(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best electrical & electronics books
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21. Modern Control Engineering (5th Edition)
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Of course! There are a lot of okay entry-level control theory books, but the really good books are a bit more advanced. The /r/controltheory wiki here has some good book suggestions (in particular the WikiBooks book on control theory), but I'd really recommend watching Steve Brunton's Control Theory Bootcamp on youtube to get a good overview of intro grad level control. Brian Douglass (also on youtube) has also a bunch of great videos on control theory, if you are interested in diving deeper into specific topics.
I used Chen's "Linear Systems: Theory and Design" as my intro book, but it's not exactly the most riveting. My favourite book now is Ian Postlethwaite and Sigurd Skogestad's "Multivariable Feedback Control: Analysis and Design" (apparently control theorists really like colons in their titles).
Now none of these books will use anything beyond advanced linear algebra and functional analysis, so for the nonlinear control that uses the fancier differential geometry, I'd recommend Bullo and Lewis and "Nonlinear Systems" by Khalil. Note that Khalil has another book called "Nonlinear Control", which is just Nonlinear Systems but cut in half. Don't get that one.
Control theory also intersects with optimization (they share the same arXiv classification), so for optimization I'd recommend Convex Optimization by Boyd and Vanderberghe. It's really a fantastic book. Calculus of variations is also essential for studying optimal control.
For your second question, I guess it depends if you want academic or industry positions. I can happily say that right now the job market for control theory is super hot in both. Aerospace and car companies are hiring controls people to do autonomous car stuff and spacecraft GNC (think the spaceX rocket landing), and a few of the car companies even opened up industrial labs where academics can do research and publish papers. It's pretty good. I'm graduating this year, and I managed to line up a few tenure track job interviews. I think like 40 R1-level places were hiring controls people, mostly for autonomous systems work.
That being said, you should definitely study something you are interested in. I have the fortunate problem of being interested in literally everything, so I kind of picked research topics that were hot for academic jobs. I wouldn't focus so much on choosing between "pure" and "applied", because the line is very blurred sometimes, and I think control theory definitely fills a large span of what people consider "pure" and "applied". So I think you are right in that you can study some very pure math topics, and then use those to do controls work. For example, my mathematical interest from undergrad was graph theory, and now all my controls papers that I write are using neat things like spectral and algebraic graph theory. Other things like spacecraft controls uses stuff like Clifford algebras to do the quaternion computations rigorously.
One control-theory-esque thing that is very hot in math departments right now is optimal mass transport. The math department at my university interviewed two faculty candidates doing OMT work. If you are interested, I'd recommend the books by Cedric Villani. The connection to control theory was done by Brenier and Benamou.
When you learn about your graduate admissions, if you want I can take a look at the faculty and see who does more theoretical control theory stuff and make recommendations. Its completely normal to be indecisive, especially if you are an undergrad about to start grad school. Definitely explore a bit, both on the math and the controls side, and feel free to message me if you have more questions. Good luck!
>So, I prefer perhaps a longer definition like "plant growth from light."
No, this is photosynthesis. Photomorphogenesis (photo morpho genesis) is how plants react and develop to light. Photosynthesis only has about 60 metabolic steps and I consider it easy to understand compared to photomorphogenesis. There is some interesting quantum mechanics involved with photosynthesis. FRET measurements are vital to my research in determining photosynthesis efficacy by spectra for different leaves. This is a good book to read if you go to that level.
>there is a lot unknown about this
Much, much more than you realize. A plant may have over 1000 light sensitive interacting proteins. There are at least 5 different phytochrome proteins. PHY-E works differently than the other 4. Arabidopsis thaliana, a model plant and "lab rat", has about 1400 light sensitive proteins. The function of the vast majority is still unknown.
>ratio of red to far-red goes into determining a plant's stockiness versus tall/thinness
Blue plays a bigger role through the phototropin proteins in every plant I've worked with.
>more blue light = more leaf expansion
Depends on the plant. You often end up with crinkled leaves since the leaf vein cells may not expand as much as other leaf cells. I got basil leaves to grow 4 times larger than normal using a minus blue light source (warm white 24 watt LED with a filter). I have generally found the opposite to be true- blue creates smaller leaves.
http://imgur.com/HzXKreR
Normally, sweet basil will not grow without some blue light. In this case I used blue light only on the stems. This is known as Selective Light Training.
In photomorphogenesis there's what's known as the "blue wall" and the "3 finger action response" (google them). 470nm greatly affects most blue sensitive proteins. 490nm does not- at least the phototropin proteins.
You're overlooking green/yellow/orange. Look at the front page of the lighting guide. This spectra also boosts auxin levels and important in the biosynthesis of ethylene, another plant hormone. There's a good reason that the spectra of HPS does so well in flowering.
>what is the "best" ratio of red | far-red | blue lighting? How are the different per plant type?
Hate to say this but it depends on the individual strain. Purple basil can react differently than lettuce leaf basil or sweet basil. Short answer- I don't know, there's hundreds of thousands of different strains of plants. I've seen testing at the local research university plant growth lab where white light beat color LEDs with sweet basil.
100 watt per square foot for CFLs for flowering. I always encourage people to use a light meter. I never give watts per plant, only watts per square foot. Veging takes about half the light as flowering.
>How much should the light be dispersed? Is there a chart or something that gives more detail on the amount of lighting and lighting dispersion?
