Electronics Calculations Data Handbook

Preface

This book began life as a selection of tables for electronics engineers. Dealing with such common requirements as setting op-amp gains, forming non-standard resistor values from standard pairs and setting CR time constants, it was my hope that such a book would find common favour.

In writing explanatory notes to accompany these tables, I found myself constantly wondering how much knowledge to assume on the part of the reader. After all, the book should be as useful to a beginner as to a professional with 20 years of experience.

The time came to make a decision, and Part One was born. In it I have attempted to go from first principles to the point where the reader can hope to understand the workings of the circuits discussed in Parts ...