Application description

Features:

• Clear and concise explanations
• Difficult concepts are explained in simple terms
• Illustrated with graphs and diagrams
• Search for the words or phrases
• Access the guide anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway.
• Use your down time to prepare for an exam.
• Always have the guide available for a quick reference.
• Automatic synchronization between the Q and the desktop PC. You could read half of the book on the Q, then finish reading on the desktop. Annotations and drawings are also synchronized.
• Includes tables of symbols, electronic components identification, and many more

Table of Contents:

i. Introduction: Foreword | Symbols used in Electronics

ii. Signal Transforms: Fourier analysis | Fourier series | Fourier transform | Discrete Fourier transform | A derivation of the discrete Fourier transform | Discrete-time Fourier transform | Gibbs phenomenon | Laplace transform | Two-sided Laplace transform | Z-transform | Transfer function

I. Electronic components: Identification | Passive components | Active solid-state components: Diodes | Transistors | Power Supplies | Active thermionic components | Display devices | Electromechanical sensors and actuators | Thermoelectric devices | Photoelectric devices | Antennas | Interconnecting electronic components

II. Analog Circuits: Circuit Analysis | Analysis of Resistive Circuits | AC Circuits | Benefits and Design | Amplifiers | Switching amplifiers | Oscillators | Modulation Methods | Filter Design

III. Digital Circuits: Integrated Circuit | Elements of Digital Circuits | Computer Architecture | Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog Converters

I. Electronic Components

Passive components: Fuse | Capacitors | Inductors | Magnetic amplifier | Crystal Oscillator | Polyswitch | Resistors | Varistor | Transformer | Switch

Active solid-state components: Semiconductor devices | Semiconductor materials | Diodes | Transistors | DIAC - Diode for Alternating Current | TRIAC - TRIode for Alternating Current | Power Supplies | Frequency changer

Active thermionic components: Vacuum tube | Cathode ray tube | Klystron | Magnetron

Display devices: Cathode ray tube | Liquid crystal display | Light-emitting diode | Nixie tube

Electromechanical sensors and actuators: Microphone | Loudspeaker | Strain gauge | Switch

Thermoelectric devices: Thermoelectric effect | Thermistor | Thermocouple | Thermopile | Peltier cooler

Photoelectric devices: Photomultiplier tube | Light-dependent resistor | Photodiode | Photovoltaic cell (solar cell)

Antennas | Radio antenna | Elemental dipole | Biconical | Yagi | Log-periodic antenna | Phased array | Magnetic dipole (loop) | Parabolic dish | Feedhorn | Waveguide

Interconnecting electronic components: Electrical connectors, plugs and sockets | Printed circuit boards | Point-to-point construction | Wire-wrap | Breadboard

II. Analog Circuits

Circuit Analysis: Introduction | Symbols used in Electronics | Kirchhoff's current law | Ohm's Law | Circuit diagram | Charge and Coulomb's Law | Coulomb's Law | Cell | DC Voltage and Current | Nodal Analysis | Mesh Analysis | Thevenin and Norton Equivalents | Norton's Theorem | Thévenin's Theorem | Superposition | DC Circuit Analysis | Noise in electronic circuits | Diagnostic Equipment | SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis)

Analysis of Resistive Circuits: Series and parallel circuits | Wheatstone bridge | Y-Delta transform | Voltage divider | Current divider | Combining impedances

AC Circuits: Alternating current | AC Voltage and Current | Phasors | Impedance | RC Circuits | RCL Circuits: RCL frequency domain | RCL time domain simple | RCL time domain Example

Benefits and Design: Benefits | Circuit design

Amplifiers: Multi-stage transistor amplifiers | Electronic amplifier | Operational amplifiers | Example | Applications: Comparator | Instrumentation amplifier | Schmitt trigger | Multivibrator | Inductance gyrator | Negative impedance converter | Precision rectifier | Analog multipliers

Switching amplifier: Pulse-width modulation (PWM) | Pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) | Pulse-code modulation (PCM) | Pulse-density modulation (PDM) | Pulse-position modulation

Oscillators: Hartley | Armstrong | Clapp | Colpitts | Pierce | Phase-shift | Wien bridge | RC | LC

Modulation Methods:
Analog modulation methods:
Angular modulation: Phase modulation (PM) | Frequency modulation (FM)
Amplitude modulation (AM): Double-sideband suppressed-carrier transmission (DSB-SC) | Single-sideband modulation (SSB, or SSB-AM) | Vestigial-sideband modulation (VSB, or VSB-AM) | Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)
Digital modulation methods: Phase-shift keying (PSK) | Frequency-shift keying (FSK) | Amplitude-shift keying (ASK) | Polar modulation | Continuous phase modulation (CPM) | Minimum-shift keying (MSK)
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation
Trellis coded modulation (TCM)
Pulse modulation methods: Direct-sequence spread spectrum | Frequency-hopping spread spectrum

Filter design: Electronic Filter | Infinite impulse response | Finite impulse response
Linear Filters: Butterworth | Chebyshev | Elliptic (Cauer) | Bessel | Gaussian
Active Filters: Low-pass | Raised-cosine | High-pass | Band-pass | Band-stop | Biquad | All-pass | Sallen and Key, and VCVS | State variable, and biquadratic
Other: Atomic line filter | Matched filter | Digital Filter | Digital biquad filter

III. Digital Circuits

Integrated Circuit: Boolean Algebra | Microprocessor | Microcontroller | RISC | Digital Signal Processor | Graphics Processing Unit | System-on-a-chip | Very-large-scale integration | TTL | CMOS

Elements of Digital Circuits: Latches and Flip Flops | Counters | Adders | Multiplexers

Computer Architecture: RAM and ROM | Registers | ALU | Microprocessor Design/ALU

Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog Converters: Analog-to-digital converter | Digital to Analog Converter

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