Hands-on electronics: a one-semester course for class instruction or self-study

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; About the authors; To the Reader; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Equipment familiarization: multimeter, breadboard, and oscilloscope; 2 RC circuits; 3 Diodes; 4 Bipolar transistors; 5 Tansistors II: FETs; 6 Transistors III: differential amplifier; 7 Introduction to operational amplifiers; 8 More op amp applications; 9 Comparators and oscillators; 10 Combinational logic; 11 Flip-flops: saving a logic state; 12 Monostables, counters, multiplexers, and RAM; 13 Digital ... analog conversion; Further reading.