Use your light meter. The reflector/lens/etc makes a big difference. In the lighting guide I talk about reflectors for CFLs.
>Are these good questions?
Quite good.
> What other questions should I ask with the goal of better understanding a practical grow light setup to optimize photomorphogenesis?
Try different combos of wavelengths.
>Do you have any recommendations for the setup of these experiments?
Stick with small plants and use 7 for the experiment and 7 for the control.
Micro Tom tomato
Lettuce including dwarf lettuce
Dwarf sugar peas
Keep in mind that a lux sensor/meter works great with white LEDs, would not trust them with color LEDs. The cheapest meter that can come somewhat close for good measurements with color LEDs is this $200 quantum light meter. It will not reliably work with 660nm LEDs. For that you need a $800 Licor meter. This Licor meter will not work with far red LEDs. For that you need a spectrometer. Mine cost about $2700 including fiber optic cable, two sensor heads and NIST traceable calibration.
You can always use any light sensor for relative measurements as long as the light source is the same. But keep in mind that with a true lux sensor, 620nm will give 3 times higher readings than 660nm although the radiant flux may be the same. Never get luminous and radiant flux confused.
You can also buy quantum light sensors in the $150 range. These "low" cost sensors will also not reliably read 660nm and far red LEDs. Multiple places sell them.
http://solarlight.com/product/par-quantum-light-sensor-pma-1132/
I have well over a hundred research papers/pdf files on plant lighting. I'm going to try to dig up a particularly good one. Forgot the name.
Good book:
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Radiometry-Photometry-Optoelectronics-library/dp/0890066787
Do you by chance have an Andriod smart phone or tablet? There's a lot of good apps that would be of use to you.
edit- a little bit here and there
That paper I wanted you to read- google "The Guiding Force of Photons"
Let's start with the basics. When you first start working with op-amps, they give you a couple of golden rules: 1.) Gain-bandwidth product is infinite, and 2.) when there's a feedback loop, the voltage at the inverting and non-inverting terminal are equal. What they don't often tell you is that there is no such thing in real life.
Non-ideal traits for an op-amp include things like offset voltage, bias current, offset temperature drift, and limited gain-bandwidth product. You can think of offset voltage as an extra little DC voltage source sitting on the non-inverting input, and bias current as a little current source sitting between the two input terminals. Maybe these are the non-idealities you had in mind. These shouldn't throw you off too badly, though -- if you can solve an op-amp circuit normally, the easiest thing to do is use superposition to solve for each input separately, then combine them to get the response for the whole thing. I'm sure you can google for how to do this.
Nearly all op-amps are designed to have a huge open-loop gain over a small frequency band, but they are way unstable and hardly usable as such. That's why we use feedback loops. What a feedback loop essentially does is sacrifice the high open-loop gain for a lower, more stable closed-loop gain over a larger frequency band. That's where the gain-bandwidth product comes into play -- if you have an op-amp with 80 dB of open-loop gain over 100 kHz and a cutoff slope of -20 dB/decade, you can sacrifice 40 dB of gain and use it to amplify signals over 10 MHz instead.
My best advice is to ditch the book and use google to your advantage. I found this note that will probably help you with what you're trying to do.
Also, try searching for app notes on op-amps on semiconductor manufacturers' websites. National Semiconductor, TI, Linear Technology (and yes, even Analog Devices), have tons of app notes that can explain nonlinearities. Another good resource is this book.
Enjoy.
There are a lot of good suggestions in here, but I'm wondering if any of them are really applicable to what you want to do. An electrodynamics book like Griffiths will come at magnetism from the perspective of field and/or tensor mathematics. A solid state book like Kittel or Ashcroft and Mermin would come at it starting from a phenomenological perspective and moving into things like local moments and band structure. I'm guessing here, but it seems like what you want is more of an idea of the interaction of magnetism and materials or observable phenomena. Either of those approaches would get you there, but it wouldn't be the most direct approach and it would be a lot more work than you need to put in if that's all you want. They would also both require a lot more math than it seems like you're really comfortable with, and both topics are complex enough that physics/chemistry/MSE students struggle with them without good instructors (and sometimes even with them).
Instead of starting with any of those, I'd suggest you look at some lower level, phenomenology and observation based works. Nicola Spaldin's Magnetic Materials: Fundamentals and Applications might be a good place to start. It's pretty low level: I think a motivated undergrad could deal with it after taking a year of freshman physics, but I think that's what you want, at least to start with. It gives a good overview of different kinds of magnetism and the different kinds of magnetic materials, as well as field generation and detection.
Incidentally, if you decide to be a masochist and go with a solid state book, I think Ashcroft & Mermin is a better text than Kittel. Kittel spent 50 years and eight editions trying to fit the new developments in the field into the book without making it significantly thicker, so Ashcroft has a narrower scope but covers what it does have in more depth. I find the writing style clearer and more accessible as well.
I was an international relations major and while I didn't pick up a double major in any language we were required to take at least two years of a language and study abroad. I did a year of Japanese, tested into second year Spanish and finished that up, and then studied abroad in Korea where I powered through a year's worth of Korean in one semester. I love learning languages. It's ridiculously fun and I'm just fascinated by them.
