Electronics Fundamentals: Circuits, Devices and Applications (Merrill's International Series in Electrical and Electronics Technology) - Hardcover

Thomas L. Floyd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0675207142 ISBN 13: 9780675207140

Publisher: Merrill Publishing Company, 1987

Synopsis

From Wikipedia: Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology dealing with electrical circuits that involve active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies. The nonlinear behaviour of active components and their ability to control electron flows makes amplification of weak signals possible and is usually applied to information and signal processing. Similarly, the ability of electronic devices to act as switches makes digital information processing possible. Interconnection technologies such as circuit boards, electronics packaging technology, and other varied forms of communication infrastructure complete circuit functionality and transform the mixed components into a working system. ~ Electronics is distinct from electrical and electro-mechanical science and technology, which deals with the generation, distribution, switching, storage and conversion of electrical energy to and from other energy forms using wires, motors, generators, batteries, switches, relays, transformers, resistors and other passive components. This distinction started around 1906 with the invention by Lee De Forest of the triode, which made electrical amplification of weak radio signals and audio signals possible with a non-mechanical device. Until 1950 this field was called "radio technology" because its principal application was the design and theory of radio transmitters, receivers and vacuum tubes. ~ Today, most electronic devices use semiconductor components to perform electron control. The study of semiconductor devices and related technology is considered a branch of solid state physics, whereas the design and construction of electronic circuits to solve practical problems come under electronics engineering. This article focuses on engineering aspects of electronics. ~ An electronic component is any physical entity in an electronic system used to affect the...

Edition details

• Publisher: Merrill Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0675207142
• ISBN 13: 9780675207140
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 883