Analog Electronics for Scientific Application

By Dennis Barnaal

Nicely balanced and workable, this introductory book emphasizes practical application of instrumentation, offers clear explanations with a minimum of mathematical analysis, includes a large number of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881334227
• ISBN13: 9780881334227
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Waveland Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Concise Electronics Book

You want to know about Op Amps? BAM - Here's some Op Amps. How about some Full Wave Recitfiers? POW - There you are, sir. This book is direct, to the point and expediently modular - great for those little "Screw MicroCircuits(R), I"m going to make it myself for 1/1,000,000th the price" moments.

very good on the basics

Don't let the previous review dissuade from this book. This is a fine, albeit simple, approach to electronics. The author has a good writing style giving lots of qualitative descriptions of the basics. Having said that, it is lacking a bit in the comprehensiveness department. The chapter on Transducers is solid and the op-amp chapter is very good, too. Best thing about the book are the end of chapter review exercises and problems. New material is often introduced here and you have to have a good understanding of the chapter material to answer them. It's not just plug-n-chug from given equations to get an answer. The author is also to be commended for showing how the material relates to actual circuits that scientists could use. Most electronics books seem to leave out this critical motivational material. Contents: 1. Passive Components and Networks 2. Important Electronic Instruments 3. Transducers 4. Diodes and Power Supplies 5. Amplifier Behavior 6. Operational Amplifier and Electronic Function Blocks 7. Waveform-Shaping Circuits 8. Discrete Electronic Devices