This book is different to
other electronics texts available. First, it is short. Created for a
one-semester course taken by physics students, both undergraduate and graduate
it includes only the essentials and covers those topics only as deeply as
needed in order to understand the material in the integrated laboratory
exercises. Unlike many electronics texts for physics students, this one does
not delve into the physics of devices. Instead, these are largely treated
as black boxes having certain properties that are important to know for
designing circuits. The physics comes when the students use their acquired
electronics instrumentation knowledge to construct apparatus to make
measurements. Since the detailed physics has been left out, this book should be
equally useful for students in any of the physical or life sciences. This is
the first textbook aimed at the non-electrical engineering student, that has
both the generality on analog and digital electronics circuits, coupled to the
very timely technology of embedded electronics. The book also features homework
exercises, parts list and a suite of useful appendices.
Key Features
- Combined lectures and
laboratory course
- Covers analog and digital electronics
- Includes embedded systems
- Homework problems with
solutions
- Complete inventory of
required components
Table of Contents:
Preface
I
Lectures
1
Introduction
2 RC
Circuits
3 Diodes
& Transistors
4 Op Amps
I
5 Op Amps
II: Non-Ideal Behavior & Positive Feedback
6 Digital
Gates: Combinational and Sequential Logic
7
Digital-Analog, Analog-Digital, and Phase-Locked Loops
8
Embedded Electronics
II Lab
Manual
9 Getting
Started
10 R’s
& C’s
11
Transistors
12 Op
Amps I
13 Op
Amps II: Positive Feedback, Good & Bad
14
Digital Gates: Combinational and Sequential Logic
15
Digital-Analog, Analog-Digital, and Phase-Locked Loops
16
Embedded Electronics, Featuring the Beagle Bone Black
III
Solutions to Homework
17 RC
Circuits
18 Diodes
& Transistors
19 Op
Amps 1
20
Op-Amps 2
21
Digital Gates
22
Digital-Analog, Analog-Digital and Phase-Locked Loops
Appendices
A
Glossary of Terms
B The
Linux Operating System
C
Connecting to a Remote Computer on the Internet
D Editors
E Brief
Primer on C++
F Moving
Files onto and off of a Linux USB Port
G
Introduction to Gnuplot
H
spidev.c Listing
I Pinouts
of Selected Components
J Setting
Up the Beaglebone Black
K Parts
Lists
About the Author :
Brett D DePaola is a
Professor of physics at Kansas State University. He received his BS and MS in physics from Miami University, and his PhD in physics from The University of
Texas at Dallas. DePaola’s research in atomic, molecular, and optical
physics covers a wide range of topics, from ion-atom collisions to coherent
control using ultra-short laser pulses. The over-arching theme is the
understanding of basic physical processes at the atomic level. His most recent
research explores how modulating the spectral phase of ultra-short laser pulses
affects coherent excitation in atoms and simple molecules. DePaola
has made seminal contributions to the measurement technique known as MOTRIMS, he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has won numerous
teaching awards as well as given invited lectures worldwide.
Review :
“The topics covered allow the course to build from simple
circuits that the students may well already understand, through to measurements
using embedded systems while covering a broad range of ‘useful’ circuits along
the way. Key strengths are that it covers only what is required to enable
understanding and utilisation of practical electronics for physical sciences.
Employing user-friendly open-source microcontroller/computer platform to
explore embedded systems is very useful; data acquisition into a computer is no
longer a ‘black box’ for the students.”
Aidan T. Hindmarch, 2020 Department of
Physics, Durham University, UK
