Extensively revised and updated, this text provides a comprehensive treatment of fundamental principles of electronics and their applications and also reflects the progress in the field of electronics. The text is circuit-oriented but supplies the physical fundamentals to understand the solid state devices. The book explains devices and their circuit applications, modular circuits including operational amplifiers, integrated circuits and logic circuits. Fundamental operations such as feedback, frequency response, modulation, frequency conversion, rectification and control and digital switching have been dealt with exhaustively. It is an ideal text for courses in basic electronics. Table of contents preface. Conduction in the solid state. Diodes as circuit elements. The bipolar transistor and the fet. Active networks and transistors. The feedback principle. Bias for transistor amplifiers. Frequency response of linear amplifiers. The operational amplifier. Applications of the operational amplifier. Tuned and wide-band amplifiers. Power amplifiers. Oscillator principles. Modulation and frequency conversion. Digital circuits. Digital switching using integrated circuits. Rectification and control. The vacuum tube. Appendices. Index. - from Amzon