TY - BOOK AU - Wolfson, Richard ED - Teaching company TI - Understanding modern electronics SN - 9781598032727 AV - TK7828 PY - 2014///] ©2014 CY - Chantilly, VA : PB - Teaching Company, KW - Electronics KW - Electricity KW - Science objective N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -