Table of Contents

Preface.
A word about safety.
1 Electrical fundamentals.
2 Passive components.
3 D.C. circuits.
4 Alternating voltage and current.
5 Semiconductors.
6 Power supplies.
7 Amplifiers.
8 Operational amplifiers.
9 Oscillators.
10 Logic circuits.
11 Microprocessor systems.
12 The 555 timer.
13 Radio.
14 Test equipment and measurements.
15 Fault finding.
16 Sensors and interfacing.
17 Circuit simulation.
18 The PIC microcontroller.
19 Circuit construction.
Appendix 1 – Student assignments.
Appendix 2 – Revision problems.
Appendix 3 – Answers to problems.
Appendix 4 – Semiconductor pin connections.
Appendix 5 – 1N4148 data sheet.
Appendix 6 – 2N3904 data sheet.
Appendix 7 – Decibels.
Appendix 8 – Mathematics for electronics.
Appendix 9 – Some useful web links.
Index.

About the Author

Mike Tooley is a technical author and consultant. He was formerly Vice Principal at Brooklands College in Surrey, England, where he was responsible for the delivery of learning to over 10,000 Further and Higher Education students increasingly by flexible, open and on-line distance learning. Mike is the well-known author of several popular engineering and related text books, including widely adopted course texts for BTEC, GCE A-level and GCSE qualifications in Engineering. Mike's hobbies include astronomy, amateur radio, aviation, computing and electronic circuit design and construction.