List of Figures

Figure 1.1 Major sectors of the electronics industry and common applications 04
Figure 1.2 General block diagram of how the electronics industry works from raw materials to end users 06
Figure 1.3 Model of how all electronic circuits and equipment work. Input signals are processed by circuits and equipment into new output signals 08
Figure 1.4 Model showing how a cell phone communicates with a cell site to make a call 08
Figure 1.5 Block diagram representing any digital computer, be it a mainframe, PC, or embedded controller 10
Figure 1.6 The most common form of robot emulates a human arm and hand to perform work automatically under the control of a computer 12
Figure 2.1 Physics model of what a copper atom looks like 17
Figure 2.2 Basic ...

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