Mastering Electronics is a complete, self-contained course for individual study or classroom use, which covers the subject from first principles in an accessible style. The fourth edition has been brought fully up-to-date with current new technology. It has been thoroughly re-organised to fit in with today's modular teaching, and to make it even easier to follow as a self-study book. The book contains new or completely re-written sections on Computer Simulation of Circuits and Systems, Mobile Telephone Technology, Modern Battery Technology and Computers. Much of the text has been re-written to improve the clarity of the explanations still further. An even wider range of illustrations and an extended glossary of terms are also included.

 

This book is part of a book series called Macmillan Master .

This book is aimed at the following children: secondary school , university .

There are 416 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by Macmillan Education UK .

John Watson was Managing Director of the UK operation of the academic publisher Springer-Verlag for fifteen years. Prior to that he was Editorial Director at McGraw-Hill, and before that, Publisher at Macmillan. The author of several textbooks on electronics and electrical engineering - and one on car maintenance - he is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and has co-written a book on practical astronomy with Sir Patrick Moore.

This book has the following chapters:

Introduction. - Safety Electric Circuits. - Passive Components. - Measuring Instruments and Circuit Construction. - Thermionic Devices Semiconductors. - The pn Junction. - Diode Bipolar Transistors. - Field-effect Transistors. - Amplifiers Oscillators Mains and Portable Power. - Operational Amplifiers. - Computer Simulation. - Audio Amplifiers. - Tape Recorders. - Radio Television. - Video Recording. - Optoelectronics. - Telecommunications. - Semiconductor and Electromagnetic Devices. - Digital Electronics. - Logic Families. - Digital Systems: Timers and Pulse Circuits. - Digital Systems: Arithmetic and Memory Circuits. - Microprocessors and Microcomputers. - Compact Disk. - Personal Computers. - Electronics and the Future.