Funny enough, though, the language I most want to learn now is American Sign Language. I am hearing impaired. I have been since I was little but it's gotten worse as I've gotten older and now for some reason I have psychosomatic hearing loss in my one good ear so. That sucks. I've had to accept that I need more help since starting law school. I had note takers in some classes. I'm looking into self training a hearing dog for the home so I don't accidentally burn the house down or not hear someone breaking in when I'm living on my own. In coming to this whole acceptance I've realized I should probably learn ASL now while I still have like 65% hearing just in case the rest of it decides to go. I figured these flash cards would be useful in that endeavour. My university assigns them as required materials to their undergrad ASL classes.
I also added this Spanish for legal professionals book because I'm taking the Texas bar exam at the end of the month and I intend to be a prosecutor in the future. I know some Spanish and with some studying I can probably get pretty good at it again. But I know absolutely zero legal terms in Spanish. So this book would be hella useful in my professional life.
So I leave it to you to decide which to gift if you pick me. I like surprises. :D
A Great book to get started:
http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-Electricity-Electronics-5th/dp/0071741356/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377040953&sr=1-1
Great Forum:
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Great company for kits(although I usually just order my parts myself these days, but for getting started...)
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Bunch of cool projects and neat parts here:
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You can learn a lot by building, lets say, and 1176 or something, but I'd recommend starting out with smaller things. When i started fabing my own stuff, I did mostly fairly simple guitar effects, 9v circuts and such. Also, I've learned to simpilify many of my controls and such using an Arduino, which is a cool little cheap gadget. My other piece of advise is this: you might WANT to jump in and start the audio stuff right away, but learn the fundmentals first. Good Luck!
Yeah, the laws explicitly allow transmission outside of your licensed limits for the preservation of life and property. The test is super easy. You should read the book it's based on at least once to get a broad understanding, and then download a free app that gives you all the test questions. Just go through the questions until you've memorized enough to Ace the test.
Testing costs around $15. I'd strongly recommend taking all the tests through amateur extra to get access to all amateur bands. If it takes you an extra couple months to memorize all the questions, that's totally fine (unless you're in a hurry to transmit, then just study more!).
In short, you'll need $20 for a Kindle version of the arrl manual (you can skip it and read free or lower cost manuals if money is super tight, but this is the official guide that you can come back to).
https://www.amazon.com/ARRL-Ham-Radio-License-Manual-ebook/dp/B07DFSW94G
Then you'll study with a free app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iversoft.ham.test.prep
You can just Ace the tests from the app by memorizing all the questions, but there's HUGE value to actually understanding the content in the study guide that you won't get from memorizing a couple hundred question answers.
Then, take a test for a variable cost -- mine was $15 (and that covers all three tests if you take them all, it's just a fee to help pay for the site and materials).
Finally, or maybe first, get yourself a cheap ham radio like the baofang UV-5R. It's only about $20, so I'd just get it and start playing with the relatively complicated controls (plenty of guides on the internet) and worry about any upgrades long into the future when you have money and you're sure you're interested.
Hi, I'm very pleased to hear that you are interested in lens design and optics. Although I think I'd be able to help you out more if I knew your motivation and end goals, here are a few suggestions:
For books, I recommend two. First, Field Guide to Lens Design by Bently/Olson if you're just starting out, it is not math heavy and cheaper than most textbooks.
https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Design-Press-Guides/dp/0819491640/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487712393&sr=8-1&keywords=field+guide+to+lens+design
Another book, Field Guide to Geometrical Optics by Greivenkamp if you're willing to put in the math and learn the theory. It's still a simple book though, I'm a lens designer and I use the book regularly because it is a great reference.
https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Geometrical-Optics-SPIE/dp/0819452947/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487712411&sr=8-1&keywords=field+guide+to+geometrical+optics
If you want Videos, the Youtube channel Optics Realm are thorough. Skip the Zemax tutorial and go to the Optics tutorials.
https://www.youtube.com/user/opticsrealm
And finally, there is a great set of slides at slideshare. However, some things may be lost if you don't have Dave speaking to you.
http://www.slideshare.net/operacrazy/camera-lens-talk
Good luck learning, and don't hesitate to ask me for follow-up. Like I said at the beginning, I think I can help you out more if you can tell me: why did get interested in lens design? And what's your end goal after learning?
Thanks for verifying that for me, it's left me a little concerned about my mathematical skills. I can't seem to get it to adjust to the range I desire, it seems to range from 15-20 volts and I can't seem to get it any lower, even after replacing the zener reference with an actual 7805 regulator. I'd like to be able to change the voltage of this with a single pot, but as I said it's not doing the range I desire. Do you have a suggestion for any good schematics for op-amp or transistor based adjustable voltage regulator that you've enjoyed? I have a book which contains several chapters leading up to the construction of a dual adjustable supply, but I can't seem to find much direct information in the book regarding what the expected range would be, so i don't know if I should build it or not yet. I know I could always grab a couple lm317's to build a nice dual adjustable supply, but that really takes the fun and learning out of the whole project for me :P
Thanks!
The Feynman lectures are really good, and they will take you from basic physics to quantum mechanics.
Get yourself a good groundwork in physics before you worry about flashy things like relativity. The ability to spout out fancy words about fancy-sounding fields really means nothing if you don't actually understand what you are talking about.
Now, this said, once you are ready to dive into quantum mechanics, I'd personally recommend Griffiths.
As a chemical engineer specialized in electron microscopy, I am partial to solid-state physics and physics at the atomic scale, so if you are interested in such small things, I would recommend Callister as an introductory book (it is basically the bible of materials science, and is an excellent beginner book and reference) and Kasap as a very readable book on solid-state physics.
