimplified.The main issue is that the explanation isn't always clear and doesn't always drive the point home. I give you too examples. When talking about AC analysis of amplifiers, I wish the author had taken some time to explain the concept of superposition. Not that I didn't know it from Circuit theory. But the fact that it is at the heart of AC analysis, makes failing to mention it at the very beginning annoying. I remember that this was one of my biggest confusing parts about AC analysis. Why do we short circuit DC sources in AC and open caps in DC. He only mentions superposition in passing later, and definitely had this been my first book I would have been through a lot of confusion. He also kept on using the term "AC ground" without explanation. I can imagine a beginner would be very confused, thinking that this is a real ground. In reality, it just means constant voltage. He also never explains that the premise of this analysis and that the use of superposition is based on the assumption that the transistor is considered a linear device in this case even though it isn't but we try to approximate it that way. I remember back in my college days, I would try to always think of the transistor in terms of transistor curves and exponential equations. Had anyone explained to me that I shouldn't bother and just assume the transistor is linear, it could have saved me a lot of agony.You see my point? He says things, throws terms, but he doesn't always get to the heart of it, neither does he address all the things that were confusing me when I was starting to learn the subject. That's why I'm saying it's a good book, but it is overrated because a great book would have addressed these confusing matters.Another example is when I opened up the JFET chapter since I have good background on MOSFETs but didn't remember much of JFETs. He has some good explanation in the beginning but I really disliked his discussion on biasing. For example on page 432 he would say "Since VGS is a negative, the source voltage will be slightly larger than the gate voltage". Says who? why? no explanation. I don't think the second part of the sentence necessarily follow from the first part. Also equation 13-12 is not explained where it follows from. Well it's kind of late night and may be I am slow, but I just think it's not well explained.Aside from all that, you have full page examples that asks you to divide or multiply like it is an arithmetic problem. You have the equation, a few numbers, and all you mentally need to do is to substitute numbers in the equation. I do not really know what purpose that serves aside from making the book bigger, especially when the example comes right after the equation. No insight gained nothing, just plain substitution.Of course I can't pinpoint every single shortcoming that I saw for lack of time, space, and mainly because I haven't read the book cover to cover, just picking chapters that I feel I want to brush up on the material in them.So do you believe me when I say overrated?

This was for my son for his coursework and it is exactly what he needs for studying Electronics at Uni.