Book description
In Understand Electronics, Owen Bishop covers the basics needed in all the main areas of electronics with a jargon-free, informative style, and numerous illustrations.
An essential book for the newcomer to electronics, this highly practical guide provides a thorough introduction to practical electronics and the basic principles of electronic components and circuitry. Owen Bishop, a leading international electronics author, takes a step-by-step approach, employing the minimum of mathematics, to create a text that is ideal for the student or enthusiast who has little previous knowledge of the subject area but wishes to find out more.
The new edition has been thoroughly updated throughout, with many new illustrations and coverage of recent advances in electronics, including a chapter on microcontrollers - the simple programmable devices that are transforming electronics project work. A new section on test equipment reinforces the practical emphasis of the book.
- A practical guide made highly accessible through clear explanations and numerous illustrations
- Assumes little previous knowledge of the subject area or mathematical background
- Covers the basics needed in all the main areas of electronics
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright page
- Introduction
- 1: Electrons and electricity
- 2: E.m.f. and potential
- 3: Resistance
- 4: Capacitance
- 5: Inductance
- 6: Simple circuits
- 7: Semiconduction
- 8: Transistors
- 9: Semiconductor circuits
- 10: Power supply circuits
- 11: Sensors and transducers
- 12: Optoelectronic sensors
- 13: Light sources and displays
- 14: Test equipment
- 15: From components to circuits
- 16: Oscillating circuits
- 17: Amplifying circuits
- 18: Operational amplifiers
- 19: Logic circuits
- 20: Audio electronics
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21: Computers
- System clock
- Control unit
- Central processing unit
- Input ports
- Output ports
- Buses
- Interrupt lines
- Read-only memory
- Random access memory
- Disk drives
- Cards
- Input peripherals
- Keyboard
- Mouse
- Trackball
- Digitizing pad
- Touch screen
- Scanner
- Magnetic stripe reader
- Optical disks
- Magneto-optical disks
- Output peripherals
- Printers
- Hardware and software
- Languages
- 22: Microcontrollers
- 23: Telecommunications
- 24: Microwaves
- 25: Detection and measurement
- 26: Electronic control
- 27: Electronics and the future
- Acknowledgements
- Index
Product information
- Title: Understand Electronics, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2001
- Publisher(s): Newnes
- ISBN: 9780080519890
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