Experimental Electronics for Students
Published on 13. October 2011
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Paperback/Softback
XIV, 228 pages
978-94-009-5769-5 (ISBN)
Description
Electronics is essentially an experimental subject and enables a wealth of experimental work to be undertaken at relatively low cost. In any modestly equipped electrical engineering or physics laboratory. it is possible to plan interesting experiments to study active and passive com ponents, basic circuit functions, modular encapsulations and monolithic integrated circuits. The work may range from the formal investigation of a device new to the student to the design and construction of quite advanced, modern measurement and control systems. There are few books which guide experimental work in electronics. This text aims to rectify this by giving detailed descriptions of a series of experiments all of which have been thoroughly tested by students in physics, electronics, electrical engineering and instrumentation at The Polytechnic of Central London. Moreover, several of these experiments would seem to be appropriate for the current development of interest in courses in electronics in schools because several of them have been undertaken with considerable success by first-year sixth-form students who have come to Central London for special courses. They would also assist an introductory course in electronics for students from other disciplines and have been tried out in this way at The Polytechnic.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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XIV, 228 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
376 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-009-5769-5 (9789400957695)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-009-5767-1
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Experimental Electronics for Students
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12/1979
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Content
1 Introductory General Notes.- 1.1 Soldering components to interconnections when utilizing strip board.- 1.2 Resistor colour code.- 1.3 Symbols used in circuit diagrams.- 1.4 Symbols for quantities.- 1.5 Abbreviations.- 1.6 Notes on some aspects of electrical measuring instruments.- 2 Semiconductor Diodes: Characteristics; Use in D.C. Power Supplies.- 2.1 Semiconductor diodes.- 2.2 Zener diodes.- 2.3 D.C. power supplies: an introduction.- 3 Bipolar Junction Transistors: Characteristics and Simple Associated Circuits.- 3.1 Bipolar junction transistors.- 3.2 Characteristics of an n-p-n transistor in common-base (CB) connection.- 3.3 Characteristics of an n-p-n bipolar transistor in common-emitter (CE) connection.- 3.4 A bipolar transistor tester.- 3.5 Further investigation.- 3.6 Voltage stabilizing circuits: general information; the use of bipolar transistors.- 3.7 Constant current sources: introduction.- 3.8 Amplifiers: use of bipolar transistors.- 3.9 Sinusoidal waveform generators.- 3.10 Multivibrators.- 3.11 The Schmitt trigger circuit.- 3.12 Sweep generator: utilizing the bootstrap principle.- 3.13 An optically-coupled isolator.- 3.14 A typical application of an optically-coupled isolator.- 4 Field Effect Transistors: Characteristics and Simple Associated Circuits.- 4.1 Field-effect transistors (FETs or fets).- 4.2 A simple common-source fet amplifier.- 4.3 Sinusoidal waveform generators based on field-effect transistors.- 4.4 Multivibrators utilizing fets.- 5 Unijunction Transistors; Silicon Controlled Rectifiers: Characteristics and Applications.- 5.1 Unijunction transistors (UJTs or ujts).- 5.2 Relaxation oscillators.- 5.3 A staircase generator or frequency divider based on a unijunction transistor.- 5.4 Programmable unijunction transistors (PUTs or puts).- 5.5 Arelaxation oscillator based on a put.- 5.6 Silicon controlled rectifiers (SCRs or scrs).- 5.7 Phase control by means of silicon controlled rectifiers.- 5.8 Phase control by means of an scr fired by pulses from a ujt circuit.- 5.9 Phase control by means of a put.- 5.10 A bistable circuit based on the use of silicon controlled rectifiers.- 6 More Complex Amplifiers and some Applications.- 6.1 Differential or difference amplifiers.- 6.2 Operational amplifiers.- 6.3 Applications of operational amplifiers.- 6.4 Voltage-to-frequency converters which make use of an operational amplifier.- 6.5 A high-quality pre-amplifier for audio frequency signals.- 7 Logic Gates.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 The basic TTL 2-input NAND gate.- 7.3 Multivibrator circuits based on NAND gates of the TTL type.- 7.4 Further pulse generator circuits based on NAND gates.- 7.5 The OR and the exclusive-OR functions.- 7.6 Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) logic gates.- 7.7 Multivibrator circuits based on NAND gates of the CMOS type.- 8 Some integrated Circuits.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 A monolithic integrated circuit voltage stabilizer.- 8.3 Voltage-to-frequency converters.- 8.4 Monolithic integrated circuit waveform generators.- 8.5 Waveform generators of the multivibrator type based on NAND gates.- 8.6 A decade counter and a cold-cathode number display tube.