With any such books, unless you are using the book for a class and it is required that you have a particular version, don't worry about getting the newest edition. An older edition will generally save you a lot of money if you purchase a hard copy. That said, it is easy enough to find most of them digitally if you are so inclined.
Some people already answered this, but I wanted to add some info on magnets.
Magnets are pretty nifty, let me see if I can help out with some of this. The type of magnet you have on your refrigerator is a ferromagnet. Its polar opposite is nicely named an antiferromagnet. These materials can also take on different forms, if you heat up a ferromagnet higher than its curie temperature, it becomes paramagnetic. If you heat an antiferromagnet up past its neel (nay-el) temperature it becomes diamagnetic.
So what does this mean at an atomistic level?
Electrons have spins that can be polarized in different directions. When you get a group of electrons to all spin in the same direction they create a magnetic field. A magnetic material has a majority of its electrons spinning in the same direction.
With ferromagnets, you can align the electrons by subjecting it to a magnetic field. The electrons will start spinning the same way and form large domains aligned with the induced magnetic field. When you pull the material out of the field, the magnetic effect will persist, because changing spin means breaking a domain wall, which costs energy.
Paramagnets will align when in a magnetic field, but once you take it out they will go back to their chaotic spin states, a paramagnetic material has enough energy to not care about breaking domain walls.
Antiferromagnetic materials have a net magnetization of zero, so for every up spinning electron there's a down spinning electron.
Diamagnets are much like paramagnets, only they don't like magnetic fields entering them. (They have a negative magnetic susceptibility)
Then there are some others, like ferrimagnets, which have electrons spinning in opposing directions, however one of the directions is much more prominent, therefore they act like weak ferromagnets.
If you want a really good book on magnets, check out Nicola Spaldin's book. It's not too physics intensive.
I did want to correct a post someone made earlier though, magnetics are based off of the electronic structure, not the atomic one. You can have single crystal diamagnets, and you can have polycrystalline ferromagnets. The grain structure is not the main contributing factor to magnetism.
I've used Fundamentals of Microelectronics by Behzad Razavi and I thought it did a great job. I've also followed up with his book on analog CMOS IC design in more advanced courses. I unfortunately don't have any recommendations for comms textbooks.
As far as software goes, there are a few basics you should learn: matlab, a scripting language (python, perl, or tcl depending on where you go and what you do), and enough C programming to get by, or a lot of C programming if you go into embedded systems. You will also want to develop a familiarity with linux, especially when it comes to using ssh and a shell in general (shell scripting is a plus). People will argue left and right about matlab vs. numpy+scipy but realistically it's not hard to learn both, and as a student you likely have access to matlab through your school, so the cost is a non-issue. Matlab remains a de facto standard, and python is gaining popularity.
A lot of this stuff just sort of comes up incidentally in coursework, but I really think the linux fluency is something that is overlooked by many. Knowing how to use version control (learn git, everything else has feature parity or is simpler), knowing how to edit from a command line (it barely matters if it's vim, nano, or emacs, you just need to know how to open a file and make some changes without spending time trying to scp files around or googling how to use the editors, if you're in a hurry), and knowing how to perform basic tasks like renaming files or folders, which I've seen other grad students struggle with, are all pretty important. I've considered putting together some key points on this, along with software to understand how to use to improve your effectiveness, which I'd be willing to do up in the next week or so if there's interest.
I can totally relate to the desire of not wanting to deal with environmental sounds and wanting to communicate silently and naturally...with our bodies.
I just started learning ASL as well after one false start a few years back.
For starters if you're not attending a school or class, I would start with www.lifeprint.com Secondly, on advice from a friend who's an interpreter, I do things like finger spell street signs as I'm driving. These flash cards are also really great and come in a nice quality box with a key ring you can switch out cards from depending on what you're studying: https://www.amazon.com/Barrons-Flash-Cards-American-Language/dp/0764162225/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473871285&sr=8-1&keywords=asl+flash+cards
Lastly, video over internet is a great option, i.e. Skype. I regularly send video 'texts' to my friend through an app called Glide, especially for quick questions.
Where/how you figure this out?
By 1) getting into semiconductor processing and process design, 2) getting into device modeling, and 3) becoming an analog IC designer - and, of course, working in the semiconductor industry. In school you focus on upper division and graduate classes in these areas.
Generally you need all three to understand this area well. That's kind of how I fell into it. Leading edge analog design quickly becomes limited by the specifics of your simulation models and your specific process implementation. Usually parameters of process and device become factor in your analog circuit design and you may even adjust physical CAD layout to tweak them.
This is where SPICE models come in. Basically you keep getting new ones added to CAD systems over the last 40 years because of some corner that isn't well modeled. The simplest models (like MOS 1->3 and Gummel-Poon) worked OK for very large devices 40 years ago when SPICE was invented but process shrinks have created lots of nonidealities since (which is the nonideality? the device or the model? :-) ). Nature of the beast.
The simple fact however is that you can never get a device model to actually cover all corners of operation equally well. Such a model doesn't exist and probably never will.
Instead the reality is that you generally need fairly peaked experts extracting parameters and often even creating new models with the caveat that you always have to compromised on the model extraction accuracy to fit the particular application corner you are designing to.
