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Electronics Index

Every circuit has been tested in the laboratory

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1. Preface and an introduction to the electron
2. Your Laboratory
3. Measuring Currents
4. Transisting
5. Operational Amplifiers
6. Optoelectronics (Including a review of semiconductors)
7. Thyristors
8. Time and Frequency Domains
9. Feedback
10. Interesting Circuits (Including JFET’s)
11. Power Supplies and Voltage Regulators
12. Relaxation Oscillators (Including glow discharges)
13. Voltage and Frequency Conversion
14. Phase-Locked Loops
15. Digital Electronics
16. Filters
17. Switched Capacitors and Filters
18. Sine Wave Oscillators
19. Amplitude Modulation and Superheterodynes
20. Comparators and Schmitt Triggers
21. The Hall Effect and Hall Effect Sensors
22. Coils, Inductance and Resonance
23. The Norton Operational Amplifier
24. The Operational Transconductance Amplifier
25. Temperature and Heat
26. Logarithmic Amplifier
27. Signal Switches and Sample-and-Hold Circuits
28. Transformer Coupling
29. Vacuum Tubes
30. Multiplying and Analog Computation
31. The Cathode-Ray Tube
32. Phototubes
33. Simple LC Filters
34. Servo System
35. Phase Splitting
36. Coupled Circuits
37. A High-Fidelity Tube Amplifier
38. The Eccles-Jordan Circuit and Multivibrators
39. The Blocking Oscillator
40. Ringers and Clampers
41. Analog Delay Devices
42. Varactors (And using surface-mount components)
43. The Photomultiplier
44. Light and Luminescence
45. The VTVM and GDO
46. Color
47. Numerical Displays
48. The Speed of Sound
49. Counters and Clocks
50. Binary Numbers, Boolean Algebra and Digital Design
51. DEBUG, the Parallel Port, and .COM Files
52. Controlling and Measuring with a Computer
53. Sample and Hold
54. Digital Arithmetic
55. Serial Interfaces
56. Emulating a Teletypewriter; Keyboards and printers
57. The Game Control Adapter; Making adapter boards
58. Program Creation for DOS; .EXE files and EDLIN
59. A Tale of Two Assemblers; Managing segments
60. More Vacuum Tubes
61. Ring Modulators and Hybrid Transformers
62. Using a Computer Power Supply
63. Switching Regulators
64. Building a Wattmeter
65. Biquadratic Active Filters
66. The Gyrator: Inductance without Magnetic Fields
67. Differential Signalling, EIA-485 and Grounds
68. Digitally Controlled Potentiometers
69. Programming PIC Microcontrollers
70. The Atmel AVR Microcontrollers
71. Silicon Chip Accelerometers
72. Making a Digital Compass
73. A Humidity Meter
74. Using the 1-Wire Bus
75. A Digital Barometer
76. Controlling Small DC Motors
77. PIC Interrupts
78. Using the PIC Comparator
79. The PIC Timer T1 and the AD Converter
80. Asynchronous Communication Using the Processor
81. A Magnetometer

References

There is a very large number of texts on electronic circuits, most of which are too big and rather bad. The science and algebra are easy, but the subject requires understanding, not substitution in formulas. The references below have been valuable to me, as well as to many others, and do not exhibit the faults I have mentioned.

 

1. P. Horowitz and W. Hill, The Art of Electronics, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). This famous reference contains real examples, and careful explanations. It is an indispensable reference.
2. A. S. Sedra and K. C. Smith, Microelectronic Circuits, 2nd ed. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 1987)
3. M. H. Jones, A Practical Introduction to Electronic Circuits, 3rd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
4. ARRL, The ARRL Handbook for the Radio Amateur (Newington, CT: American Radio Relay League, frequent editions). A good source of explanations, practical information and data, with emphasis on communications electronics.

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Composed by J. B. Calvert
Created 29 June 2001
Last revised 22 September 2010

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