Tattersfield G.Basic Electronics.Electrical Circuit Analys. 1997

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This book was written as a manual to accompany a module in Introductory Electronics, given as part of the second-year course in Electrical Engineering at the University of Cape Town. The module is lectured over one semester, and it consists of 21 lectures (plus 2 tests and one closing lecture) each of which is given as a chapter in the following pages. This book is one of a series of student manuals prepared by the same author, and is designed to be read with the similar handbook entitled Electrical Circuit Analysis. It is conventional to teach circuit analysis first, and then to give students a course in basic electronics in the following semester. However, there is increasing pressure to cover the fundamentals of Electrical Engineering rapidly in the early years of a degree course, so as to leave time later for the everwidening variety of more advanced material. The courses outlined in these two books have been specifically designed at UCT so that the circuits and electronics modules may be given simultaneously. To this end, this Basic Electronics handbook has been written with certain particular aims in mind