Karplus Kevin. Applied Analog Electronics

Leanpub, 2020. — 673 p.Textbook for two-quarter course on electronics. Designed around the lab projects, not the theory. Three main concepts: voltage dividers, complex impedance, and negative-feedback amplifiers. Includes blood-pressure, optical pulse monitor, EKG, and class-D power audio amplifier, among other projects.
This textbook is for a first course on electronics. It assumes no prior electronics experience, but does assume that students have had calculus and high-school physics. Drafts of the book have been used for several years at UCSC. A key idea of the course is that students need a lot of design experience and hands-on work, rather than a lot of theory. The course is centered around the labs, which are a mix of design labs and measurement/modeling labs.
The book is also intended for people to be able to learn from without a course, and many of the recent changes are to make the book more useful to hobbyists and students on a limited budget, by changing the labs so that they can be done without expensive lab equipment. The equipment needed is described in the Preface.