Publisher's Synopsis
Stressing the physical principles and their practical implementation - rather than mathematical and technical detail - this second edition aims to reflect the large number of technical developments that have taken place in the microelectronic device industry since 1981. The book is essentially a collection of topics in electronics and physics which are the basis of the modern electronic instrumentation used in physical, chemical, biological and medical research. Descriptions of specific circuits have been avoided because of the short market lifetime of most instruments, and the "electronic building blocks" approach has been adopted instead so that any instrument can be analysed on a functional basis.
