Galvez Enrique J. Electronics with Discrete Components

Wiley, 2012. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-0470889688.This text is designed for a one-semester course on electronics. Its primary audience is second-year physics students, but it can include students from other disciplines or levels who understand elementary notions of circuits and complex numbers. Most physics programs, especially those in liberal arts colleges, can afford only a one-semester course in electronics.
Electronics is a vital part of a curriculum because it trains students in a basic skill of experimentation. With this knowledge, students can design circuits to manipulate electronic signals or drive mechanical devices. An electronics course also gives students a basic understanding of the inner workings of electronics instruments. Thus, an electronics course prepares students for advanced laboratories and, ultimately, experimental research.
Because of the nature of the topic, the course must have a huge hands-on component. Electronics is learned by experience. At Colgate University, we have been teaching a course that meets two days a week, with a one-hour lecture followed by a two- to three-hour lab.
In the lab, students build circuits that closely follow the topic of the class.We have put special effort into making those labs instructive but at the same time interesting, empowering, and fun. We made a special effort to introduce transducers in the labs, highlighting applications.
Today’s students live around black boxes, mostly ignorant of the circuits that lie within them. Our recent experience tells us that students find the discovery of how those boxes work, or even the task of building them, extremely interesting, rewarding, and useful. Thus, we can use this “revelation’’ as a way to motivate students to learn electronics.Preface.

The Basics.
Foreword: Welcome to Electronics.
Charge and Potential.
Capacitors.
Electrical Current.
Resistors.
Magnetic Devices.
Power.
Circuits.
Abstractions and Symbol Jargon.
Problems.
Lab Projects.Digital.
Introduction to Digital Electronics.
Number Systems.
Codes.
Signed Numbers.
Binary Functions.
Logic Families.
IC Wirings.
Problems.
Lab Projects.
Combinational Logic.
Boolean Algebra.
Theorems.
NAND-Gate Implementation.
Representation of Boolean Functions.
Simplification of Functions.
Karnaugh Maps.
More Than Four Variables.
Wrap-Up.
Wiring Digest: Open Collector/Drain Outputs.
Problems.
Lab Projects.
Advanced Combinational Devices.
Pragmatic Designing.
Adders.
Decoders.
Demultiplexers.
Encoders.
Multiplexers.
Problems.
Lab Projects.
Sequential Logic.
Definitions.
Flip-Flops.
D Flip-Flop.
Edge-Trigger.
JK and T Flip-Flops.
Applications of Flip-Flops.
Shift Registers.
Multivibrators.
Memory.
Epilogue to Digital: Digital I/O.
Problems.
Lab Projects.Analog.
AC Signals.
АС Circuits.
Equivalent Circuits.
Circuit Loading.
Problems.
Lab Projects.
Filters and the Frequency Domain.
RC Filters.
High-Pass Filters.
Low-Pass Filter.
Cascading Filters.
Important Considerations for Filter Design.
Transformer.
Resonant Circuits and Band-Pass Filters.
Higher-Order Filters.
Fourier Series.
Problems.
Lab Projects.
Diodes.
Physics of Semiconductors.
Diodes.
Designing Diode Circuits.
Diode Fauna.
Diode Applications.
Problems.
Lab Projects.
Transistors.
The Bipolar-Junction Transistor.
Field-Effect Transistors.
Problems.
Lab Projects.
Operational Amplifiers.
Negative Feedback.
Closed-Loop Circuits.
Open-Loop Circuits.
Real Op-Amps.
Problems.
Lab Projects.
Connecting Digital to Analog and to the World.
TTL Gates.
CMOS Gates.
Interfacing.
Interfacing the World.
Problems.
Lab Projects.Appendixes.