Hands-On Electronics A Practical Introduction to Analog and Digital Circuits

Packed full of real circuits to build and test, Hands-On Electronics is a unique introduction to analog and digital electronics theory and practice. Ideal both as a college textbook and for self-study, the friendly style, clear illustrations and construction details included in the book encourage rapid and effective learning of analog and digital circuit design theory. All the major topics for a typical one semester course are covered including RC circuits, diodes, transistors, op-amps, oscillators, TTL logic, counters, D/A converters and more. There are also chapters explaining how to use the equipment needed for the examples (oscilloscope, multimeter and breadboard) together with pin-out diagrams and manufacturers' specifications for all the key components referred to in the book.

Introduction; 1. Equipment familiarization: multimeter, breadboard, and oscilloscope; 2. RC circuits; 3. Diodes; 4. Bipolar transistors; 5. Transistors II: FETs; 6. Transistors III: differential amplifier; 7. Introduction to operational amplifiers; 8. More op amp applications; 9. Comparators and oscillators; 10. Combinational logic; 11. Flip flops: saving a logic state; 12. Monostables, counters, multiplexers, and RAM; 13. Digital/analog conversion; Index.

Packed full of real circuits to build and test, Hands-On Electronics is a unique introduction to analog and digital electronics. Ideal both as a college textbook and for self-study, the friendly style, clear illustrations and construction details included encourage rapid and effective learning of analog and digital circuit design theory.

Daniel M. Kaplan received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1979 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has taught electronics laboratory courses for non-electrical-engineering majors over a fifteen-year period at Northern Illinois University and at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he is currently Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Accelerator and Particle Physics.
Christopher G. White graduated with a degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1986. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Minnesota in 1990 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is an enthusiastic and dedicated teacher who consistently receives high marks from his students.