Basic Electronics for Scientists and Engineers

Dennis L. Eggleston is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Occidental College, Los Angeles. During his thirty-five years at the College he taught undergraduate courses and labs at all levels, including the course on which this textbook is based. He also established an active research program in plasma physics and, in collaboration with his undergraduate assistants, designed and constructed three plasma devices which formed the basis for the research program.

'If mathematics is the language of theoretical physics, then electronics is surely the toolbox of experimental physics. Dennis Eggleston's book is an excellent user's guide for the toolbox. Now in its second edition, this book continues to provide support for those learning about electronics. It preserves the emphasis on analysing circuits using physical understanding and mathematical models, rather than simulations with idealized components, and this is backed up with downloadable laboratory exercises. An expanded list of problems at the end of every chapter further help with the learning process.' David Hanna, McGill University

• Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; 1. Sources, resistors, and circuit laws; 2. AC circuits; 3 Band theory and diode circuits; 4. Bipolar junction transistors; 5 Field-effect transistors; 6. Operational amplifiers; 7. Oscillators; 8. Digital circuits and devices; Appendix A. Selected answers to exercises; Appendix B. Linearity and Its Consequences; Appendix C. Tellegen's Theorem; Appendix D. Solving a set of linear algebraic equations; Appendix E. Inductively coupled circuits; Appendix F. Model Equations for Bipolar Junction Transistors; Appendix G. Transistor Hybrid Parameters; Appendix H. Minterms, maxterms, and canonical form; Appendix I. Binary subtraction using two's complements; Bibliography; Index.