EE Design Calcs: Mastery Expected? Textbook Examples?

In summary, the conversation discusses the lack of equations in the 'Art of Electronics' book and whether the authors expect readers to already be familiar with design calculations. It suggests that the book is meant to be a broad introduction to EE topics, rather than a comprehensive resource for calculations, and mentions that other textbooks may be better suited for in-depth learning.
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Looking through the Art of Electronics, I barely see any equations, mostly description.

However, checking out this video, we get a whole page of calculations.

Are the authors of AoE expecting that practitioners are already fluent in these design calculations? Are there examples of such calculations, in textbooks? Perhaps in more advanced monographs instead of general circuit theory books?
 
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The 'Art of Electronics' becomes the 'science of electronics' when mathematics becomes involved.
Some people appreciate only the art, some understand the science, and some only the mathematics.
Each group requires a different approach.
 
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yucheng said:
Are the authors of AoE expecting that practitioners are already fluent in these design calculations?
I don't think so. The AoE is more of a broad introduction to many EE topics without going into a lot of depth. And one emphasis of the book is to expose many misconceptions that EEs can often have.

If you want a more in-depth EE learning resources, just look at typical textbooks for EE undergraduate courses.
 

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