So, for example, if are doing high power, you'll optimize one of the standard models for that corner and sacrifice low power accuracy or vice versa. If you are doing RF/uW devices, you make a different set of compromises than you would if you were doing digital or LF linear. In 40 years it's never become turn-key and automated - the degrees of freedom in the models generally don't properly match those of reality. Too many or too few cause problems with the extraction.
There are other areas related to SPICE model extraction that are very similar with just a small change of emphasis.
These include parametric process measurement which monitors each fabrication step using end-of-line analog testing of specialized test structures. This is more focused with manufacturing process control and device operational integrity "out the door". A side area to this is reliability testing - when with the devices fail in the field (and they will fail). Bread and butter to me. Been doing stuff in this general area for most of my career.
Some books on my shelf are the following (they are so common they are usually referred to by the author's name):
Physics of Semiconductor Devices (Sze)
MOS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Physics and Technology (Nicollian/Brews)
Semiconductor Device Modeling with Spice (Kielkowski)
SPICE: Practical Device Modeling (Antognetti)
Semiconductor Material and Device Characterization (Schroder)
Failure Mechanisms in Semiconductor Devices (Amerasekera/Najm)
Failure Modes And Mechanisms In Electronic Packages (Singh/Viswanadham)
You can also hang out at /r/chipdesign which is probably the closest subreddit to this area. I'm a moderator there.
You know the ray trace equations? here is a class website that covers raytracing by hand, you should look over the homework solutions. http://www.optics.arizona.edu/ot/opti502/
Im sure once you can do it by hand, you can easily write a program to do it. Ive done it in excel before when i was a lazy undergrad and i didnt want to do my homework.
This book is the most useful optics book ever written. It is short and sweet and covers the most important stuff in geometrical optics. It is really easy to understand and only costs $30.
http://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Geometrical-Optics-SPIE/dp/0819452947
Through the knowledge based in the books: Communication Systems - Carlson and Control Systems Engineering
... I have found that one can find within a specified accuracy and equivalent system. One method I know of is to expand the mathematical series into a form known as a Taylor series truncated to a polynomial to the order of your choosing, which yields sufficiently accurate approximation. The Laplace transform is applied to the Taylor polynomial. The Inverse Laplace transform is then applied to the transformed Taylor polynomial. This results in beautifully factored results; often useful for stability analysis such as the Rooth-horwitz or graphically plotting the Poles and Zeros.
If your math-foo is strong, perhaps the following link will better describe the process of sensitivity analysis after such transformations of been applied Christiansen
The power of this occurs because the final form after an inverse transform is repetitious, and referenced through a table one piece at a time; resulting in a visually appealing equivalent equation.
Sorry about the quality of the links, Its quite hard to find relevant internet available sources on topics which have pre-requisits of Matrix Algebra and Differential Equations. If these topics interest you, consider applying to a Engineering University, cause entire Junior/Senior level lesson plans are devoted to teaching how to take measurement data and converting them into a form of which we may analyze them. We prefer the factored form, for it has some of the easiest to compute analysis. Most of the links I provided already assume that one knows how to convert into the factored form, or more specifically forms which come out of the inverse Laplace transform.
That is a FANTASTIC reference book. Keep it forever because it will always be useful. IMHO, he doesn't even make an attempt to teach anything with that book, but it has earned a place on my bookshelf next to Paul, and Rhode&Schwartz's book on VNAs.
I'm loathed to recommend Balanis because I had so much trouble with that book, but it did cover waveguides reasonably well. Or at least, I think he covered waveguides better than he did boundary conditions and incident reflections.
In the end I wound up reading about 4 textbooks to get a good understanding during my first graduate EM course. I don't recall which they were anymore but I'm pretty sure all but Balanis were openly published and could be found again. I believe that I found one of the ones that I used under MIT's open courseware.
Ok, so if you really have to build your own motion/motor controller, here is how you could proceed (Disclaimer: I have never actually built a high power motor controller myself):
The first step is to select an appropriate motor. In your case, I think, you will end up having to use a brushless DC motor (also called EC motor, three-phase motor, ...). However, using a brushed DC motor would make your job a lot easier.
Maxon has some good resources to get the big picture of motor drivers. Note that you can't transfer everything 1:1 to larger motors (losses in the power electronics become more important (!)), but the basic principles are still the same. The document about BLDC motors is probably the most interesting one for you, especially starting from page 11.
/u/wolfcry0 summarized the things you need to know about your system pretty well :). If you want us to help you, you should also share them with us. Also consider if you require a speed controller (with feedback).
Once you know the basics, you should also look at some of the available motor controllers out there. I think there are four main sources for you:
You will also need to know, how to design and build your own PCB. Maybe there is a class for this at your university? I also suggest that you have someone to guide you through the design, who has experience with PCB design. Don't forget to allocate enough time for bug-fixing, software development and a second revision of your hardware....
Ahh, then perhaps try another book (or wikipedia, which tends to have good explanations). I can recommend:
Hu - Modern Semiconductor Devices for Integrated Circuits
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hu/Book-Chapters-and-Lecture-Slides-download.html
Sze - Physics of Semiconductor Devices
http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Semiconductor-Devices-Simon-Sze/dp/0471143235
Kasap - Principles of Electronic Materials and Devices
http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Electronic-Materials-Devices-Kasap/dp/0073104647/
Neamen - An Introduction to Semiconductor Devices
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Semiconductor-Devices-Donald-Neamen/dp/0072987561/
And for entertainment value, Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics:
http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm
If these aren't available in your library, you can find perfectly good older editions at abebooks.com for less than $20 with shipping.
