Problems And Solutions In Electronics

Many changes have been made in this edition, first to the nomenclature so that the book is in agreement with the International System of Units (S. I. ) and secondly to the circuit diagrams so that they conform to B. S. S. 3939. The book has been enlarged and now has 546 problems. Much more emphasis has been given to semiconductor devices and transistor circuits, additional topics and references for further reading have been introduced, some of the original problems and solutions have been taken out and several minor modifications and corrections have been made. It could be argued that thermionic-valve circuits should not have been mentioned since valves are no longer considered important by most electronic designers except possibly for very high power or voltage applications. Some of the original problems on valves and valve circuits have been retained, however, for completeness because the material is still present in many syllabuses and despite the advent and prolification of solid-state devices in recent years the good old-fashioned valve looks like being in existence for a long time. There are still some topics readers may expect to find included which have had to be omitted; others have had less space devoted to them than one would have liked. A new feature of this edition is that some problems with answers, given at the end of each chapter, are left as student exercises so the solutions are not included. The author wishes to thank his colleagues Professor P. N.

This book of problems with worked solutions is designed to provide practice in problem solving for students on undergraduate and HND programmes in Electronics. It may be used as a stand-alone book or as a companion volume to Electronics by Crecraft, Gorham and Sparkes (Chapman & Hall, 1992)

This book contains entirely numerical problems and fully worked solutions in the topic of basic electronic circuits and it is designed for entry-level undergraduate courses as a supplement to standard textbooks and references. Each chapter contains interesting numerical problems with fully worked solutions to illustrate the approach of problem solving techniques for electronic circuits. The book is written in a lucid manner so that students are able to understand the realization behind the mathematical concepts which are the backbone of this subject. The book will benefit students who are taking introductory courses in electronic circuits and devices.

This Solution Manual, a companion volume of the book, Fundamentals of Solid-State Electronics, provides the solutions to selected problems listed in the book. Most of the solutions are for the selected problems that had been assigned to the engineering undergraduate students who were taking an introductory device core course using this book.This Solution Manual also contains an extensive appendix which illustrates the application of the fundamentals to solutions of state-of-the-art transistor reliability problems which have been taught to advanced undergraduate and graduate students.