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Principles of Analog Electronics
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Principles of Analog Electronics

by Giovanni Saggio
January 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
567 pages
23h 13m
English
CRC Press
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Physical and Electrical Background
Electronics isdened as the scientic study of the behavior and design of elec-
tronic devices and circuits, based on some fundamental physical and electrical
denitions.
2.1 FORCE, WORK, ENERGY, POWER
The (mechanical) force
F
refers to any (physical) cause
capable of modifying the condition of constant speed of
a body (note that even a stationary body has a constant
speed, equal to zero), or of deforming it.
The SI unit of force is the Newton [N] (Sir Isaac Newton,
an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natu-
ral philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, 1642–1727,
Figure2.1).
A force
F
acting on a ...
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ISBN: 9781466582026