Grob's Basic Electronics

Grob’s Basic Electronics is written for the beginning student pursuing a technical degree in Electronics Technology. This longtime best-selling text has been refined, updated and made more student friendly. The focus on absolutely essential knowledge for technicians, and focus on real-world applications of these basic concepts makes it ideal for today’s technology students. In covering the fundamentals of electricity and electronics, this text focuses on essential topics for the technician, and the all-important development of testing and troubleshooting skills. This highly practical approach combines clear, carefully-laid-out explanations of key topics with good, worked-out examples and problems to solve. Review problems that follow each section reinforce the material just completed, making this a very student-friendly text. It is a thoroughly accessible introduction to basic DC and AC circuits and electronic devices. McGraw-Hill's Connect, is also available as an optional, add on item. Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, how they need it, so that class time is more effective. Connect allows the professor to assign homework, quizzes, and tests easily and automatically grades and records the scores of the student's work. Problems are randomized to prevent sharing of answers an may also have a "multi-step solution" which helps move the students' learning along if they experience difficulty.  View Sample Chapter

Table of Contents:
1) Electricity 2) Resistors 3) Ohm’s Law - View Sample Chapter 4) Series Circuits 5) Parallel Circuits 6) Series-Parallel Circuits 7) Voltage Dividers and Current Dividers 8) Analog and Digital Multimeters 9) Kirchhoff ’s Laws 10) Network Theorems 11) Conductors and Insulators 12) Batteries 13) Magnetism 14) Electromagnetism 15) Alternating Voltage and Current 16) Capacitance 17) Capacitive Reactance 18) Capacitive Circuits 19) Inductance 20) Inductive Reactance 21) Inductive Circuits 22) RC and L/R Time Constants 23) Alternating Current Circuits 24) Complex Numbers for AC Circuits 25) Resonance 26) Filters 27) Diodes and Diode Applications 28) Bipolar Junction Transistors 29) Transistor Amplifiers 30) Field Effect Transistors 31) Power Amplifiers 32) Thyristors 33) Operational Amplifiers Appendix A - Electrical Symbols and Abbreviations Appendix B - Solder and the Soldering Process Appendix C - Listing of Preferred Resistance Values Appendix D - Component Schematic Symbols Appendix E - Using the Oscilloscope Appendix F - Introduction to MultiSIM Glossary Answers - Self-Tests Answers - Odd-Numbered Problems and Critical Thinking Problems