Spark your creativity and gain the electronics skills required to transform your innovative ideas into functioning gadgets. This hands-on, updated guide outlines electrical principles and provides thorough, easy-to-follow instructions, schematics, and illustrations. Find out how to select components, safely assemble circuits, perform error tests, and build plug-and-play prototypes. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Third Edition, features all-new chapters on sensors, microcontrollers, modular electronics, and the latest software tools.
Contents
Part I - Theory
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Theory
Part II - Devices
- Chapter 3. Basic Electronic Components
- Chapter 4. Discrete Semiconductors
- Chapter 5. Optoelectronics
- Chapter 6. Sensors
- Chapter 7. Hands-on Electronics
Part III - Design
- Chapter 8. Operational Amplifiers
- Chapter 9. Filters
- Chapter 10. Oscillators and Timers
- Chapter 11. Voltage Regulators and Power Supplies
- Chapter 12. Digital Electronics
- Chapter 13. Microcontrollers
- Chapter 14. Electromechanical Devices
- Chapter 15. Audio Electronics
- Chapter 16. Applied Electronics
Part IV - Appendixes
- Appendix A. Power Distribution and Home Wiring
- Appendix B. Error Analysis
- Appendix C. Useful Facts and Formulas
- Appendix D. Component Data, List of Logic ICs, Foreign Semiconductor Codes
About the Authors
- Paul Scherz is a physicist/mechanical engineer who received his B.S. in physics from the University of Wisconsin. He is an inventor/hobbyist in electronics, an area he grew to appreciate through his experience at the University's Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics and the Department of Plasma Physics.
- Dr. Simon Monk has a degree in Cybernetics and Computer Science and a PhD in Software Engineering. Monk spent several years as an academic before he returned to industry, co-founding the mobile software company Momote Ltd. He has been an active electronics hobbyist since his early teens and is a full time writer on hobby electronics and open source hardware.
Book Details
- Paperback: 1040 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics; 3 edition (January 10, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0071771336
- ISBN-13: 978-0071771337
- Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 1.5 x 10.8 inches
- List Price: $40.00