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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Establishing Reasonable Goals | |
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| What Is Unreasonable? | |
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| What Is Reasonable? | |
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| Obtaining the Informational Tools | |
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| Textbooks | |
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| Data Books | |
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| Periodicals | |
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| Setting up a Lab | |
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| The Workbench | |
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| Hand Tools | |
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| Miscellaneous Supplies | |
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| Electrical Lab Power | |
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| Basic Test Equipment | |
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| Starting a Parts and Materials Inventory | |
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| Salvaging | |
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| What to Salvage | |
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| Salvaging Electronic Components | |
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| Buying from Surplus Dealers | |
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| Basic Electrical Concepts | |
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| Electronic Components | |
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| Resistors | |
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| Potentiometers, Rheostats, and Resistive Devices | |
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| Capacitors | |
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| Diodes | |
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| Transistors | |
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| Integrated Circuits | |
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| A Final Note on Parts Identification | |
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| Characteristics of Electricity | |
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| Voltage | |
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| Current | |
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| Resistance | |
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| Alternating Current (AC) and Direct Current (DC) | |
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| Conductance | |
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| Power | |
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| Laws of Electricity | |
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| Ohm's law | |
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| Parellel-Circuit Analysis | |
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| Series-Circuit Analysis | |
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| Series-Parallel Circuits | |
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| Power | |
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| Common Electronics Prefixes | |
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| Using Ohm's Law in Real-World Circumstances | |
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| The Transformer and AC Power | |
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| AC Waveshopes | |
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| AC Frequency | |
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| AC Amplitude | |
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| AC Calculations | |
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| Inductance | |
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| DC Resistance | |
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| Transformers | |
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| Soldering | |
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| Soldering Overview | |
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| Soldering for the First Time | |
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| Soldering Procedure | |
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| Desoldering Procedure | |
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| Assembling and Testing the First Section of a Lab Power Supply | |
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| Emphasis on Safety throughout This Book | |
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| Materials Needed for Completion of This Section | |
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| Mounting the Hardware | |
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| Wiring and Testing Procedure | |
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| Testing the First Section of the Lab Power Supply | |
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| Rectification | |
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| Introduction to Solid-State Devices | |
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| Diode Principles | |
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| Referencing | |
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| Assembly and Testing of Second Section of a Lab Power Supply | |
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| Testing Bridge Rectifier Modules | |
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| Capacitance | |
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| Capacitor Types and Construction | |
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| Basic Capacitor Principles | |
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| Filter Capacitors | |
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| Designing Raw DC Power Supples | |
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| Assembly and Testing of Third Section of a Lab Power Supply | |
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| Testing the Power Supply | |
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| Food for Thought | |
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| Transistors | |
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| Preliminary Definitions | |
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| Introduction to Transistors | |
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| Transistor Principles | |
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| Common Transistor Configurations | |
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| Adding Some New Concepts | |
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| The Common-Emitter Configuration | |
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| The Common-Collector Configuration | |
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| The Common-Base Configuration | |
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| Transistor Amplifier Comparisons | |
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| Impedance Matching | |
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| Transistor Workshop | |
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| Assembly and Testing of Last Section of a Lab Power Supply | |
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| Assembling the Circuit Board | |
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| Mounting Q1 and Q2 | |
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| Circuit Description | |
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| Testing the Power Supply | |
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| In Case of Difficulty | |
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| Checking Transistors with a DVM | |
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| Special-Purpose Diodes and Optoelectronic Devices | |
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| Zener Diodes | |
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| Designing Simple Zener-Regulated Power Supplies | |
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| Varactor Diodes | |
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| Schottky Diodes | |
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| Tunnel Diodes | |
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| Diacs | |
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| Fact-Recovery Diodes | |
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| Noise and Transient Suppression Diodes | |
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| A Basic Course in Quantum Physics | |
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| Light-Emitting Diodes | |
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| Optoisolators, Optocouplers, and Photoeyes | |
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| Photodiodes, Phototransistors, and Photoresistive Cells | |
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| Laser Diodes | |
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| Liquid-Crystal Displays | |
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| Charge-Coupled Devices | |
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| Circuit Potpourri! | |
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| Preliminary Steps to Project Building | |
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| Flashing Lights, Anyone? | |
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| Three Lights Are Better than Two! | |
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| A Mouse in the House | |
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| A Sound Improvement | |
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| A Delay Is Sometimes Beneficial | |
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| A Long-running Series | |
