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Electronics Fundamentals: Circuits, Devices & Applications, 8/E
Thomas L. Floyd
David M. BuchlaYuba Community College

ISBN-10: 0135072956
ISBN-13:  9780135072950

Publisher:  Prentice Hall
Copyright:  2010
Format:  Cloth; 992 pp
Published:  06/23/2009
Status: Instock


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For DC/AC Circuits courses requiring a comprehensive, all inclusive text covering basic DC/AC Circuit fundamentals with additional chapters on Devices.

 

This renowned text offers a comprehensive yet practical exploration of basic electrical and electronic concepts, hands-on applications, and troubleshooting. Written in a clear and accessible narrative, the Seventh Edition focuses on fundamental principles and their applications to solving real circuit analysis problems, and devotes six chapters to examining electronic devices.


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Hallmark Features:

  • Symptom/Cause” problems, and exercises on Multisim circuits on CD-ROM.
  • Key terms glossary–Furnished at the end of each chapter.
  • Vivid illustrations.
  • Numerous examples in each chapter–Illustrate major concepts, theorems, and methods.
  • Superior pedagogical package–Includes two-page chapter openers with section lists, chapter objectives, key terms lists, and application assignments; section openers and objectives, reviews, summaries, formula lists, self tests, circuit simulation problems, graduated problem sets, hands-on tips, and biographies of key figures in the history of electricity, safety points, calculator tutorials and calculator solutions.
  • Complete Instructors Resource Package (Power Point Presentations, Lab Manual Solutions, Chapter Problem Solutions, Computerized Test Generator, EWB Circuit Files)


New To This Edition

  • More practical applications
  • New problems in most chapters.
  • New true/false quiz at the end of each chapter
  • Expanded safety coverage
  • True/false quiz at the end of each chapter
  • Internet references for selected topics
  • More Multisim circuits
  • Multisim tutorial in the appendix
  • Multisim 10 and Multsim 9 circuit files with appendix directions for accessing the website files.
  • Coverage of fuel cells and expanded coverage of batteries, solar cells,
  • Section on voltage measurements.
  • Coverage of the Hall Effect and expanded coverage of magnetic and electromagnetic topics.
  • Section on dc motors and generators
  • Section on ac motors and generators (alternators)
  • Expanded coverage of capacitive and inductive reactance
  • Section on dc motors and generators
  • Numerous other improvements and updates


Table of Contents

Electronics Fundamentals  

 

Part I  DC Circuits

 

Chapter 1  Quantities and Units

1-1   Scientific and Engineering Notation

1-2   Units and Metric Prefixes

1-3   Metric Unit Conversions

1-4   Measured Numbers

1-5   Electrical Safety

 

Chapter 2  Voltage, Current, and Resistance

 2-1 Atoms

 2-2 Electrical Charge

 2-3 Voltage

 2-4 Current

 2-5 Resistance

 2-6 The Electric Circuit

 2-7 Basic Circuit Measurements

        Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

Chapter 3  Ohm’s Law, Energy, and Power

3-1   Ohm’s Law

3-2   Application of Ohm’s Law

3-3   Energy and Power

3-4   Power in an Electric Circuit

3-5   The Power Rating of Resistors

3-6   Energy Conversion and Voltage Drop in a Resistance

3-7   Power Supplies

3-8   Introduction to Troubleshooting

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

 

Chapter 4  Series Circuits

4-1   Resistors in Series

4-2   Total Series Resistance

4-3   Current in a Series Circuit

4-4   Application of Ohm’s Law

4-5   Voltage Sources in Series

4-6   Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law

4-7   Voltage Dividers

4-8   Power in Series Circuits

4-9   Voltage Measurements

4-10  Troubleshooting

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

Chapter 5  Parallel Circuits

5-1   Resistors in Parallel

5-2   Total Parallel Resistance

5-3   Voltage in a Parallel Circuit

5-4   Application of Ohm’s Law

5-5   Kirchhoff’s Current Law

5-6   Current Dividers

5-7   Power in Parallel Circuits

5-8   Troubleshooting

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

Chapter 6 Series-Parallel Circuits

6-1   Identifying Series-Parallel Relationships

6-2   Analysis of Series-Parallel Resistive Circuits

6-3   Voltage Dividers with Resistive Loads

6-4   Loading Effect of a Voltmeter

6-5   The Wheatstone Bridge

6-6   Thevenin’s Theorem

6-7   The Maximum Power Transfer Theorem

6-8   The Superposition Theorem

6-9   Troubleshooting

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

Chapter 7  Magnetism and Electromagnetism

7-1   The Magnetic Field

7-2   Electromagnetism

7-3   Electromagnetic Devices

7-4   Magnetic Hysteresis

7-5   Electromagnetic Induction

7-6   Applications of Electromagnetic Induction

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

 

Part II  AC Circuits

 

