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Electronics with Discrete Components. Edition No. 2

  • Book

  • 448 Pages
  • April 2025
  • John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • ID: 5996400
Comprehensive textbook on electronics for physicists, now with more examples, exercises, hands-on electronics labs, troubleshooting tips, and practical exercises

Electronics with Discrete Components delivers a comprehensive overview of electronics from the perspective of a physicist. In the first part on digital components, after an introduction to digital electronics, the text covers fundamentals of combinational logic and its implementation in combinational logic devices, followed by sequential-logic devices such as flip-flops and memory components. The second part on analog components deals with the fundamentals of signal processing, filters, and components such as diodes, transistors, and operational amplifiers.

Each chapter ends with problem sets and “lab projects” that have been proven to work well for instruction. Questions on simple aspects of the lab that students should know are also included, such as regarding powering components and diagnosing signals with the oscilloscope.

The new edition of this textbook adds more worked examples, exercises, and end-of-chapter problems, and provides more “troubleshooting tips” to help students find out why a particular circuit does not work. In addition, it features Arduino boards which have become widespread in the community as inexpensive, easy-to-use electronics platforms.

Electronics with Discrete Components includes information on: - Filters and the frequency domain, covering RC, high- and low-pass, and cascading filters, as well as important considerations for filter design - Connecting digital to analog and to the world through TTL gates, CMOS gates, and other forms of interfacing - Charge and potential, capacitors, electrical current, resistors, magnetic devices, power, circuits, and abstractions and symbol jargon in the field - Number systems, codes, signed numbers, binary functions, logic families, and IC wirings

The Second Edition of Electronics with Discrete Components is an ideal textbook resource for a one-semester course on electronics for second-year physics students, as well as students from other disciplines or levels who understand elementary notions of circuits and complex numbers.

Table of Contents

1 The Basics

1.1 Foreword: Welcome to Electronics!

1.2 Charge and Potential

1.3 Capacitors

1.4 Electrical Current

1.5 Resistors

1.6 Magnetic Devices

1.7 Power

1.8 Circuits

1.9 Abstractions and Symbol Jargon

1.10 Problems

1.11 Lab Projects

 

PART I: DIGITAL

2 Introduction to Digital Electronics

2.1 Number Systems

2.2 Codes

2.3 Signed Numbers

2.4 Binary Functions

2.5 Logic Families

2.6 IC Wirings

2.7 Problems

2.8 Lab Projects

 

3 Combinational Logic

3.1 Boolean Algebra

3.2 Theorems

3.3 NAND-Gate Implementation

3.4 Representation of Boolean Functions

3.5 Simplification of Functions

3.6 Karnaugh Maps

3.7 More Than Four Variables

3.8 Wrap-Up

3.9 Wiring Digest: Open Collector/Drain Outputs

3.10 Problems

3.11 Lab Projects

 

4 Advanced Combinational Devices

4.1 Pragmatic Designing

4.2 Adders

4.3 Decoders

4.4 Demultiplexers

4.5 Encoders

4.6 Multiplexers

4.7 Problems

4.8 Lab Projects

 

5 Sequential Logic

5.1 Definitions

5.2 Flip-Flops

5.3 D Flip-Flop

5.4 Edge-Trigger

5.5 JK and T Flip-Flops

5.6 Applications of Flip-Flops

5.7 Shift Registers

5.8 Multivibrators

5.9 Memory

5.10 Epilogue to Digital: Digital I/O

5.11 Problems

5.12 Lab Projects

 

PART II: ANALOG

6 AC Signals

6.1 AC Circuits

6.2 Equivalent Circuits

6.3 Circuit Loading

6.4 Problems

6.5 Lab Projects

 

7 Filters and the Frequency Domain

7.1 RC Filters

7.2 High-Pass Filters

7.3 Low-Pass Filter

7.4 Cascading Filters

7.5 Important Considerations for Filter Design

7.6 Transformer

7.7 Resonant Circuits and Band-Pass Filters

7.8 Higher-Order Filters

7.9 Fourier Series

7.10 Problems

7.11 Lab Projects

 

8 Diodes

8.1 Physics of Semiconductors

8.2 Diodes

8.3 Designing Diode Circuits

8.3.1 Load Line Method

8.3.2 “Quick and Dirty’’ Circuit Design for Diodes

8.4 Diode Fauna

8.5 Diode Applications

8.6 Problems

8.7 Lab Projects

 

9 Transistors

9.1 The Bipolar-Junction Transistor

9.2 Field-Effect Transistors

9.3 Problems

9.4 Lab Projects

 

10 Operational Amplifiers

10.1 Negative Feedback

10.2 Closed-Loop Circuits

10.3 Open-Loop Circuits

10.4 Real Op-Amps

10.5 Problems

10.6 Lab Projects

 

11 Connecting Digital to Analog and to the World

11.1 TTL Gates

11.2 CMOS Gates

11.3 Interfacing

11.4 Interfacing the World

11.5 Problems

11.6 Lab Projects

 

Appendix A: Logic Board

 

Appendix B: If the Circuit Does Not Work

B.1 Design

B.2 The Obvious

B.3 Placement

B.4 Pins

B.5 Breadboards

B.6 Abusive Power

B.7 Stuck

B.8 Done!

 

Appendix C Curve Tracer

C.1 I-V Curves for Diodes

C.2 I-V Curves for Transistors

Index

Authors

Enrique J. Galvez