by Doug Coulter » Sat Mar 05, 2011 4:22 pm
Bob taught me a lot of electronics too, and he hangs out with another poster here, Joe Sousa, who currently designs chips for Linear Technology -- they've got a bunch of that crowd working there now.
Bob wrote a bunch of the application notes in the old National Semi book, if you can find one of those, it's highly recommended -- about 1978 or 1980 they were handing them out to engineers.
Maybe we should ask him to join (along with the rest of my heros from that era -- Joe's crowd, more or less these days). I do have his email, and a few others from that group, all still working/playing with electronics. The fun thing to do with the app book is find the bugs in the schematics -- there are about 10 in the book, kind of a test to see if you understand it (most are pretty obvious and that never caused me any trouble).
They're all pretty much electronics-heads, dunno if any of them get into physics or not, I'll have to ask. Hopefully people will be politely respectful if any of them show up here.
Posting as just me, not as the forum owner. Everything I say is "in my opinion" and YMMV -- which should go for everyone without saying.