Electronics Technology Fundamentals: Electron Flow Version, 3rd edition

For courses in DC Circuits, AC Circuits, and Electronic Devices.

Electronic Technology Fundamentals, 3e was written to fulfill the need to address the constant development of new applications and technologies within a single text that presents the fundamentals of electronics (dc circuits, ac circuits, and devices). This unique text provides complete and concise coverage of the fundamentals of electronics without redundant examples and the equation derivations that take up so much space in traditional books. With an emphasis on component and circuit operation, analysis, applications, and testing, this text thoroughly explores the foundation of dc circuits, ac circuits, discrete electronic devices and op-amps in a narrative that students can understand. Many of today’s basic electronics textbooks provide in-depth coverage of dc and ac circuits, but little more than introductory-level coverage of electronic devices and circuits.  Unlike these books, Electronics Technology Fundamentals, 3e covers electronic devices and circuits as thoroughly as it does dc and ac circuits, making it the most comprehensive electronics fundamentals textbook on the market.

Hallmark Features

• Performance-based objectives provide a handy overview of the chapter organization and a map to student learning.
• Objective identifiers in the margins cross-reference the objectives with the material contained in the chapter. 
• This helps students to locate the material needed to fulfill a given objective.
• In-chapter practice problems included in most examples provide students with an immediate opportunity to apply the principles and procedures being demonstrated.
• Summary illustrations provide a convenient description of circuit operating principles and applications.
• Many also provide comparisons between related circuits.
• Margin notes throughout the text:
• Highlight differences between theory and practice
• Provide reminders of principles covered in earlier sections or chapters.
• In-Chapter Progress Checks. Each section of the text ends with a series of review questions that provide students with the opportunity to gauge their learning.
• Critical thinking questions.
• These questions, incorporated into many of the progress checks, challenge the students to think beyond the scope of the discussions.
• Practice Problems.
• An extensive set of practice problems appears at the end of each chapter.
• In addition to standard practice problems, most of the problem sets include problems relating to previous chapters (Looking Back) and challengers (Pushing the Envelope).
• List of key terms conclude each chapter
• Providing students with the page number where each term is first introduced for quick and convenient reference.
• Companion website at www.prenhall.com/paynter
• Contains chap

• A discussion on precision, accuracy, and degree of certainty has been added to the Introduction.
• New sections introduce the reader to component testing and fault symptoms in series circuits, parallel circuits, and op-amp circuits.
• Added or expanded coverage of many components and circuits, including rheostats, MOVs, thermistors, photoconductive cells, relays, solenoids, capacitor equivalent series resistance (ESR), filter phase shift, active filter operation, and relaxation oscillators.