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| Keep It Steady | |
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| Double Your Pleasure | |
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| Show the Blow | |
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| Linear Electronic Circuits | |
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| Transistor Biasing and Load Considerations | |
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| Amplifier Classes | |
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| Additional Amplifier Classification | |
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| Audio Amplifier Output Configurations | |
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| Audio Amplifier Definitions | |
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| Power Amplifier Operational Basics | |
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| Building High-Quality Audio Systems | |
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| Constructing the 12-watt RMS Amplifier of Fig. 8-8 | |
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| Making Printed Circuit Boards by Hand | |
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| Making Printed Circuit Boards by the Photographic Method | |
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| Other Methods of Fabricating PC Boards | |
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| CAD Methods of PC Board Development | |
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| A Professional-Quality Audio Power Amplifier | |
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| Preconstruction and Preliminary Design | |
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| Constructing the Professional-Quality Audio Power Amplifier | |
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| Testing, Setup, and Applications of the Professional-Quality Audio Power Amplifier | |
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| Speaker Protection Circuit | |
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| Power Control | |
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| Silicon controlled Rectifiers (SCRs) | |
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| The Triac | |
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| Unijunction Transistors, Diacs, and Neon Tubes | |
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| Building a Soldering Iron Controller | |
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| Circuit Potpourri | |
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| Watts an Easier Way? | |
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| Isolation Might Be Good for the Soul | |
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| Curiosity Catcher | |
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| See Ya Later, Oscillator | |
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| Forbidden Planet Revisited | |
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| Field-Effect Transistors | |
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| FET Operational Principles | |
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| FET Parameters | |
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| FET Biasing Considerations | |
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| Static Electricity: An Unseen Danger | |
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| Building a High-Quality MOSFET Audio Amplifier | |
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| Circuit Potpourri | |
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| Sounds Like Fun | |
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| Emergency Automobile Flasher | |
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| Home-Made AC | |
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| Batteries | |
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| Battery Types | |
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| Battery Ratings | |
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| Battery Care | |
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| A Few Words of Caution | |
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| Recharging Batteries | |
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| Building a General-Purpose Battery Charger | |
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| Integrated Circuits | |
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| Operational Amplifiers | |
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| IC or Hybrid Audio Amplifiers | |
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| IC Voltage Regulators | |
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| Special-Purpose ICs | |
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| Improvement of Lab-Quality Power Supply | |
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| Building a Quad Power Supply | |
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| Circuit Potpourri | |
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| Noise Hangs in the Balance | |
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| Hum Reducer | |
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| Let the Band Pass | |
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| High-Versatility Filters | |
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| How Was Your Trip? | |
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| Watt an Amplifier | |
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| Control Your Tonel | |
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| Digital Electronics | |
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| Logic Gates | |
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| Combining Logic Gates | |
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| Multivibrators | |
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| Digital Clocks | |
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| Shift Registers | |
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| Digital Memory Devices | |
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| Summary | |
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| Circuit Potpourri | |
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| How Is Your Pulse? | |
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| Improved Digital Pulser | |
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| Digital Logic Probe | |
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| Bounceless Is Better | |
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| High-Stability Crystal Timebase | |
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| Pulse-Width Modulation Motor Control | |
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| Computers | |
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| How a Computer Works | |
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| Hardware, Software, and Firmware | |
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| Memory and Data Storage | |
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| Input/output Devices | |
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| Programming Computers | |
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| Computer Processing of Analog Signals | |
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| Computers as Electronic Tools | |
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| More about Inductors and Capacitors | |
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| Inductive Reactance | |
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| Capacitive Reactance | |
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| Capacitive and Inductive Comparisons | |
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| Combining Inductors and Capacitors | |
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| Reflected Impedance | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Passive Filters | |
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| Low-Pass Filters | |
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| High-Pass Filters | |
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| Bandpass Filters | |
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| Band-Reject Filters | |
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| Twin-T Filters | |
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| The Q Factor | |
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| Circuit Potpourri | |
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| Proportional, Integral, and Differential Action | |
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| Square Waves Galore | |
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| Basic Tone Generator | |
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| Where's the Fire? | |
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| Building a Lab Function Generator | |
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| Building a Percussion Synthesizer | |
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| Radio and Television | |
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| Modulation | |
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| Transmission and Reception of RF Signals | |
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| Radio Receivers | |
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| AM and FM Detectors | |
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| Television | |
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| Symbols and Equations | |
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| Sources for Electronic Materials | |
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| Printed Circuit Boards | |
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| Index | |