<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:40 PM, George Hunt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:georgejhunt@gmail.com">georgejhunt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks Xavier,<div><br></div><div>The first reference looks best for my purposes -- but maybe more practical than I was hoping for. (I ordered it online, and shipped to my NYC address).</div><div><br></div><div>I'm really wanting to find a book that starts from the beginning:</div>
<div><ol><li>What is a conductor, an insulator?</li><li>What is a circuit, DC, AC</li><li>What does a battery do?</li><li>What is a electromagnet? How is a magnet used to generate AC?</li><li>Why does a capacitor store a charge?</li>
<li>Why transformers? What do they do? Concepts of current, voltage, resistance, power.</li><li>ETC. . .</li></ol></div><div>Maybe Tony Foster's idea of using the XO and turtle art is where I'll have to go in the end.</div>
<div><br></div><div>At least I see real benefit in hands on experimentation.</div><div><br></div><div>George</div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br>George,<br><br>For such basic concepts, you might be able to pull together a decent collection of Wikipedia articles to cover some theoretical ground.<br>
<br>If you haven't tried the Book Creator tool in wikipedia, it is very easy to use and produces decent PDF and not quite as good ODT output from the list fo articles you select and organize.<br><br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator">http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=book_creator</a><br>
<br>cjl<br><br></div></div>