Re: electronics texts

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

In addition to the std. texts, check out the applications. e.g.
Melissinos, Preston & Dietz (The Art of Exptl. Phys.), also Moore,
Davis, and Coplan (Building Scientific Apparatus).

bc


Bob Muir wrote:

> Hi folks,
> I have not been able to find any, satisfactory to me, currently
> published textbooks of the genre "Electronics for Scientists".
>
> If you have been teaching an "Electronics for Scientists" course,
> will you please share with me the course format, content, and what
> you use for textual materials?
>
> If you will communicate with me off list, I will summarize the
> results and post to the list.
>
> I have been teaching (for a long time) a course entitled "Electronics
> for Scientists" that meets twice a week for 50 minute "lectures" and
> once a week for 2hours & 50 minute lab.  The objectives of the course
> have evolved over the years.  I started with the first edition of
> Malmstadt, Enke, and Toren (1962).  So, the objectives were the same
> as for the course they designed.  This included vacumn tube
> amplifiers, power supplies, transistors, etc.  When that book became
> obsolete, I switched to the BugBooks of Rony, Larsen, and Braden
> (VPI) for digital ICs along with "Design of op-amp circuits, with
> experiments" by Berlin. The latter text is of the same format as the
> BugBooks.  The objectives became the introduction of students to IC
> circuits both digital and analog along with a little on transistors
> and diodes, power supplies and the use of o'scopes, voltmeters,
> ammeters, and ohmmeters.  I developed lecture notes to go along with
> these texts which are primarily hands-on lab activities.
>
> Since the BugBooks have gone out of print, I have been using
> photocopies (with permission of Rony) for the lab and Faissler's
> "Modern Electronics" and my own notes for lecture.
>
> Now, I would like to have a book that has primarily an applied
> orientation.  It should contain problem sets and lab activities that
> are integrated with the textual materials. I would like it to treat
> diodes and transistors to a minimal extent, op-amps & digital IC's to
> a large extent, noise and grounding issues, signal processing, etc.
> I don't want it to get bogged down with detailed treatment of the
> properties of solid state materials and semiconductors.  I want
> students who have completed the course to be able to design simple
> anlog, digital, and combintation circuits using IC devices and to be
> able to analyze more complex circuits from a circuit diagram (as well
> as to breadboard them).
>
> Does anyone have a favorite text that comes close to this?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
>
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> Bob Muir                      muirrob@uncg.edu
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