The semiconductor will always be at equilibrium ( n*p = n_i) unless acted on by an external energy source, such as a bias voltage or light source. No external source = equilibrium.
I would recommend you stick to books for EEs, rather than physics (Griffiths and Jackson are physicists). Its all the same stuff obviously, but the focus, methods and notation is rather different (e.g e^jwt vs e^-jwt) and and that will be confusing when you are staring out. I would get the book assigned by your professor, and if you want to go more in depth, check out:
Balanis Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics
and
Harrington Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields
These books are classics and are oriented at a first year graduate student, but would be good references to augment your undergrad course material. They will go into a bit more detail and mathematical rigor, and if you're motivated and interested, I think they would be beneficial.
As you're an engineer, Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers might be of interest. It's written by a EE professor at Stanford.
A potentially nice optional feature of this is that Stanford offers a free online 9-week course based on this book with the author giving the online class. The latest offering of the course started Oct 4 and goes until Dec 16. If you're interested in that, I don't know if you could take it starting on your own now with access to the videos and course materials, or if you'd have to wait for the next offering. Here is a review by someone who took this course a couple years ago.
Disclaimer: I haven't read that book or taken this online class myself; it's just a potential idea that might be a fit or not
The book is pretty good for a highly theoretical treatment of the subject. I had S&S for two semesters and it went fine. However for the practical aspects of circuit design, you need something like Practical Electronics for Inventors.
Also, a pretty good book on microelectronics is Fundamentals of Microelectronics by Behzad Razavi
For the absolute basics I'm a big fan of Nathan Ida's "Engineering Electromagnetics". Lots of worked examples, clearly written, even has a multi-variable calculus review as the first chapter.
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https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Electromagnetics-Ida-Nathan/dp/8181282736/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1538005228&sr=8-2-fkmr0&keywords=nathan+idea+electromagnetics
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My university teaches from David Cheng's "Field and Wave Electromagnetics". I'm not a big fan of this, but it's what we use for our first course in EM.
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https://www.amazon.com/Field-Wave-Electromagnetics-David-Cheng/dp/0201128195/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538005311&sr=8-1&keywords=cheng+electromagnetics&dpID=51QAAAV1DVL&preST=_SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch
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When I took the same class a long time back, we used Inan and Inan's "Engineering Electromagnetics". I think it's a little better written than Cheng, but still not great.
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https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Electromagnetics-Umran-S-Inan/dp/0805344233/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538005413&sr=8-1&keywords=inan+electromagnetics&dpID=511yMwfuVSL&preST=_SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch
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If you want to get into more practical applications, there are a whole bunch of other books I'd recommend. There are also a couple "classic" physics type books on EM that we do use pretty regularly, but those are more at the graduate level.
Hey,
ECE212.
ECE241 - You learn C++ and OOP fundamentals in this course. We didn't have a textbook when I took it. Just online notes.
ECE241 - Stephen Brown is a prof at UofT and a great lecturer. I also still have this book if you are interested in buying from me!
ECE216 - Might still have this book if you're interested.
ECE221 - Professor Stickle probably will teach this course. Great lecturer but his tests/exams are notoriously hard.
ECE243 - Did not have a textbook when I took the course. Prof. Moshovos provided course notes online.
ECE297 - No textbook for this course. It's like a mini design project that lasts all semester where you have to build a concurrency based storage server in a team of 3. Picking a good team of programmers and technical writers is imperative.
Protip: Next time check TUSBE for textbook names and buying second-hand textbooks.
PS: Congrats on getting through 1st year, 2nd year will be tough.
> Natural gas and renewables are much cleaner than coal, but a lot of peoples' power is still coming from coal.
That's not how the grid works dude. Your post covers about 5% of the actual picture here. It's late, you'll have to read some books, I don't want to get into this now. But read these: (The Bin Wu one is fucking amazing, read it twice)
http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470593652.html
https://www.amazon.ca/Analysis-Electric-Machinery-Drive-Systems/dp/047114326X
This wouldn't hurt:
https://www.amazon.com/Power-System-Analysis-Design-Fifth/dp/1111425779/ref=pd_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=JWX7BQ73ZBNN7BCED44E (I have the 3rd edition, but the content is more or less the same)
Source: EE (CEAB)
EDIT: Oh! My point was...total shitpost on your end
For Non-Linear systems I love Khaleel. Though I dont remember if he has much on Sliding Mode.
I learned Kalman Filters from [Thrun] (http://www.amazon.com/Probabilistic-Robotics-Intelligent-Autonomous-Agents/dp/0262201623/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348256381&sr=1-1&keywords=probabilistic+robotics). Though he really approaches it from a software perspective and not necessarily controls (they are merging now!). He also has all different flavors of filters, which is awesome.
I reached out to a friend (who has the Amateur Extra license) for guidance and he recommended the canonical ARRL book (link). I've been reading that and it's been VERY helpful. It organizes all the questions by subject matter and teaches more holistically, while still letting you see the exact content in the exam.
If you put in the time and effort you can pick it up fairly well. If you really want to get into design and modding and stuff I'd say find a few fairly simple circuits and socket a bunch of the components so you can see how changing various parts impacts the sound. This is supposed to be an interesting book from Brian Wampler. Most of the negative reviews basically bash it for basically taking informations and schematics you can find online and putting them into a book, but the analysis and organization helps you work through some of this stuff. This is another good one too from Craig Anderton. The Anderton tube sound fuzz is the basis for one of my got to distortions.
