Electronics

Staying away from hard-to-understand theory and mathematics, this practical handbook show you how common devices such as multimeters, frequency and logic probes, signal traces, and oscilloscopes are used. You'll pinpoint problems in everything from TV sets and computers to automotive electrical systems.

A practical, hands-on guide to troubleshooting with electronic test equipment - revised to include current testing techniques and new chapters on mechanical repairs and flowcharting.

This is an all-in-one guide to electronic component specifications and applications. With this handy benchtop reference, you'll have at your fingertips a one-stop source of practical information on virtually every kind of electronic component. In "Electronic Components: A Complete Reference For Project Builders", Delton T. Horn provides you with the important working characteristics, specifications, and uses for each component listed. Horn, a well-known electronics expert, has divided this book into three parts - passive nonamplifying components; active devices (semiconductor components); and miscellaneous devices (for example, transducers and switches). You'll find a wide range of topics that give you all the data necessary for successful experimentation: wire and solder; capacitors; diodes; linear ICs; resistors; coils and transformers; transistors; and digital ICs. Throughout, Horn presents helpful insights into the theory and operation of components in typical circuit designs, the pros and cons of using devices in various situations, where and how to find parts, and criteria for making substitutions. Armed with this book and a manufacturer's specification sheet, you can be confident that you're choosing the proper components for your circuit designs.

This essential title in "McGraw-Hill's Robot DNA" series is just what robotics hobbyists need to build an effective drive train using inexpensive, off-the-shelf parts. Leaving heavy-duty "tech speak" behind, the authors focus on the actual concepts and applications necessary to build - and understand - these critical force-conveying systems. If you're hooked on amateur robotics and want a clear, straight-forward guide to the nuts-and-bolts of drive trains, this is the way to go. It includes everything you need to build your own robot drive train: The Basics of Robot Locomotion, Motor Types - An Overview; Using DC Motors; Using RC Servo Motors; Using Stepper Motors; Motor Mounting; Motor Control; Electronics Interfacing; Wheels and Treads; Locomotion for Multipods; and Glossary of Terms/Tables, Formulas.

The first major reference for modern thyristor design to explain the design of power semiconductor thyristors. Introduces the power thyristor to the beginner and explains the detailed device physics of operation to form a foundation for the main part of the book, which details the actual designing of thyristors. All types of thyristors are included and data is presented in a manner designed to be accessible to both the specialist device designer and the power electronics circuit engineer. Expanding on the discussion of thyristor design, it considers the special requirements of advanced types, including: turn-ON, ON-state, turn-OFF, OFF-state. Also includes detailed design considerations for the basic thyristor and special types such as the ASCR, GATT, GTO, SITh, LASCR and others. Extensive references.

An off-beat introduction to the workings of electricity for people who wish Richard Brautigan and Kurt Vonnegut had teamed up to explain inductance and capacitance to them. Despite its title, it's not wild ranting pseudo-science to be dismissed by those with brains. Rather, Amdahl maintains that one need not understand quantum physics to grasp how electricity works in practical applications. To understand your toaster or your fax machine, it doesn't really matter whether there are electrons or not, and it's a lot easier and more fun to start with the toaster than with quarks and calculus. The book is mildly weird, often funny, always clear and easy to understand. It assumes the reader doesn't know a volt from a hole in the ground and gently leads him or her through integrated circuits, radio, oscillators and the basics of the digital revolution using examples that include green buffalo, microscopic beer parties, break-dancing chickens and naked Norwegian girls in rowboats. OK, it's more than mildly weird.

The book has been reprinted numerous times since 1991 and has achieved minor cult status. Reviewed and praised in dozens of electronics and educational magazines, it is used as a text by major corporations, colleges, high schools, military schools and trade schools. It has been studied by education programs at colleges across the United States. This book was making wise cracks in the corner before anyone thought of designing books for dummies and idiots; some say it helped to inspire that industry.

It may be the only "introduction to electronics books" with back cover comments by Dave Barry, Ray Bradbury, Clive Cussler, and George Garrett, as well as recomendations from Robert Hazen, Bob Mostafapour, Dr. Roger Young, Dr. Wayne Green, Scott Rundle, Brian Battles, Michelle Guido, Herb Reichert and Emil Venere. As Monitoring Times said, "Perhaps the best electronics book ever. If you'd like to learn about basic electronics but haven't been able to pull it off, get There Are No Electrons. Just trust us. Get the book."

Addresses new developments in the design and fabrication of bipolar transistors for high-speed digital circuits. Covers advances in silicon technology (such as polysilicon emitters and self-aligned fabrication techniques), gallium arsenide technology (such as extremely high-performance MSI circuits resulting from the development of GaAs/GaAlAs heterojunctions), and new applications of bipolar transistors (such as optoelectronic circuits). Also deals with optimization of bipolar devices and processes for high-speed, digital circuits by means of a quasi-analytical expression for the gate delay of an ECL logic gate. Includes case studies.

A systematic presentation of the basic principles of digital and analog electronics that includes the electrical engineering and physics background necessary for independent applications. Uses elementary concepts such as Boolean algebra, Thevenin's theorem, Kirchhoff's laws, and the rotational operator to show the roots of the properties discussed. Digital and analog electronics are covered independently, with a parallel set of laboratory exercises to give coherence to the material and to illustrate the practical aspects of making and using electronic circuits. They are then brought together in the later chapters on analog-digital conversion. The general properties of electrical circuit theory, solid state electronic devices, electrical amplifiers, and feedback circuits are developed and applied throughout the text. Also explores the architecture of microprocessors through an arithmetic algorithm and discusses the many arithmetic number systems used in computers.

The analysis of semiconductor rib waveguides has, until now, relied upon very large finite difference or finite element calculations, sometimes using array processors. Here is a comprehensive introduction to the new spectral index method--a fast, accurate, reliable and stable method for finding waveguide propagation constants using Fourier methods. Shows researchers and professionals the field specific state-of-the-art problem-solving methods as well as wider applications in the many similar circumstances where both reliability and accuracy are considered mandatory.