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| Meet the author | |
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| Only got a minute? | |
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| Only got five minutes? | |
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| Electronics today and yesterday | |
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| The electronic age | |
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| Consumer electronics | |
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| Communications electronics | |
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| Computer electronics | |
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| Control electronics | |
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| Medical electronics | |
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| Looking back | |
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| The discovery of cathode rays | |
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| The invention of the thermionic value | |
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| The beginnings of radio and television | |
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| Radar and the Second World War | |
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| The invention of the transistor | |
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| Silicon chips make an impact | |
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| The atomic roots of electronics | |
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| Electrons in atoms | |
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| Atomic structure | |
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| Conductors, insulators and semiconductors | |
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| Silicon atoms | |
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| n-type and p-type semiconductors | |
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| Simple circuits and switches | |
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| Making electrons move | |
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| Series and parallel circuits | |
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| Resistance and Ohm's law | |
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| Large and small numbers | |
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| Types of switch | |
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| Simple digital circuits | |
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| Using switches | |
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| Signals and systems | |
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| Direct current and alternating current | |
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| The multimeter | |
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| The oscilloscope | |
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| Black boxes | |
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| Electronic systems | |
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| Analogue and digital systems | |
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| Voltage dividers and resistors | |
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| The potential divider | |
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| Resistors in series and parallel | |
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| Fixed-value and variable resistors | |
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| Values and coding of resistors | |
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| Power ratings of resistors | |
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| Special types of resistor | |
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| The Wheatstone bridge | |
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| The strain gauge | |
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| Capacitors, timers and oscillators | |
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| What timers and oscillators do | |
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| The way a capacitor works | |
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| Units of capacitance | |
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| Types of capacitor | |
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| Capacitors in parallel and series | |
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| Charging and discharging capacitors | |
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| The 555 timer monostable | |
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| The 555 timer astable | |
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| Diodes and rectification | |
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| What diodes do | |
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| The p-n junction | |
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| Using diodes as rectifiers | |
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| Zener diodes as voltage regulators | |
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| The light-emitting diode (LED) | |
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| Power control with thyristors and triacs | |
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| Amplifiers and transistors | |
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| What amplifiers do | |
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| Audio amplifiers | |
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| The bandwidth of an amplifier | |
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| The decibel | |
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| Types of transistor | |
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| How bipolar transistors work | |
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| How field-effect transistors work | |
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| Transistors as electronic switches | |
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| Logic gates and Boolean algebra | |
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| What logic gates do | |
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| Symbols and truth tables of logic gates | |
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| Introducing Boolean algebra | |
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| The universal NAND gate | |
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| Logic families | |
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| Decision-making logic circuits | |
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| Flip-flops and counters | |
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| What flip-flops do | |
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| Making binary counters from flip-flops | |
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| Frequency dividers and counters | |
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| Binary adders | |
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| Displays, encoders and decoders | |
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| Analogue and digital displays | |
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| The seven-segment LED display | |
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| The liquid crystal display (LCD) | |
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| Decoders and encoders | |
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| Multiplexing seven-segment displays | |
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| Memories and silicon chips | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Random-access memory (RAM) | |
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| Static and dynamic RAM | |
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| Read-only memory (ROM) | |
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| Flash memory | |
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| Gallium arsenide | |
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| Moore's law | |
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| Making a silicon chip | |
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| Packaging silicon chips | |
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| Op amps and control systems | |
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| The basic features of control systems | |
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| The design of a simple thermostat | |
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| The design of a simple servosystem | |
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| The basic properties of op amps | |
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| Using op amps as comparators | |
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| The role of the feedback resistor | |
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| The stepper motor | |
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| Digital-to-analogue converters | |
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| Peripheral interface controllers (PIC) | |
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| Op amps and instrumentation systems | |
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| Electronics and measurement | |
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| Thermocouples and Geiger tubes | |
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| Designing voltage amplifiers with op amps | |
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| Analogue-to-digital converters | |
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| Telecommunications systems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The electromagnetic spectrum | |
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| Uses of radio waves | |
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| AM and FM modulation | |
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| Bandwidth | |
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| Radio transmitters and receivers | |
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| Digital radio and TV | |
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| Plasma and LCD TV screens | |
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| The CCD camera | |
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| Fibre optics communications | |
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| Pulse code modulation (PCM) | |
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| Projects | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Project 1: Circuit Tester | |
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| Project 2: Dark/Light Switch | |
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| Project 3: Games Timer | |
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| Project 4: Rain Check | |
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| Project 5: Frost Alert | |
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| Project 6: Simple Die | |
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| Project 7: Simple AM Radio | |
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| Answers to the Test Yourself questions | |
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| Taking it further | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |