Electronics with Discrete Components

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 designConnecting digital to analog and to the world through TTL gates, CMOS gates, and other forms of interfacingCharge and potential, capacitors, electrical current, resistors, magnetic devices, power, circuits, and abstractions and symbol jargon in the fieldNumber 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.