The Electronics Companion: Devices and Circuits for Physicists and Engineers

Content: 1. Electricity --
Electric charge --
Electric flux --
Conductors and insulators --
Electric current --
Conventional current--
Potential difference --
Resistance--
Resistivity --
Variation of resistance --
Resistor circuits --
Electromotive force --
Capacitance --
Capacitors --
Energy stored in a capacitor --
Capacitor circuits --
Inductance --
Inductors --
Discharge and stored energy --
2. DC circuits --
Superposition --
Kirchhoff's Laws --
Thevenin's Theorem --
Norton's Theorem --
Equivalence of Norton and Thevenin --
Maximum power transfer --
3. AC circuits --
AC voltage --
Resistance --
rms voltage and current --
Capacitive reactance --
Inductive reactance --
LCR series circuit --
LCR circuit : peak and rms voltage --
Impedance --
Low-pass filter --
High-pass filter --
Complex impedance (series) --
Resonance (series) --
Impedance (parallel) --
AC circuits --
Filters complex form --
Signal generator and oscilloscope --
AC bridge --
4. Diodes --
Semiconductors --
P- and N-type semiconductors --
Response in an electric field --
P-N junction --
Contact potential --
Potential diagram --
Forward bias --
Reverse bias --
Diode --
Diode equation --
Reverse bias breakdown --
Rectification --
Regulation --
Clipper --
Clamp --
Pump --
Photodiode --
LED --
5. Bipolar junction transistor --
Construction --
Operation --
Transistor characteristic --
Load line --
Saturation --
Transistor switch --
Simple bias --
Emitter bias --
Stabilisation --
Voltage amplifier --
Bias --
6. Common emitter amplifier --
Coupling capacitors --
Bypass capacitor --
Voltage amplifier --
DC analysis --
AC analysis --
Input and output resistances : AC --
AC voltage gain --
Bypass capacitor --
Amplifier design --
7. Input/output impedance --
CE input impedance---
CE output impedance--
AC voltage gain --
Impedance matching --
Common collector --
CC output impedance --
CC input/output impedance --
Darlington pair --
8. Field effect transistor --
JFET --
Drain curve --
Load line --
Biasing --
Amplifier biasing --
Common source amplifier --
Drain conductance --
Amplifier design --
MOSFETS --
CMOS --
9. High frequency --
BJT capacitance --
Transition frequency --
Common emitter amplifier --
Miller effect --
Output capacitance --
Amplification at high frequencies --
10. Power amplifiers --
Class A amplifier --
Class B amplifier --
Class AB amplifier --
Class AB diode biasing --
11. Transients --
R-C circuit analysis --
Time constant and half-life --
R-C low-pass filter --
R-C high-pass filter --
R-L circuits --
R-L filter circuits --
Transistor circuits --
Active pull-up --
Integrator/differentiator --
12. Digital electronics --
Digital logic --
Logic gate characteristics --
Digital logic circuits --
Boolean logic examples --
Logic circuit analysis --
Karnaugh map --
Flip-flops --
D-latch --
J-K master-slave flip-flop --
Monostable multivibrator --
555 timer --
13. Operational amplifiers --
Differential amplifier --
Operational amplifier --
Feedback --
Inverting amplifier --
Non-inverting amplifier --
Offset --
Op-amp bias --
Common mode gain --
Op-amp applications --
Operational adder --
Comparator --
Schmitt trigger --
Integrator/differentiator --
Instrumentation amplifier --
Audio amplifier --
Active filter (1st order) --
Active filter (2nd order) --
14. Transformers --
Transformer equations --
Transformer action --
Transformer impedance--
Load component of primary --
Reflected impedance --
Real transformers --
Transformer tests --
Transformer efficiency --
15. Power suppliers --
Rectification --
Regulation --
Load and line regulation --
Thyristor and triac --
16. Instrumentation --
Transducers --
Noise --
Transfer function --
Integrator/'Differentiator --
Amplification --
Sampling --
Digital resolution --
Analog to digital conversion --
Digital to analog conversion --
Computer architecture --
Ports --
17. Laboratory --
Thevenin's Theorem --
AC circuits --
Diode characteristics --
Energy gap --
Diode circuits --
Clipper and clamps --
Transistor characteristics --
NiCad battery charger --
Transistor amplifier --
Amplifier design --
Impedance matching --
FET --
Common source amplifier --
Logic gates --
Logic circuits --
Counters and flip-flops --
Op-amps --
Comparator --
Integrator --
Component values