Teach yourself electricity and electronics
Book - 2016
"This fully updated guide offers practical, easy-to-follow instruction on electricity and electronics. Written by a pair of experienced instructors, Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, Sixth Edition, features plain language explanations and step-by-step lessons that make it easy to understand the material quickly. Throughout, detailed illustrations, practical examples, and self-tests reinforce key concepts. Inside, you'll find all-new coverage of switching power supplies, class-D amplifiers, lithium-polymer batteries, microcontrollers--even the Arduino electronics platform."--Page [4] of cover.
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- Published
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New York :
McGraw-Hill Education
©2016.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- Sixth edition
- Physical Description
- xvii, 745 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 711-712) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781259585531
- Part 1. Direct current. Background physics
- Electrical units
- Measuring devices
- Direct-current circuit basics
- Direct-current circuit analysis
- Resistors
- Cells and batteries
- Magnetism
- Part 2. Alternating current. Alternating-current basics
- Inductance
- Capacitance
- Phase
- Inductive reactance
- Capacitive reactance
- Impedance and admittance
- Alternating-current circuit analysis
- Alternating current power and resonance
- Transformers and impedance matching
- Part 3. Basic electronics. Introduction to semiconductors
- Diode applications
- Bipolar transistors
- Field-effect transistors
- Integrated circuits
- Electron tubes
- Power supplies
- Amplifiers and oscillators
- Wireless transmitters and receivers
- Digital basics
- Part 4. Specialized devices and systems. Microcontrollers
- Arduino
- Transducers, sensors, location, and navigation
- Acoustics and audio
- Lasers
- Advanced communications systems
- Antennas for RF communications.