There are 3. The 2 that are connected together are probably ground. So, tip to one, ring (middle connection) to the other, then sleeve (ground) to the 2 that are connected. Can't really be sure about left/right at this point. would require some experimentation.
Also, don't blow a pair of headphones! just go down to a radio shack and get an 1/8" connector. Then, find some cheap stereo wire. You need a wire with 2 conductors (as in, jacketed wires) and an outer shield. the outer shield is ground, and the two inner wires are the left and right sides. This completes the circut.
Oh, also, go to radio shack and by a good volt/ohm meter if you're interested in this stuff. It'll help you in the future detirmine things like which leads on this tape head are what. Also, read this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-Electricity-Electronics-Edition/dp/0071741356/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1371353158&sr=8-1&keywords=Stan+Gibilisco
Stan Gibilisco's Teach yourself electricity and electronics. Fantastic book. Huge, but take it in chunks. You'll understand how this works and many other things!
Thank you for putting in the time to look up these courses. If you don't mind, can you please tell me how taking this modern control sequence compares to just reading the textbook linked below? I am asking strictly in terms of content/knowledge to be gained (as being mentored is always preferable to reading the textbook alone).
https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Control-Engineering-Katsuhiko-Ogata/dp/0136156738
Background in you are curious:
I am preparing to take this course at Waterloo - http://compneuro.uwaterloo.ca/courses/syde-750/syde-556-course-outline.html - which mentions control theory in its description.
Well first you’ll probably want to get a license to use it. Assuming you’re in the US, I recommend this book to help you get started. It’s not very difficult to get the entry level license (Technician), but if by “long range” you mean global, you’ll need to upgrade to a license that permits use of those frequencies, which would be the next step up (General).
There’s a lot of possibilities with this question and I think you’ll probably get more help at r/amateurradio as r/radio is more for broadcast radio rather than two way communication.
This is one of my favourites, although it is more heavy on theory than it is on real-world applications. But if you can get through it, you will have a great understanding of how motors work. Covers DC and AC asynchronous/synchronous motors, servos, as well as stepper / reluctance motors, and a heavy discussion on VFD's, both in the V/Hz and PID modes.
A great book if you want to really understand, electromagnetically, what is going on "under the hood" with motors & VFDs. There is not a ton of chat about non-VFD control, but they do go over other starting methods. It's not super technical, but if you want that, you want Hughes, which covers some of this plus a million other things.
EDIT: Also covers some odd-ball stuff like cyclo-converters and such.
There's the Brian Wampler book that people always talk about in this sub, I don't know if it's exactly what you're looking for, but you should check it out anyway, it's a great source.
Yeah I recommend just researching more. I knew nothing last January and built a custom battery for my moped the past 2 months.
Check out this book. It has everything I used for it. Plus he has YouTube videos. He doesn’t pay me for this. I was just enthusiastic enough to learn.
DIY Lithium Batteries: How to Build Your Own Battery Packs https://www.amazon.com/dp/0989906701/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_uekvDbPFXV23H
I am not a business entrepreneur and don't want to be one. My business is the tech world; more specifically, electricity. This is the book I bought this week. It has absolutely zero personal experiences and gossip in it- just how I like it. I can see how liberals are into the Obamas though. They are good people who fight for the uneducated and the less fortunate. Makes sense. I imagine if the Obamas were still in office those Hondurans would be in our system by now- using my hard earned money for food and health care.
Yeah, I was going to joke that you make it infinitely long. Power/torque is proportional to L*D^2 so the longer you make it, the more you'll get out of it. Practically speaking, you don't want your length to be more than about 2-4X your rotor OD for manufacturability.
Here are two good books for learning about motor design, neither will really tell you how to actually select the geometry of the laminations or the winding configuration. Speed is a good piece of software for analyzing that. Maxwell is also good, but that is going to be out of the price range for individuals.
My school had a course that all EEs took that covered the basics like ideal transformers and induction motors. Then there were power specific courses that got into more detail with phasors, per unit, etc. This was the book a few of the power specific classes at my school used.
I have this book after being recommended it for a mechanical engineering degree:
http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Control-Engineering-Katsuhiko-Ogata/dp/0136156738/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382295868&sr=1-1&keywords=ogata
It has a section on frequency response and also shows how to solve things using matlab which is very useful too
Control Systems Engineering, 6th Ed, Nise
Modern Control Systems, 12th Ed, Dorf & Bishop
Automatic Control Systems, 9th Ed, Golnaraghi & Kuo
Control Systems Design: An Introduction To State-Space Methods
Control Handbook, 2nd Ed
Those are some that I have. The Nise book is excellent, the Dorf book is as well, it was my primary text for Controls I & II, supplemented by the Kuo book. The latter has more on digital controls. All of those three focus primarily on classical control theory and methods, but the Nise book goes into more depth on modern methods. I got the state-space methods book because it's more focused. The Control Handbook is a beastly collection, but it's very broad, hence not possessed of much depth. It's more of a reference than a text.
If you want to dive deeply into PID control, look no further than Akstrom and Hagglund's works on the subject, it doesn't get much better.
Source: I'm a degreed EE that specialized in control systems and a licensed control systems PE.
