A Practical Handbook to Analog Electronics

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A Practical Handbook to

Analog Electronics

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Preface

This handbook can be a supplemental tool to an analog electronics textbook. The main purpose of this handbook is a HANDS-ON APPROACH in learning analog circuits.

In each section, an analog component is introduced and then a software/hardware circuit will follow. The hardware circuit is the simulation of the software circuit.

The main goal of this handbook is to create a vast visualization of the working function of the analog electronics circuitries. Based on my experience in teaching electronics, students had more problems with setting up the hardware circuits than software circuits. Therefore, one of my main intentions in writing this handbook is to guide the students through setting up a complete wiring of the circuits.

This handbook is a COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE of the practical working of the analog circuits and can be used as a crash course in analog electronics, a lab-book, or a supplement to any analog electronics textbook.

Contents

Chapter 1: Diodes

1.1 Ideal Diode

1.2 Silicon Diode

1.3 Light-Emitting Diode (LED)

1.4 Zener Diode

Chapter 2: Diode Applications

2.1 Half-Wave Rectifier

2.2 Full-Wave Rectifier

2.3 Full-Wave Bridge Rectifier

2.4 Capacitor-Input Filter

2.5 Power Supply

2.6 Positive and Negative Clippers

2.7 Positive and Negative Clampers

Chapter 3: Transistors

3.1 NPN Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT)

3.2 NPN Bipolar Junction Transistor as a Switch

3.3 NPN Bipolar Junction Transistor as an Amplifier

3.4 N-Channel Junction Field Effect Transistor (JFET)

3.5 N-Channel JFET as a Switch

3.6 N-Channel JFET as a Constant Current Source

3.7 N-Channel JFET as an Amplifier

3.8 N-Channel Metal-Oxide Semiconductor FET (MOSFET)

3.8.1 N-Channel Depletion-Mode Metal-Oxide Semiconductor FET (D-MOSFET)

3.8.2 N-Channel Enhancement-Mode Metal-Oxide Semiconductor FET (E-MOSFET)

3.9 N-Channel E-MOSFET as a Switch

Chapter 4: Operational Amplifiers

4.1 The 741 Operational Amplifier (Op Amp)

4.2 Comparator

4.3 Non-inverting Amplifier

4.4 Inverting Amplifier

4.5 Summing Amplifier

4.6 Differential Amplifier

Chapter 5:Timer And Its Applications

5.1 The 555 Timer

5.2 The 555 Timer in an Astable Multivibrator circuit

5.3 The 555 Timer in a Monostable Multivibrator circuit

5.4 The 555 Timer in a Voltage-Controlled Oscillator circuit

Chapter 6: Voltage Regulator

6.1 LM78XX Fixed Voltage Regulator

6.2 LM317 Variable Voltage Regulator

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