Mastering Electronics

John Watson was Managing Director of the UK operation of the academic publisher Springer-Verlag for fifteen years. Prior to that he was Editorial Director at McGraw-Hill, and before that, Publisher at Macmillan. The author of several textbooks on electronics and electrical engineering - and one on car maintenance - he is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and has co-written a book on practical astronomy with Sir Patrick Moore.

Introduction.- Safety Electric Circuits.- Passive Components.- Measuring Instruments and Circuit Construction.- Thermionic Devices Semiconductors.- The pn Junction.- Diode Bipolar Transistors.- Field-effect Transistors.- Amplifiers Oscillators Mains and Portable Power.- Operational Amplifiers.- Computer Simulation.- Audio Amplifiers.- Tape Recorders.- Radio Television.- Video Recording.- Optoelectronics.- Telecommunications.- Semiconductor and Electromagnetic Devices.- Digital Electronics.- Logic Families.- Digital Systems: Timers and Pulse Circuits.- Digital Systems: Arithmetic and Memory Circuits.- Microprocessors and Microcomputers.- Compact Disk.- Personal Computers.- Electronics and the Future.