Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION

• Electronics as science

• Setting up a home lab

Chapter 2 BASIC CONCEPTS AND TEST EQUIPMENT

• Voltmeter usage

• Ohmmeter usage

• A very simple circuit

• Ammeter usage

• Ohm's Law

• Nonlinear resistance

• Power dissipation

• Circuit with a switch

• Electromagnetism

Chapter 3 DC CIRCUITS

• Introduction

• Series batteries

• Parallel batteries

• Voltage divider

• Current divider

• Potentiometer as a voltage divider

• Potentiometer as a rheostat

• Precision potentiometer

• Rheostat range limiting

• Thermoelectricity

• Make your own multimeter

• Sensitive voltage detector

• Potentiometric voltmeter

• 4-wire resistance measurement

• A very simple computer

• Potato battery

• Capacitor charging and discharging

• Rate-of-change indicator

Chapter 4 AC CIRCUITS

• Introduction

• Transformer -- power supply

• Build a transformer

• Variable inductor

• Sensitive audio detector

• Sensing AC magnetic fields

• Sensing AC electric fields

• Automotive alternator

• Phase shift

• Sound cancellation

• Musical keyboard as a signal generator

• PC Oscilloscope

• Waveform analysis

• Inductor-capacitor "tank" circuit

• Signal coupling

Chapter 5 DISCRETE SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUITS

• Introduction

• Commutating diode

• Half-wave rectifier

• Full-wave center-tap rectifier

• Full-wave bridge rectifier

• Rectifier/filter circuit

• Voltage regulator

• Transistor as a switch

• Static electricity sensor

• Pulsed-light sensor

• Voltage follower

• Common-emitter amplifier

• Multi-stage amplifier

• Current mirror

• JFET current regulator

• Differential amplifier

• Simple op-amp

• Audio oscillator

• Vacuum tube audio amplifier

Chapter 6 ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

• Introduction

• Voltage comparator

• Precision voltage follower

• Noninverting amplifier

• High-impedance voltmeter

• Integrator

• 555 audio oscillator

• 555 ramp generator

• PWM power controller

• Class B audio amplifier

Chapter 7 DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

• Introduction

• Basic gate function

• NOR gate S-R latch

• NAND gate S-R enabled latch

• NAND gate S-R flip-flop

• LED sequencer

• Simple combination lock

• 3-bit binary counter

• 7-segment display