Contemporary Electronics: Fundamentals, Devices, Circuits, and Systems

Chapter 1 Survey of Electronics

Chapter 2 Electricity

Chapter 3 Resistors

Chapter 4 Ohm's Law

Chapter 5 Series Circuits

Chapter 6 Parellel Circuits

Chapter 7 Series-Parallel Circuits/Voltage-Current Dividers

Chapter 8 Network Theorems

Chapter 9 Conductors, Insulators and Semiconductors

Chapter 10 Batteries

Chapter 11 Magnetism

Chapter 12 Analog and Digital Multimeters

Chapter 13 DC Troubleshooting

Chapter 14 Alternating Voltage & Current

Chapter 15 Capacitance

Chapter 16 Capacitive Reactance

Chapter 17 Capacitive Circuits

Chapter 18 Inductance and Transformers

Chapter 19 Inductive Reactance

Chapter 20 Inductive Circuits

Chapter 21 RC and L/R Time Constants

Chapter 22 Resonance

Chapter 23 Filters

Chapter 24 AC Power Wiring and Components (New)

Chapter 25 Wiring, Cabling and Connectors (New)

Chapter 26 AC Test and Troubleshooting (New)

Chapter 27 A System Overview of Electronics (New)

Chapter 28 Semiconductors

Chapter 29 Diode Types and Operation

Chapter 30 Power Supply Circuits

Chapter 31 Introduction to Transistors (New)

Chapter 32 Field Effect Transistors, Amplifiers and Switches

Chapter 33 Bipolar Transistors, Amplifiers and Switches

Chapter 34 Amplifier Fundamentals

Chapter 35 Operational Amplifiers

Chapter 36 Op Amp Applications

Chapter 37 Power Amplifiers

Chapter 38 Oscillators and Frequency Synthesizers

Chapter 39 Regulated Power Supplies

Chapter 40 Thyristors

Chapter 41 Systems Troubleshooting

Contemporary Electronics: Fundamentals, Devices, Circuits and Systems offers a modern approach to fundamental courses for the electronics and electrical fields. It is designed for the first two or three electronic courses in the typical associate degree program in electronic technology. It includes both DC and AC circuits as well as semiconductor fundamentals and basic linear circuits. It addresses the numerous changes that have taken place over the past years in electronics technology, industry, jobs, and the knowledge and skills required by technicians and other technical workers. It can be used in separate DC and AC courses but also in a combined DC/AC course that some schools have adopted in the past years. Contemporary Electronics offers the student the benefit of being able to use a single text in two or three courses minimizing expenses.