Chapter 8 Introduction to Alternating Current and Voltage

8-1   The Sinusoidal Waveform

8-2   Sinusoidal Voltage Sources

8-3   Voltage and Current Values of Sine Waves

8-4   Angular Measurement of a Sine Wave

8-5   The Sine Wave Formula

8-6   Analysis of AC Circuits

8-7   Superimposed DC and AC Voltages

8-8   Nonsinusoidal Waveforms

8-9   The Oscilloscope

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

Chapter 9 Capacitors

9-1   The Basic Capacitor

9-2   Types of Capacitors

9-3   Series Capacitors

9-4   Parallel Capacitors

9-5   Capacitors in DC Circuits

9-6   Capacitors in AC Circuits

9-7   Capacitor Applications

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

 

Chapter 10 RC Circuits

10-1  Sinusoidal Response of RC Circuits

10-2  Impedance and Phase Angle of Series RC Circuits

10-3  Analysis of Series RC Circuits

10-4  Impedance and Phase Angle of Parallel RC Circuits

10-5  Analysis of Parallel RC Circuits

10-6  Analysis of Series-Parallel RC Circuits

10-7  Power in RC Circuits

10-8  Basic Applications

10-9  Troubleshooting

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

 

Chapter 11 Inductors

11-1  The Basic Inductor

11-2  Types of Inductors

11-3  Series and Parallel Inductors

11-4  Inductors in DC Circuits

11-5  Inductors in AC Circuits

11-6  Inductor Applications

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

 

Chapter 12 RL Circuits

12-1  Sinusoidal Response of RL Circuits

12-2  Impedance and Phase Angle of Series RL Circuits

12-3  Analysis of Series RL Circuits

12-4  Impedance and Phase Angle of Parallel RL Circuits

12-5  Analysis of Parallel RL Circuits

12-6  Analysis of Series-Parallel RL Circuits

12-7  Power in RL Circuits

12-8  Basic Applications

12-9  Troubleshooting

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

Chapter 13  RLC Circuits and Resonance

13-1  Impedance and Phase Angle of Series RLC Circuits

13-2  Analysis of Series RLC Circuits

13-3  Series Resonance

13-4  Series Resonant Filters

13-5  Parallel RLC Circuits

13-6  Parallel Resonance

13-7  Parallel Resonant Filters

13-8  Applications

Application Assignment Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

Chapter 14  Time Response of Reactive Circuits

14-1  The RC Integrator

14-2  Response of RC Integrators to a Single Pulse

14-3  Response of RC Integrators to Repetitive Pulses

14-4  Response of RC Differentiators to a Single Pulse

14-5  Response of RC Differentiators to Repetitive Pulses

14-6  Response of RL Integrators to Pulse Inputs

14-7  Response of RL Differentiators to Pulse Inputs

14-8  Applications

14-9  Troubleshooting

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

Chapter 15 Transformers

15-1  Mutual Inductance

15-2  The Basic Transformer

15-3  Step-Up and Step-Down Transformers

15-4  Loading the Secondary

15-5  Reflected Load

15-6  Impedance Matching

15-7  Nonideal Transformer Characteristics

15-8  Tapped and Multiple-Winding Transformers

15-9  Troubleshooting

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

Part III  Devices

 

Chapter 16 Diodes and Applications

16-1  Introduction to Semiconductors

16-2  The PN Junction Diode

16-3  Diode Characteristics

16-4  Diode Rectifiers

16-5  Power Supplies

16-6  Special-Purpose Diodes

16-7  Troubleshooting

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

Chapter 17  Transistors and Applications

17-1  DC Operation of Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJTs)

17-2  BJT Class A Amplifiers

17-3  BJT Class B Amplifiers

17-4  The BJT as a Switch

17-5  DC Operations of Field-Effect Transistors (FETs)

17-6  FET Amplifiers

17-7  Feedback Oscillators

17-8  Troubleshooting

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

Chapter 18  The Operational Amplifier

18-1  Introduction to the Operational Amplifier

18-2  The Differential Amplifier

18-3  Op-Amp Parameters

18-4  Negative Feedback

18-5  Op-Amp Configurations with Negative Feedback

18-6  Op-Amp Impedances

18-7  Troubleshooting

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

 

Chapter 19 Basic Op-Amp Circuits

19-1  Comparators

19-2  Summing Amplifiers

19-3  Integrators and Differentiators

19-4  Oscillators

19-5  Active Filters

19-6  Voltage Regulators

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

Chapter 20 Special-Purpose Op-Amp Circuits

20-1  Instrumentation Amplifiers

20-2  Isolation Amplifiers

20-3  Operational Transconductance Amplifiers (OTAs)

20-4  Active Diode Circuits

20-5  Other Op-Amp Circuits

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

Chapter 21 Measurement, Conversion, and Control

21-1  Temperature Measurement

21-2  Strain, Pressure, and Flow-Rate Measurements

21-3  Motion Measurement

21-4  Sample-and-Hold Circuits

21-5  Analog-to-Digital Conversion

21-6  Power-Control Circuits

Application Assignment: Putting Your Knowledge to Work

 

Appendices

A     Table of Standard Resistor Values

B      Capacitor Color Coding and Marking

C      The Current Source, Norton’s Theorem, and Millman’s Theorem

D      Devices Data Sheets

E       Field-Programmable Analog Arrays (FPAAs)

 

Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems

Glossary

Index


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