Electricity is a strong topic for McGraw-Hill, as seen with our tremendous sales figures with the TAB list. The books sell well across nearly every channel, and are extremely well received internationally. "Electricity Demystified" is a self-teaching guide intended for anybody who wants to get familiar with the basic concepts of electricity, be it for a course, professional, or personal reasons. It is a pre-cursor to our much more in-depth title, "Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics", one of McGraw-Hill's most successful TAB titles, also by Stan Gibilisco.
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A superb primer on electricity, excellent for self-study,
This book is an excellent primer on the properties of electricity, the words used to describe it, how to work with it and compute the values of the descriptors. Using diagrams, formulas and worked examples, the reader is taken from the basics to the specifics of AC and DC electricity as well as the relationship between electricity and magnetism. A short set of questions is given at the end of each chapter and two major exams are included. Without question, this is the best beginning book on electricity that I have ever seen.
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|what I wanted . . . demistified,
I desperately wanted a book from which to learn enough DC electricity to work my way around the simple complexity of solar panels.
The book was what I needed and more.
Gibelesco took the mind of this beginner and ran it thru with the abc’s of DC. Even though I am 76, he made it easy to understand and memorize.
I have several of his other books, they are all written in the same straight foreward, shoot from the hip style.
Thank you so much for advertizing his material. I feel a loyalty to his work as I do to amazon books . . . enough to give you my credit card number
Thank you again
Dee Throckmorton.
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|okay, but has errors,
This book does a pretty good job of explaining the concepts, and has helpful quizzes included to let the reader make sure he/she understands before moving on (each chapter has example questions with answers provided, and a quiz with the answers in an appendix in the back of the book). BUT- not all of the answers to the example questions are correct. Granted, nobody’s perfect, but in a book such as this one there should be zero errors in the example questions. One instance is on p.62, where example problem 4-5 asks the reader to determine how much current a bank of batteries in parallel can provide. Even though only 1 page before the text had described how to determine this (“the sum of the branch currents”), the solution to the example problem adds up the voltages instead, and comes out with the wrong answer. There are a few other such cases in the book. If a reader does not have the background to be able to spot these errors, they’re likely to be confused and discouraged as they try to sort things out. If a reader does have sufficient background, they’re probably not going to be reading this book. I have to say the book suffers from lack of proper proofing prior to publication.
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