Overview
Main description
Best-selling Demystified author and electronics expert Stan Gibilisco has penned the perfect introductory book for consumers, hobbyists, and students alike. Coverage includes essential topics such as current and power supplies, wireless, digital principles, measurement and monitoring, transducers and sensors, location and navigation, and more.
Table of contents
PART ONE: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTSChapter 1. Direct CurrentChapter 2. Alternating CurrentChapter 3. ImpedanceChapter 4. Power SuppliesTest: Part OnePART TWO: WIRED ELECTRONICSChapter 5. Semiconductor DiodesChapter 6. Transistors and Integrated CircuitsChapter 7. Signal AmplifiersChapter 8: Signal OscillatorsTest: Part TwoPART THREE: WIRELESS ELECTRONICSChapter 9. Radio-Frequency TransmittersChapter 10. Radio-Frequency ReceiversChapter 11. TelecommunicationsChapter 12: AntennasTest: Part ThreeFinal ExamAPPENDIX 1: ANSWERS TO QUIZ, TEST, AND EXAM QUESTIONSAPPENDIX 2: SYMBOLS USED IN SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMSSUGGESTED ADDITIONAL REFERENCESINDEXABOUT THE AUTHOR
Author comments
Stan Gibilisco is one of McGraw-Hill's most prolific and popular authors. His clear, reader-friendly writing style makes his electronics books accessible to a wide audience, and his background in mathematics and research makes him an ideal editor for tutorials and professional handbooks. He is the author of The TAB Encyclopedia of Electronics for Technicians and Hobbyists; Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics; and The Illustrated Dictionary of Electronics. Booklist named his McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Personal Computing a "Best Reference of 1996."
Back cover copy
SHOCK YOURSELF BY LEARNING ELECTRONICS
Now anyone with an interest in electronics can master itby reading this book. In Electronics Demystified, best-selling science and math writer Stan Gibilisco provides an effective and painless way to understand the electronics that power so much of modern life.
With Electronics Demystified, you master the subject one simple step at a time—at your own speed. This unique self-teaching guide offers problems at the end of each chapter and section to pinpoint weaknesses, and a 70-question final exam to reinforce the entire book.
If you want to build or refresh your understanding of electronics, here's a fast and entertaining self-teaching course that's completely current. Get ready to—
- Master electronics essentials that can help you as an employee, a hobbyist, or merely as a consumer
- Discover the electrifying truth about power transmission and power supplies
- Uncover the purpose of the diodes, transistors, amplifiers, and oscillators that make your appliances work
- Really "get" wireless
- Take a "final exam" and grade it yourself!
A fast, effective, and fun way to learn electronics, Electronics Demystified is the perfect shortcut to a deeper understanding of many of today's most important technologies.
