Free Books

Freely Redistributable Resources (AKA Free Books and Software Online)

In an effort to better focus the material, make the best use of lab resources, and reduce book costs to students; a series of textbooks and laboratory manuals have been developed at MVCC for use in our Electrical Engineering Technology and related courses. These replace the formerly used materials which, in some cases, were over $200 each, in paperback. A description of the collection can be found here. The materials listed below are available to anyone, free of cost. The following titles are copyright by the author, Professor Jim Fiore, and use a Creative Commons license. The author thanks the MVCC community for their support of these projects. PDF is the ".pdf" portable document format version, ODT is the ".odt" open document text format which is editable by Open Office and other word/document processors, HTML is an online version (thanks to LibreTexts), and PRINT links to Amazon for a printed copy at a very modest price. Kindle versions of the five texts are also available. The very small amount of money made on the sale of print textbooks goes to offset the costs of maintaining the mirror websites.

Important note: This page is updated only at the end of the fall and spring semesters. For the latest interim revisions to my texts and lab manuals, please see my mirror sites: https://www.jimfiore.org/Books.html and http://www.dissidents.com/books.htm

The works below are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Texts, Lab Manuals and Workbooks

DC Electrical Circuit Analysis: A Practical Approach: PDF ODT HTML PRINT
AC Electrical Circuit Analysis: A Practical Approach: PDF ODT HTML PRINT
Semiconductor Devices: Theory & Application: PDF ODT HTML PRINT
Operational Amplifiers & Linear Integrated Circuits/3E: PDF ODT HTML PRINT
Filter Plot Addendum for Op Amps & LIC: PDF
Embedded Controllers Using C and Arduino/2E: PDF ODT HTML PRINT

Laboratory Manual for DC Electrical Circuit Analysis: PDF ODT HTML PRINT
Laboratory Manual for AC Electrical Circuit Analysis: PDF ODT HTML PRINT
Laboratory Manual for Semiconductor Devices: Theory & Application: PDF ODT HTML PRINT
Laboratory Manual for Operational Amplifiers & Linear Integrated Circuits/3E: PDF ODT HTML PRINT
Laboratory Manual for Embedded Controllers Using C and Arduino/2E: PDF ODT HTML PRINT
Laboratory Manual for Computer Programming with Python, Multisim & TINA/4E: PDF ODT HTML PRINT
Laboratory Manual for Science of Sound: PDF ODT HTML PRINT

The workbooks below are condensed versions of the DC and AC Circuit Analysis texts with roughly the same problem sets.
Workbook for DC Electrical Circuits: PDF ODT PRINT
Workbook for AC Electrical Circuits: PDF ODT PRINT

For convenience, all of the print versions can be found on my author's page: www.amazon.com/author/jimfiore

I have created a YouTube channel with videos supporting these texts: Electronics with Professor Fiore:

OER From Other Sources

Digital Electronics 1 Laboratory Manual by Professor William Hunt, available in PDF or DOCX.

Here are some open and/or free items that I can recommend. I have used these for my coursework and to create the books and videos listed above.

You don't have to use MS Office! Here are two good office suites that include a word processor, spreadsheet, graphics, etc., and best of all, they're free, open and multi-platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS) : https://www.openoffice.org/ and https://www.libreoffice.org/. I use Open Office for most of my work and it's the primary tool I used to create my OER texts.

SciDAVis Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization is an excellent, easy to use, free, multi-platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS) data plotting and visualization application.
XnView is a graphics file viewer and editor. Free for non-commerical use, it is great for manipulating image files.
TINA-TI DesignSoft's free circuit simulator, runs under Windows.
Dia Diagram Editor A nice tool to create diagrams, simple graphs and the like.
OBS Open Broadcaster Software is great for a variety of video needs, including creating instructional videos that use your computer desktop.
Sample Wrench A blatant plug for the free audio editor and analyzer that I created and which lives on my other site, dissidents.com.
fre:ac A free audio converter. A useful companion for Sample Wrench. I also use it to make backups of audio CDs.

In a culture that seeks to monetize everything, creating something of value and then giving it away is a subversive act.

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