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 features in the following series: Macmillan, Macmillan Master .

There are 416 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 1996 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .

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.