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Basic Electronics for Scientists and Engineers by Dennis
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Experimental data often come in the form of electronic signals, and one needs to understand how to acquire and manipulate such signals properly.
Indeed, in graduate school, everyone had a story about a budding scientist who got very excited about some new result, only to later discover that the result was just an artifact of the electronics they were using (or misusing!).
In addition, most research labs these days have at least a few homemade circuits, often because the desired electronic function is either not available commercially or is prohibitively expensive.
Other anecdotes could be added, but these suffice to illustrate the utility of understanding basic electronics for the working scientist.
On the other hand, the sheer volume of information on electronics makes learning the subject a daunting task.
Electronics is a multi-hundred billion dollar a year industry, and new products of ever-increasing specialization are developed regularly.
Some introductory electronics texts are longer than introductory physics texts, and the print catalog for one national electronic parts distributor exceeds two thousand pages (with tiny fonts!).
Finally, the undergraduate curriculum for most science and engineering majors (excepting, of course, electrical engineering) does not have much space for the study of electronics.
For many science students, formal study of electronics is limited to the coverage of voltage, current, and passive components (resistors, capacitors, and inductors) in introductory physics.
A dedicated course in electronics, if it exists, is usually limited to one semester. This text grew out of my attempts to deal with this three-fold challenge.
It is based on my notes for a one-semester course on electronics I have taught for many years in the Physics Department of Occidental College.
The students in the course are typically sophomore, junior, or senior students majoring in physics or pre-engineering, with some from the other sciences and mathematics.
The students have usually had at least two introductory physics courses and two semesters of calculus. The primary challenge of such a course is to select the topics to include.
My choices for this text have been guided by several principles: I wanted the text to be a rigorous, self-contained, one-semester introduction to basic analog and digital electronics.
It should start with basic concepts and at least touch upon the major topics. I also let the choice of material be guided by those topics I thought were fundamental or have found useful during my career as a researcher in experimental plasma physics.
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Preface to Basic Electronics for Scientists and Engineers
A professor of mine once opined that the best working experimentalists tended to have a good grasp of basic electronics.Experimental data often come in the form of electronic signals, and one needs to understand how to acquire and manipulate such signals properly.
Indeed, in graduate school, everyone had a story about a budding scientist who got very excited about some new result, only to later discover that the result was just an artifact of the electronics they were using (or misusing!).
In addition, most research labs these days have at least a few homemade circuits, often because the desired electronic function is either not available commercially or is prohibitively expensive.
Other anecdotes could be added, but these suffice to illustrate the utility of understanding basic electronics for the working scientist.
On the other hand, the sheer volume of information on electronics makes learning the subject a daunting task.
Electronics is a multi-hundred billion dollar a year industry, and new products of ever-increasing specialization are developed regularly.
Some introductory electronics texts are longer than introductory physics texts, and the print catalog for one national electronic parts distributor exceeds two thousand pages (with tiny fonts!).
Finally, the undergraduate curriculum for most science and engineering majors (excepting, of course, electrical engineering) does not have much space for the study of electronics.
For many science students, formal study of electronics is limited to the coverage of voltage, current, and passive components (resistors, capacitors, and inductors) in introductory physics.
A dedicated course in electronics, if it exists, is usually limited to one semester. This text grew out of my attempts to deal with this three-fold challenge.
It is based on my notes for a one-semester course on electronics I have taught for many years in the Physics Department of Occidental College.
The students in the course are typically sophomore, junior, or senior students majoring in physics or pre-engineering, with some from the other sciences and mathematics.
The students have usually had at least two introductory physics courses and two semesters of calculus. The primary challenge of such a course is to select the topics to include.
My choices for this text have been guided by several principles: I wanted the text to be a rigorous, self-contained, one-semester introduction to basic analog and digital electronics.
It should start with basic concepts and at least touch upon the major topics. I also let the choice of material be guided by those topics I thought were fundamental or have found useful during my career as a researcher in experimental plasma physics.
| Language | English |
| Pages | 267 |
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| File Size | 1.59 MB |
