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Understanding modern electronics / Professor Richard Wolfson.

Wolfson, Richard, (teacher.). Teaching Company. (Added Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781598032727
ISBN: 1598032720
Physical Description: 4 videodiscs (approximately 12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 198 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2014]
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

General Note:	Course No. 1162.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographic reference in course guidebook (pages 195-198).
Formatted Contents Note:	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 -- 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.
Participant or Performer Note:	Lecturer: Richard Wolfson, Middlebury college.
System Details Note:	DVD.