Make electronics
"This is teaching at its best!" --Hans Camenzind, inventor of the 555 timer (the world's most successful integrated circuit), and author of Much Ado About Almost Nothing: Man's Encounter with the Electron (Booklocker.com) "A fabulous book: well written, well paced, fun, and...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco, California :
Maker Media
2015.
2015. |
| Edición: | 2nd ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629687206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Copyright""; ""Table of Contents""; ""What's New in the Second Edition""; ""Preface: How to Have Fun with This Book""; ""How to Contact Us""; ""Chapter 1. The Basics""; ""Necessary Items for Chapter One""; ""The Multimeter""; ""Ranging""; ""Values""; ""Safety Glasses""; ""Batteries and Connectors""; ""Test Leads""; ""Potentiometer""; ""Fuse""; ""Light-Emitting Diodes""; ""Resistors""; ""Experiment 1: Taste the Power!""; ""What You Will Need""; ""Caution: No More than Nine Volts""; ""Procedure""; ""Setting Up Your Meter""; ""Fundamentals: Ohms""; ""Measuring Your Tongue""
- ""Fundamentals: Inside a Battery""""Further Investigation""; ""Background: The Man Who Discovered Resistance""; ""Cleanup and Recycling""; ""Experiment 2: Let's Abuse a Battery!""; ""Caution: Use a Small Battery""; ""What You Will Need""; ""Generating Heat with Current""; ""Background: Why Didn't Your Tongue Get Hot?""; ""Fundamentals: Volt Basics""; ""Fundamentals: Ampere Basics""; ""How to Blow a Fuse""; ""Fundamentals: Direct and Alternating Current""; ""Background: Inventor of the Battery""; ""Background: Father of Electromagnetism""; ""Cleanup and Recycling""
- ""Experiment 3: Your First Circuit""""What You Will Need""; ""Setup""; ""Fundamentals: Decoding Resistors""; ""Lighting an LED""; ""Checking a Resistor""; ""Background: Puzzling Numbers""; ""Cleanup and Recycling""; ""Experiment 4: Variable Resistance""; ""What You Will Need""; ""Look Inside Your Potentiometer""; ""Testing the Potentiometer""; ""Caution: Don't Add Power""; ""Caution: Destructive Experiment Ahead""; ""Dimming Your LED""; ""Measuring Potential Difference""; ""Checking the Flow""; ""Caution: Meter Overload""; ""Checking the Current""; ""Making Measurements""
- ""Fundamentals: Ohm's Law""""Fundamentals: Series and Parallel""; ""Using Ohm's Law""; ""How Big a Resistor?""; ""Background: Hot Wires""; ""Fundamentals: Decimals""; ""Theory: The Math on Your Tongue""; ""Background: The Watt""; ""Background: The Origins of Wattage""; ""Cleanup and Recycling""; ""Experiment 5: Let's Make a Battery""; ""What You Will Need""; ""Setup""; ""Lemon Test: Part One""; ""Theory: The Nature of Electricity""; ""Background: Positive and Negative""; ""Theory: Basic Measurements""; ""Practically Speaking""; ""Cleanup and Recycling""; ""Chapter 2. Switching""
- ""Necessary Items for Chapter Two""""Essential: Small Screwdrivers""; ""Essential: Small Long-Nosed Pliers""; ""Optional: Sharp-Nosed Pliers""; ""Essential: Wire Cutters""; ""Optional: Flush Cutters""; ""Essential: Wire Strippers""; ""Essential: Breadboards""; ""Supplies""; ""Essential: Hookup Wire""; ""Jumpers""; ""Optional: Stranded Wire""; ""Components""; ""Essential: Toggle Switch""; ""Essential: Tactile Switch""; ""Essential: Relay""; ""Essential: Trimmer Potentiometer""; ""Essential: Transistors""; ""Essential: Capacitors""; ""Essential: Resistors""; ""Essential: Loudspeaker""
- ""And More?""