Shigley is good for machine design. As far as electronic controls and automation goes I'm not sure, but you would probably want to start out with some books on mechatronics and possibly mechanical control systems. Like this maybe.
I'd suggest going for a good Electromagnetics textbook. Balanis is pretty good. Looking at them as the radial form of sin and cos functions is what really made them make sense to me.
This is the first book I read on the subject! It starts with the water-flow analogy of electricity and identifying components, and goes up through analog and digital circuits with some great projects along the way. I built the analog power supply project inside the housing of an old radio and still use it at home.
Tab Electronics Guide to Understanding Electricity and Electronics
Fundamental of microelectronics
I'd recommend between this book and Sedra & Smith's book. But, Razavi's book might be easier to understand.
So, I think we are the only team doing this, but we are actually using battery caps instead of spot welding. They're from a company called Vruzend and work kind of like lego's. They owner of the company Micah Toll has written a book on battery pack building and has a very popular Youtube channel on battery pack building.
We haven't finished testing our caps and won't be able to fully vouch for them until after it has undergone the rigors of the ASC. But it did significantly reduce the time it took to make our pack. Instead of spot welding each battery multiple times, we fully assembled our back in just a few hours.
Like dtfgator said start looking through the [IEEE PES] (http://www.ieee-pes.org/) stuff. I am currently and undergrad doing some research in this, so I don't have much field experience. My experience so far has just been setting up simulations (some hypothetical and modeled our campus grid) in Power World and ATP. I'm sure there are many other programs that have advantages over these two but it's what I'm familiar with.
Knowledge of how to design and analyze a power system is an obvious necessity. I have not designed anything yet, but have learned fundamentals from this book which also has a lot of examples to use or set up in Power World. There are also a few courses on youtube somewhere.
Modern Control Engineering by K. Ogata is pretty much required reading for any aspiring controls engineer.
Source: my colleagues swear by him
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0136156738?pc_redir=1410585941&robot_redir=1
Tab Electronics Guide to Understanding Electricity and Electronics
This book seems to be the world's favorite intro book.
Here is a good book to get you started.
Tab Electronics Guide to Understanding Electricity and Electronics https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071360573/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_dY.ADb1263B4S
Another
Make: Electronics: Learning Through Discovery https://www.amazon.com/dp/1680450263/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_mZ.ADbV1KTHK3
The IC Op-Amp Cookbook by Walter Jung has hooked thousands of engineers and hobbyists. Strongly recommended.
I would recommend Nonlinear Systems by Khalil
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https://www.amazon.com/Nonlinear-Systems-3rd-Hassan-Khalil/dp/0130673897/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=hassan+khalil&qid=1550277980&s=books&sr=1-1
I think it is this book Splunlen is refering to: https://www.amazon.com/How-Modify-Guitar-Pedals-how/dp/1434801063
Please note that there seems to be a new version out soon.
During my Control Systems course we used Ogata's Modern Control System Engineering. It is very comprehensive.
For example this book is $207 https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Control-Engineering-Katsuhiko-Ogata/dp/0136156738
Exact same book in Pakistan is rs. 788 or USD $7.5 http://paramountbooks.com.pk/loginindex.asp?title=MODERN-CONTROL-ENGINEERING-5e%28pb%292010&isbn=9788120340107&opt=3&SubCat=04&Cat=04004
This was literally like the first book I found on that Pakistani website and googled it. I'm sure you can find most books for dirt cheap this way.
Cant compare to other books, but this is what we used for nonlinear.
https://www.amazon.com/Nonlinear-Systems-3rd-Hassan-Khalil/dp/0130673897
The majority is on nonlinear systems in general, but the last 2 chapters teach control techniques. (book is available online as pdf if you want to take a look at it first)
I leaned control theory from the Ogata textbook during university. The lectures were useless so that's really all I used to prepare for exams. Might be a good skimmable reference if you can find a PDF somewhere.
I suspect the control theory being referenced by model-based RL might be a bit more advanced than an entry level textbook though.
If everyone just got this book, their lives would be simple. Most of what you need to know to tune a PID is in here.
http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Control-Engineering-5th-Edition/dp/0136156738
Razavi -- Fundamentals of Microelectronics
http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Microelectronics-Behzad-Razavi/dp/1118156323
Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, 5th Edition by Stan Gibilisco
Solid State Electronic Devices by Streetman and Banerjee is everything you need to know semiconductor devices and the physics behind them.
Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics by Balanis covers E&M waves
https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Control-Engineering-Katsuhiko-Ogata/dp/0136156738
Double slit experiment for the most basic explanation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc
And then, just get this book. Everything that I learned from the internet informally was covered in chapter 1 of this book:
Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers:
Here is the book. He also runs a site - ebikeschool.com.
For electrodynamics, it has to be Cheng: Field and Wave Electromagnetics
Despite that these references are more for "industrial applications" though:
http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Motors-Drives-Fundamentals-Applications/dp/0080983324
http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Motor-Control-Stephen-Herman/dp/1435485750
http://www.amazon.com/Electrical-Machines-Drives-Systems-Edition/dp/0131776916
You may be able to find a preview on Google Books to confirm suitability for your application.
Are you looking for low-level info (ie how do motors and drives work) or higher level ( how do you take off the shelf units to combine them into a system)?
If the first, Electric Motors and Drives by Austin Hughes and Bill Drury. If the second, any drive manufacturer’s manuals should be more than sufficient.