Basic Electronics for Scientists and Engineers

This concise and practical textbook introduces undergraduate students to the fundamentals of both analog and digital electronics. Now in its second edition, the text has been updated and expanded with additional topic coverage and exercises. It remains an essential resource for those wishing to understand and apply basic electronic principles.

List of contents

Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; 1. Sources, resistors, and circuit laws; 2. AC circuits; 3 Band theory and diode circuits; 4. Bipolar junction transistors; 5 Field-effect transistors; 6. Operational amplifiers; 7. Oscillators; 8. Digital circuits and devices; Appendix A. Selected answers to exercises; Appendix B. Linearity and Its Consequences; Appendix C. Tellegen's Theorem; Appendix D. Solving a set of linear algebraic equations; Appendix E. Inductively coupled circuits; Appendix F. Model Equations for Bipolar Junction Transistors; Appendix G. Transistor Hybrid Parameters; Appendix H. Minterms, maxterms, and canonical form; Appendix I. Binary subtraction using two's complements; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Dennis L. Eggleston is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Occidental College, Los Angeles. During his thirty-five years at the College he taught undergraduate courses and labs at all levels, including the course on which this textbook is based. He also established an active research program in plasma physics and, in collaboration with his undergraduate assistants, designed and constructed three plasma devices which formed the basis for the research program.

Product details

• Authors: Eggleston Dennis L.
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.09.2025
• EAN: 9781009622394
• ISBN: 978-1-009-62239-4
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electronics / Circuits / General, Scientific equipment, experiments & techniques, Scientific equipment, experiments and techniques, For higher / tertiary / university education, Electronics: circuits and components, Textbook, coursework, Circuits & components