Synopses & Reviews
Grobs Basic Electronics, Tenth Edition, is written for the beginning student pursuing a technical degree in Electronics Technology. In covering the fundamentals of electricity and electronics, this text focuses on essential topics for the technician, and the all-important development of testing and troubleshooting skills.
This highly practical approach combines clear, carefully-laid-out explanations of key topics with good, worked-out examples and problems to solve. Review problems that follow each section reinforce the material just completed, making this a very student-friendly text. It is a thoroughly accessible introduction to basic DC and AC circuits and electronic devices.
This tenth edition of this longtime best-selling text has been refined, updated and made more student friendly. The focus on absolutely essential knowledge for technicians, and focus on real-world applications of these basic concepts makes it ideal for todays technology students.
Table of Contents
1 Electricity 2 Resistors 3 Ohm's Law 4 Series Circuits 5 Parallel Circuits 6 Series-Parallel Circuits 7 Voltage Dividers and Current Dividers 8 Direct-Current Meters 9 Kirchhoffs Laws 10 Network Theorems 11 Conductors and Insulators 12 Batteries 13 Magnetism 14 Electromagnetism 15 Alternating Voltage and Current 16 Capacitance 17 Capacitive Reactance 18 Capacitive Circuits 19 Inductance 20 Inductive Reactance 21 Inductive Circuits 22 RC and L/R Time Constants 23 Alternating Current Circuits 24 Complex Numbers for AC Circuits 25 Resonance 26 Filters 27 Semiconductor Diodes: Theory and Applications 28 Bipolar Junction Transistors 29 Transistor Amplifiers 30 Field Effect Transistors 31 Power Amplifiers 32 Thyristors 33 Operational Amplifiers