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Packed stuffed with actual circuits to construct and check, Hands-On Electronics is a singular introduction to analog and digital electronics idea and observe. Perfect each as a school textbook and for self-study, the pleasant fashion, clear illustrations and development particulars included within the ebook encourage speedy and efficient studying of analog and digital circuit design idea. All the main subjects for a typical one-semester course are lined, together with RC circuits, diodes, transistors, op amps, oscillators, digital logic, counters, D/A converters and extra. There are additionally chapters explaining the way to use the gear wanted for the examples (oscilloscope, multimeter and breadboard), along with pinout diagrams for all the important thing parts referred to within the ebook.

To the Reader

A few of chances are you’ll be encountering digital circuits and devices for the primary time. Others might have ‘performed round’ with such stuff if, for instance, you have been ever bitten by the ‘ham radio’ bug. In both case, this sequence of laboratory experiments has been designed to introduce you to the basics of recent analog and digital electronics.

We use digital gear on a regular basis in our work and recreation. Scientists and engineers have to know a little bit of electronics, for instance to switch or restore some piece of kit, or to interface two items of kit that won’t have been designed for that function. To that finish, our aim is that by the tip of the ebook, it is possible for you to to design and construct any little analog or digital circuit chances are you’ll discover helpful, or no less than perceive it effectively sufficient to have an clever dialog about the issue with {an electrical} engineer.

A fundamental data of electronics will even aid you to grasp and recognize the quirks and limitations of devices you may be utilizing in analysis, testing, growth, or process-control settings. We anticipate few of you to have a lot familiarity with such bodily theories as electromagnetism or quantum mechanics, so the thrust of this course will likely be from phenomena and devices towards idea, not the opposite method spherical. In case your curiosity is aroused regarding theoretical explanations, a lot the higher, however unfamiliarity with bodily idea shouldn’t stop you from constructing or utilizing digital circuits and devices.

Acknowledgments 

We’re grateful to Profs Carlo Segre and Tim Morrison for his or her contributions and help, and particularly to the IIT college students with out whom this ebook would by no means have been potential. Lastly, we thank our wives and youngsters for his or her assist and persistence. It’s to them that we dedicate this ebook.

The ebook can be appropriate for self-study by an individual who has entry to the required gear and desires a hands-on introduction to the topic. We really feel strongly, and expertise at IIT has borne out, that to somebody who will likely be working with digital instrumentation, a hands-on schooling within the methods of electronics is far more invaluable than a blackboardand-lecture strategy. Definitely it’s a higher studying course of than merely studying a ebook and working by way of issues.

Hands-On Electronics: A Practical Introduction to Analog and Digital Circuits PDF

Author(s): Daniel M. Kaplan, Christopher G. White

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2003

ISBN: 9780511078255