Practical Electronics
A Self-Teaching Guide
Wiley Self-Teaching Guides
1. Edition November 2003
288 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Learn practical electronics at your own pace
What is a semiconductor? How do you lay out circuits to avoid noise
and interference? What do inductors and transformers have in
common? How does a coaxial cable carry power to an antenna? With
Practical Electronics: A Self-Teaching Guide, you'll discover the
answers to these questions and many more about the basics of
electricity and electronic components.
Thoroughly researched for our digital age, this easy-to-use guide
makes familiar the workings of transistors, capacitors, diodes,
resistors, integrated circuits, and more. Electronics expert Ralph
Morrison starts you off with two of the simplest electronic
components, showing you how to combine them into circuits and then
add more components to create more complex circuits. He includes
detailed "learning circuits," which are electronic circuits you can
build yourself, even if you have had no prior electronics
experience. The clearly structured format of Practical Electronics
makes it fully accessible, providing an easily understood,
comprehensive overview for everyone from the student to the
engineer to the hobbyist.
Like all Self-Teaching Guides, Practical Electronics allows you to
build gradually on what you have learned-at your own pace.
Questions and self-tests reinforce the information in each chapter
and allow you to skip ahead or focus on specific areas of concern.
Packed with useful, up-to-date information, this clear, concise
volume is a valuable learning tool and reference source for anyone
who wants to improve his or her understanding of basic electronics.
A Note to the Reader.
1. Resistors, Capacitors, and Voltage.
2. Inductors, Transformers, and Resonance.
3. Introduction to Semiconductors.
4. More Semiconductor Circuits.
5. Feedback and IC Amplifiers.
6. IC Applications.
7. Circuit Construction, Radiation, and Interference.
8. A Review of Basic Electrical Concepts.
Appendix I: Preparing to Use the Learning Circuits.
Appendix II: Basic Algebra.
Index.
