[regarding RC networks and the like]

You've probably heard it before, but I'll say it again:

The best single book on electronics (as practiced by folks
like us) is The Art of Electronics, by Paul Horowitz
and Winfield Hill. I've read a lot of books on electronics
and designed a lot of products, and this covers most
everything in enough detail to get you going.

The Art of Electronics
Horowitz & Hill
Cambridge University Press
ISBN 0-521-37095-7

Winfield Hill can be reached on the Internet, hill@rowland.org.

This book begins with "What's a resistor", progresses through
capacitors and inductors, transistors, ICs, etc......and by
the end there's state machines, CPUs, micropower design, sensor
interfacing and the like. There's a bare minimum of heavy math,
replaced instead by good *intuitive* descriptions of what the
parts are doing. It even covers power-on-reset circuits! :-)

GO to the bookstore.
BUY the book.
SET it on the toilet tank.
READ a chapter on each visit.

You'll be an electronics guru in thirty days. Or maybe less,
depending on your diet. :-)

forbesm@csos.orst.edu
Mark G. Forbes