An introduction to electronics
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Electronics everywhere
    • 1.1 Autonomous systems
      • Sensing
      • Logic
      • Actuation
    • 1.2 The sensing–logic–actuation cycle in practice
  • 2 Basic theory of electrical circuits
    • 2.1  Basic electrical quantities
    • 2.2  Relationships between quantities
    • 2.3 Ohm’s law and Kirchhoff ’s laws
      • Ohm’s law
      • Kirchhoff ’s laws
      • Series and parallel networks (combining the laws)
    • 2.4 Colour coding and standard resistor values
  • 3 Some fundamental circuits
    • 3.1 Voltage dividers
    • 3.2 The Wheatstone bridge
    • 3.3  Operational amplifier circuits
    • 3.4  Designing a sensor circuit
  • 4  Signals and signal processing
    • 4.1  High-fidelity sound reproduction and electronics
    • 4.2  Recording sounds
    • 4.3  Recording and analysing speech
    • 4.4  Signals and sine waves
    • 4.5  Making signals from combinations of sine waves
      • The square wave challenge
    • 4.6  From the time domain to the frequency domain
    • 4.7  Signals and noise
    • 4.8  Filtering
    • 4.9  Amplifying signals
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements

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