The Manga Guide to Electricity by Kazuhiro Fujitaki

The Manga Guide to Electricity

Kazuhiro Fujitaki, Co Ltd Trend

No Starch Press · Paperback · March 1, 2009

Rereko is just your average high-school girl from Electopia, the land of electricity, but she's totally failed her final electricity exam!

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Who it’s for
Manga storytelling meets explanations of electrical ideas through familiar everyday devices.
Themes
Electricity and its everyday uses, Voltage, current, and resistance, Electrical components and circuits
Genres
Electricity & Circuits, General Manga, Technology

About this book

Rereko is just your average high-school girl from Electopia, the land of electricity, but she's totally failed her final electricity exam! Now she has to go to summer school on Earth. And this time, she has to pass. Luckily, her ever-patient tutor Hikaru is there to help.

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Join them in the pages of The Manga Guide to Electricity as Rereko examines everyday electrical devices like flashlights, heaters, and circuit breakers, and learns the meaning of abstract concepts like voltage, potential, current, resistance, conductivity, and electrostatic force. The real-world examples that you'll find in The Manga Guide to Electricity will teach you: –What electricity is, how it works, how it's created, and how it can be used –The relationship between voltage, current, and resistance (Ohm's law) –Key electrical concepts like inductance and capacitance –How complicated components like transformers, semiconductors, diodes, and transistors work –How electricity produces heat and the relationship between current and magnetic fields If thinking about how electricity works really fries your brain, let The Manga Guide to Electricity teach you all things electrical in a shockingly fun way.

Current Meets Manga

Manga storytelling meets explanations of electrical ideas through familiar everyday devices.

Come here for

  • Flashlights and heaters as entry points to electrical concepts
  • Voltage, current, resistance, and the devices that use them

Expect

  • A mix of manga and explanations, from Ohm’s law to semiconductors

Where it sits

Technology42%
Electricity & Circuits29%
General Manga28%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • General Manga
  • Electricity & Circuits
  • Electronics
Authors
Kazuhiro Fujitaki, Co Ltd Trend
Publisher
No Starch Press
Published
March 1, 2009
Format
Paperback
Theme
Electricity and its everyday uses · Voltage, current, and resistance · Electrical components and circuits
Reading lane
General Manga