Description
Condition
GOOD: The book’s cover, spine, and pages are in good condition. Its dust jacket shows the most signs of wear with some creasing, marks, and small tears. The dust jacket, pages, and page edges are also showing signs of the book’s age with tanning and spotting.
Product Details
From the dust jacket’s front flap: “What are the modern electronic components and instruments? How do they work, or fail to work? For what purpose are they used? This book, different from all others in the field in its practical emphasis, is designed to answer these important questions. It is not a book on electronic theory, in fact little theoretical background is required for using and understanding it. Its purpose is to create the skills necessary for conducting intelligent experimental investigations and solving measurement problems, both in and out of the laboratory. To accomplish this purpose, it provides specific information about a wide variety of electronic test equipment and outlines proper procedures for application of such equipment.”
If you, or someone you know, collects electronic equipment this is a must have book. It provides pictures, equations and diagrams of some older equipment. Note the equations are as true today as they were when the book was written.
Topics include:
- safety in the laboratory
- basic laboratory practices
- elements of data presentations and analysis
- elementary oscilloscopes
- basic DC and AC meters
- graphic display of two- and three-terminal characteristics
- resistors
- capacitors
- inductors and transformers
- DC power sources
- advanced oscilloscopes
- storage and sampling oscilloscopes
- advanced voltage and current measurements
- signal and pulse generators
- time, frequency, and waveform analysis
- operational amplifiers
- digital integrated circuits
- RF impedance measurements
- coaxial cables
- thermal measurements and heat sinks
- basic characteristics of semiconductor devices