Understanding modern electronics /

Wolfson, Richard

Understanding modern electronics / Professor Richard Wolfson. - Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2014] ©2014 - 4 videodiscs (approximately 12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 198 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm). - Great Courses .

Course No. 1162

Disc 1. Electricity and electronics --
Circuits and symbols --
Instruments and measurement --
AC versus DC --
Up the treble, down the bass! --
Semiconductors-the miracle material --
Disc 2. Transistors and how they work --
Transistors as amplifiers --
Building an audio amplifier --
The ideal amplifier --
Feedback magic --
Electronic feedback --
Disc 3. Amplifier circuits using op-amps --
More fun with op-amps --
Using op-amps with capacitors --
Digital versus analog --
Electronics goes digital --
Flip-flop circuits --
Disc 4. Shift and divide-your USB and your watch --
Digital memory --
Digital counters --
Digital to analog --
Analog to digital --
Your future in electronics.

Lecturer: Richard Wolfson, Middlebury college.


In 24 clear and easily accessible lectures, Professor Wolfson combines his academic expertise and his lifelong vocation as an electronics hobbyist to examine how these remarkable devices work, bypassing much of the higher mathematics without sacrificing functional and theoretical understanding. Whether you're an aspiring engineer, an enthusiastic tinkerer, or simply intellectually curious, this course will demystify the behavior and inner circuitry of electronic devices and inspire you to see technology in a whole new light.


9781598032727

1598032720


Electronics
Electricity


Science objective

TK7828