Part One Reading Material 1
Ⅰ.Mathematics 1
Ⅰ-1 NUMBERS AND LITERAL SYMBOLS 1
Ⅰ-2 FUNDAMENTAL LAWSOF ALGEBRA 3
Ⅰ-3 OPERATIONS WITH ZERO 6
Ⅰ-4 EXPONENTS 6
Ⅰ-5 APPLICATIONS OF EQUATIONS 7
Ⅰ-6 APPLICATIONS OF THE INDEFINITE INTEGRAL 9
Ⅰ-7 AREAS BY INTEGRATION 12
Ⅰ-8 VOLUMES BY INTEGRATION 15
Ⅰ-9 MACLAURIN SERIES 19
Ⅰ-10 TAYLOR'S SERIES 23
Ⅰ-11 FOURIER SERIES 24
Ⅰ-12 SOLUTIONS OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS 30
Ⅰ-13 SEPARATION OF VARIABLES 32
Ⅰ-14 INTEGRABLE COMBINATIONS 34
Ⅰ-15 THE LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION OF THE FIRST ORDER 36
Ⅰ-16 ELEMENTARY ApPLICATIONS 38
Ⅱ.Physics 43
Ⅱ-1 SCIENCE IN TODAY'S WORLD 43
Ⅱ-2 THE CONTENT OF PHYSICS 46
Ⅱ-3 CURRENT，RESISTANCE，AND ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE 54
Ⅱ-4 DIRECT-CURRENT CIRCUITS 78
Ⅱ-5 ALTERNATING CURRENTS 84
Ⅲ.Basic Electronics 102
Ⅲ-1 NONLINEAR COMPONENTS 102
Ⅲ-2 RECTIFIER CIRCUITS 105
Ⅲ-3 FILTERS 107
Ⅲ-4 VOLTAGE REGULATORS 111
Ⅲ-5 DIODE CIRCUITS 116
Ⅲ-6 THE OPERATING POINT 118
Ⅲ-7 FET AMPLIFIERS 124
Ⅲ-8 JUNCTION-TRANSISTOR AMPLIFIER 127
Ⅲ-9 JUNCTION-TRANSISTOR CIRCUITS 133
Ⅳ.Electronic Computers 138
Ⅳ-1 THE COMPUTER CHALLENGE 138
Ⅳ-2 COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 139
Ⅳ-3 COMPUTER CAPABILITIES AND LIMITATIONS 140
Ⅳ-4 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE，ORGANIZATION，AND IMPLEMENTATION 140
Ⅳ-5 COMPUTER HARDWARE：BASIC ELEMENTS 142
Ⅳ-6 COMPUTER SOFTWARE：INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING 145
Ⅳ-7 ARCHITECTURES FOR OPERAND ADDRESSING 151
Ⅳ-8 ADDRESS SPECIFICATION AND MANIPULATION 158
Ⅳ-9 THE STAGES OF PROCESSING INSTRUCTIONS IN A COMPUTER 166
Ⅳ-10 THE SYMBOLIC ASSEMBLER：A PROGRAMMING AID 169
Ⅴ.Prefaces and Abstracts 173
Ⅴ-1 PREFACES 173
Ⅴ-2 ABSTRACTS 175
Part Two Notes to the Reading Material 177
Part Three Glossary 218