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Good Deep-Knowledge Analog Design Books? 65

Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @04:14PM from the ice-blocks-the-cave-door dept.

NorthNitro writes "I live in a part of the world where quality technical books are not accessible from local distributors. When I order, from international distributors, I have to keep exchange rate and shipping costs in mind; so I really need to be careful with my choices when purchasing books. I am a graduate engineer (5 years experience) that focuses on analog and digital hardware design. Next year I will be starting a complicated analog design project. This design will include circuits that integrating Pico amp currents, a lot of discrete transistor circuits and high precision op-amp circuits. I don't want a cookbook; I rather want something that can provide me with solid theoretical descriptions/models of circuits. The kind of knowledge that gives you deep understanding of analog circuits design. Can anyone suggest good books and maybe where to order them from?"

Submission + - Could alien life exist as DNA-shaped dust?

Submitted by

David Shiga

on Friday August 10, 2007 @04:16PM

David Shiga writes: "Could alien life exist in the form of dancing specks of dust? A computer simulation by Gregor Morfill of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and colleagues shows electrically charged dust can organize itself into DNA-like double helixes that behave in many ways like living organisms, reproducing and passing on information to one another, New Scientist reports. Whether it could be considered alive or not, there are many places in space where conditions might be favorable to self-organizing dust, such as the rings of Saturn."

Submission + - Man flies 193 miles in lawn chair (cnn.com)

Submitted by

GillBates0

on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @04:10PM

GillBates0 writes: "CNN is reporting that Kent Couch managed to fly 193 miles in a lawn chair fitted with 105 helium balloons. The flight lasted approximately 9 hours, after which he touched down safely in an Oregon farm. As he made about 25 miles an hour, a three-car caravan filled with friends, family and the dog followed him from below. In 1982, Larry Walters tried a similar feat in Los Angeles and surprised an airline pilot, who radioed the control tower that he had just passed a guy in a lawn chair. His wife was quoted as saying "I know he'd be thinking about it more and more, it would always be on his mind. This way, at least he's fulfilled his dream.""

Submission + - China's Deaths due to Air Pollution

Submitted by cagrin on Monday July 09, 2007 @03:36PM

cagrin writes: From the article: "China, the world's fastest growing economy, has earned another startling superlative: the highest annual incidence of premature deaths triggered by air pollution in the world, according to a new study.

A World Health Organization (WHO) report estimates that diseases triggered by indoor and outdoor air pollution kill 656,000 Chinese citizens each year, and polluted drinking water kills another 95,600."

Link: Chinese Air Pollution Deadliest in World

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