Switching Power Supplies A - Z

Preface

Looking back, I realize there was actually never an exact moment when I said to myself

“I have had it with Physics — let me do Electronics now”! My near mid-life career change

was a rather gradual process. Faced with an exponentially declining interest in pi-mesons,

Lagrangian multipliers, quantum electrodynamics, and so on, my grades had started scraping

the bottom of the barrel. It didn’t help that I perceived my last bunch of professors to be

largely apathetic to students in general — it seemed that teaching just happened to be what

they needed to keep doing, to be eligible for research grants, which is what they really

enjoyed doing. And Physics itself, for all its initial undergraduate allure, had at the

post-graduate level, turned suddenly ...