Preface to the Second Edition
Changes in the second edition
The author and the editors received many comments from readers regarding the content of the first edition of this book. Based, partly, on these concerns, the following additions were made to the second edition:
Chapter 2: a section on the “logarithmic decrement”, a very useful technique, used primarily by mechanical engineers to estimate the damping ratio of a pole pair, from measurements of the transient response, was added.
Chapter 5: an example of tuned transistor amplifier was added.
Chapter 7: the section on the emitter follower was extensively expanded to discuss the dreaded high-frequency emitter follower oscillation. Lab experiments were shown where a 2N3904 emitter follower ...
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