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Here is a book I recommend, starts from day 1 stuff, you can flip around where you need. There is free PDF online as well I think. Besides that, if you have the funds, I recommend asking your parents for an Arduino set and some come with project idea books and how to approach them. Other than that you can use codeacademy or other programming websites to teach you step by step.
Good luck!
Electrical Engineering 101: Everything You Should Have Learned in School...but Probably Didn't By Darren Ashby. Excellent resource to brush up and tune-up your skills
Electrical Engineering 101: Everything You Should Have Learned in School...but Probably Didn't https://www.amazon.com/dp/0123860016/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_GCB59X9T5V8QRHF03KS8
This is a decent book to get the ball rolling. Also, CU Boulder has an online MS-EE that you should look into. It’s performance based so there are no admissions.
I never went to school for electrical engineering but am a hardware technician by training. This book helped immensely. Best of luck.
Maybe something like this. In all seriousness though I would probably start with a speaker kit and just research what every component is along the way. There's only really three parts used in a crossover, they can just be used a few different ways.
I went back to school for engineering this year, I had to go through the first year calculus book because I took first-year calculus in 2002-2003. The Calculus I stuff I mostly remembered, it's the techniques, remembering the chain rule or integration by parts or trig identities and such, that you have to get refreshed on. But it does come back to you. I needed some for Physics and I'm taking Multivariable Calculus (Calc III in semester systems, Calc 4 in my quarter-based system) in January, so hopefully I get good enough at it over Winter break!
I took basically no science, apart from Geology as my required science elective (that was a fun class, I'm in Washington State and we did a field trip to Mt St. Helens), and AP Chemistry in high school (2001), so I remembered very little. Some of the terms in Chemistry I were familiar, like ionic and covalent bonds but mostly I remember how much of a pain it was to titrate things.
So I can't tell you much about refreshing on Engineering but just in general, it will come back to you if you just start reading through some books. At least the gist of things are buried down in there. Maybe an FE Refresher book would be a good start.
Elsevier keeps trying to recommend I buy this book but I haven't yet. It has good reviews on Amazon though.
As a reference book AofE is fine, but the one that really helped make everything "click" in my mind was Electrical Engineering 101 https://www.amazon.com/Electrical-Engineering-101-Everything-Probably/dp/0123860016
This book may be exactly what you’re looking for:
Electrical Engineering 101, Third Edition: Everything You Should Have Learned in School...but Probably Didn't https://www.amazon.com/dp/0123860016/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_hcJlAb9SBRV9J
If you can solve problems instantly, since you actually have a solid non-math intuitive/visual grasp of basic electricity physics, then everyone thinks you're a genius. Well, if you aren't extremely strong in math, it just means that you're a Faraday-genius, rather than a Maxwell.
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Here's another excellent book, advanced-beginners level: Ashby "Engineering 101: everything you should have learned in school, but probably didn't "
> But I just can't understand it. Tutorials make little sense to me,
Almost nobody understands it, not the students, not the people writing tutorials. It's because our heads are full of learning barriers. For example, if you're like me, and have gone through normal public education, then you've probably never encountered the following basic physics facts:
- A battery is an electricity pump. It doesn't create or store any electricity at all. For every bit of electricity going into one battery terminal, an equal portion comes out the other terminal at the same time. None builds up inside, just like water pumps.
- Conductors are already full of electricity. Wires are like pre-filled pipes. A block of metal is like an "aquarium for electricity." The main source of electricity is: copper metal.
- Electricity in circuitry flows in complete circles, with none being gained or lost. It's not possible to "generate" electricity, or "consume" electricity.
- A bulb or an LED does not consume any electricity. For every portion of electricity flowing into one LED terminal, an equal bit comes out the other side at the same time, and the amount of electricity inside the LED never changes. None is lost. None gets converted into light.
- When you close the switch, the electricity always present in the circuit starts to rotate slowly, like a long drive belt. The whole circuit starts up at once, like a drive belt. When you take a brake off a drive belt, all the pulleys start turning instantly, since the mechanical energy is moving far faster than the rubber belt.
- Electricity is not a form of energy. A coulomb of electricity is not a joule of energy. It doesn't matter how many books say differently, since physics isn't determined by voting. Most important: electricity flows slowly in a complete circle, without being gained or lost. And, in AC circuits the electricity wiggles back and forth without moving forward. Yet at the same time the electrical energy races from the dynamo to the distant city. It's the energy which moves fast, not the electricity. They're two different things.
- Electrical energy is wave energy. It's a bit like sound waves. When books say that electricity is a form of energy, it means the author doesn't understand the difference between "wave" versus "medium." No, sound waves are not the same thing as air molecules. And electrical energy is not the same thing as electricity (electrons.) Electrical energy moves fast, while electrons just wiggle back and forth. Wave versus medium.
- Electrical energy travels at the speed of light, because it's made out of EM fields. It's EM waves, guided by wires. It travels somewhat slower than light for the same reason that light inside a glass prism slows down. Yes, electric companies are selling us radio waves. Sixty-Hz radio waves, running along wires.
Without knowing the above, I think it's hopeless to ever deeply understand how circuitry works. But, you could do as most people do, and either give up and abandon the topic. Or, give up and go to engineering school, where the math concepts are taught, but the verbal/intuitive concepts are not.
Also check out Falstad's circuit simulator, java app, where you can see the moving charges. What would electricity look like in a circuit, if we could see it? Turn java back on, and take a look.
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Yuuuuup, feeling the same way except i think i'd like to get more into the microcontroller/FPGA field of EE.
I ended up getting this book a while ago and it's actually been quite helpful in explaining things in a manageable and very equation-lite way. Definitely gonna need another source for more in-depth but for the basics it's quite good.
Something like this would also be good to have for reference.
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