Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition - Softcover

Scherz, Paul; Monk, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1259587541 ISBN 13: 9781259587542

Publisher: McGraw Hill TAB, 2016

Synopsis

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A Fully-Updated, No-Nonsense Guide to Electronics

Advance your electronics knowledge and gain the skills necessary to develop and construct your own functioning gadgets. Written by a pair of experienced engineers and dedicated hobbyists, Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition, lays out the essentials and provides step-by-step instructions, schematics, and illustrations. Discover how to select the right components, design and build circuits, use microcontrollers and ICs, work with the latest software tools, and test and tweak your creations. This easy-to-follow book features new instruction on programmable logic, semiconductors, operational amplifiers, voltage regulators, power supplies, digital electronics, and more.
 
Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition, covers:

• Resistors, capacitors, inductors, and transformers
• Diodes, transistors, and integrated circuits
• Optoelectronics, solar cells, and phototransistors
• Sensors, GPS modules, and touch screens
• Op amps, regulators, and power supplies
• Digital electronics, LCD displays, and logic gates
• Microcontrollers and prototyping platforms
• Combinational and sequential programmable logic
• DC motors, RC servos, and stepper motors
• Microphones, audio amps, and speakers
• Modular electronics and prototypes
  

About this title

About the Author

Paul Scherz is a physicist/mechanical engineer who received his B.S. in physics from the University of Wisconsin. His area of interest in physics currently focuses on elementary particle interactions, or high energy physics, and he is working on a new theory on the photon problems with Nikolus Kauer (Ph.D. in high energy physics, Munich, Germany). Paul is an inventor/hobbyist in electronics, an area he grew to appreciate through his experience at the University’s Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics and the Department of Plasma Physics.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill TAB
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1259587541
• ISBN 13: 9781259587542
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 1056