Starting Electronics (eBook)

All You Need to Get a Grounding in Practical Electronics

Keith Brindley (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2016 | 1. Auflage
230 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4831-0558-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Starting Electronics is a nine-chapter introductory text to electronics based on feature articles previously published as magazine articles. The opening chapter provides an overview of the fundamentals of electronics. The succeeding chapters present details of some easy-to-do experiments and the current and voltage measurement. The remaining chapters cover some basic components of electronics, including capacitor, integrated circuit, oscillator, filter, diodes, and transistors. This book will prove useful to electronic constructors and students.

Keith is a freelance journalist whose whole life (well, apart from the wife, the kids, the music and the mountain bike) is computers. He's been writing about them (computers, that is) for over 18 years, in the meantime working as a teacher, lecturer, engineer, journalist and finally (for the last 12 years) freelance in the computing field. He fondly remembers his first contacts with the Commodore Pet, the various Sinclair oddities, the BBC, PC-DOS, MS-DOS, the Mac, and the various incarnations of Windows. He dreams of new software and hardware, he realises that writing about computers makes little compared to making computers or writing the software for them, he is fully committed to passing his experience along to and making computer-life easier for his readers, yet still enjoys what he's doing. Which can't be all bad!

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Starting Electronics 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
Preface 8
Chapter 1. The very first steps 10
What you need 11
Tools of the trade 12
Ideas about electricity 15
Charge 17
Relationships 21
Electronic components 26
Resistors 28
Time out 30
Quiz 31
Chapter 2. On the boards 32
All aboard 33
ICs 36
The first circuit 41
Experiment 44
The second circuit 50
The next circuit 53
More and more complex circuits 57
Quiz 59
Chapter 3. Measuring current and voltage 60
One man's meter.... 68
A meter with potential 72
Practically there 74
Voltages 77
Ohms per volt 82
Quiz 85
Chapter 4. Capacitors 86
Capacitors 88
Down to business 89
Measuring up 91
Getting results 93
The other way 99
Theoretical aspects 103
Quiz 107
Chapter 5. ICs, oscillators and filters 108
Throwing light on it 116
Ouch, that hertz 118
Filter Tips 128
Quiz 131
Chapter 6. Diodes I 132
Which way round? 135
Tricky 141
Reverse bias 147
Chapter 7. Diodes II 154
Maths 158
Load lines 159
Diode circuits 164
Filter tips 168
Stability built in 169
Practically there 171
Quiz 175
Chapter 8. Transistors 176
Very close 180
NPN 187
Using transistors 189
Quiz 193
Chapter 9. Integrated circuits 194
Integrated circuits 195
Building on blocs 200
Turning things upside-down 204
Follow me 207
Offset nulling 211
Get back 212
And now the time has come... 214
Quiz 215
Glossary 216
Quiz answers 229
Index 230

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.1.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bauwesen
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• ISBN-10: 1-4831-0558-X / 148310558X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4831-0558-1 / 9781483105581