by Doug Coulter » Thu Aug 14, 2014 10:10 am
Well, I do hope to accomplish it, so if you have a normal lifespan and I do, you'll see it, we're closer than I've yet reported...all that fussy stuff about replicating results and trying to get another lab to do so also - we try to play by the better rules here, though we have a healthy disrespect for "academic authority" on the side, we try to never "cheat" the few good rules they've come up with either, even though they now do so regularly out of ignorance.
That said, welcome, read, use the search function, some of this might start out being much more advanced than where you are now, but you'll get there if you try - For begginer stuff, the ARRL handbooks of yore when hams still built things are about the most concise explanations of basic EE there are out there. A little more advanced is Fredrick Terman's Radio Engineer's handbook. Most of even the modern stuff flows from that WWII tome, it's amazing how well he anticipated things, it's just that we now work more with semiconductors than vacuum tubes - but a resistor is still a resistor, a gain element is what it is, even though it uses somewhat different speeds and feeds...and so on.
Welcome aboard...hope this works out for ya.
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.