PartⅠ Electricity Chapter1 Current Electricity ... 11 1.1 Fundamental Overview ... 11 1.2 Electrical Change ... 14 1.3 Electrical Current and materials ... 15 1.4 Electrical Force (Voltage) and ground ... 20 Chapter2 Electrical System ... 22 Chapter3 Basic Elements ... 25 3.1 Resistor ... 25 3.2 Capacitors ... 29 3.3 Inductor and Transformer ... 32 Chapter4 Basic Concepts of Theorem ... 34 4.1 Ohm’s Law ... 34 4.2 Kirchhoff’s Current Law (KCL) ... 35 4.3 Kichhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL) ... 37 4.4 Thevenin’s and Norton’s Theorem ... 38 4.5 Superposition’s Theorem ... 42 PartⅡ Electronics Chapter5 Solid State Devices Development ... 45 5.1 History of Solid State development ... 45 5.2 Understaning How It Works ... 48 5.3 Toward Manufacturing Transistors ... 51 5.4 Toward an Integrated Circuit ... 54 5.5 The First MOSFET ... 57 Chapter6 Physical Electronics and Diode ... 60 6.1 N-type and P-type Semiconductor for Diode ... 60 6.2 PN-Junction construction ... 63 6.3 PN Diode ... 66 Chapter7 Devices for LSI, VLSI, and VLSI ... 68 7.1 Bipolar Transistor ... 68 7.2 MOSFET ... 71 7.3 Gordon Moore’s Law about electronics development ... 74 Chapter8 Electronics Industry ... 76 8.1 Overview ... 76 8.2 Electronic Parts and Consumer Electronics ... 77 8.3 Industrial Electronics ... 79 Chapter9 Control ... 81 9.1 Overview ... 81 9.2 Historical Review ... 82 9.3 The Control System ... 84 PartⅢ Information and Communications Chapter10 Communications ... 88 10.1 History of Communications ... 88 10.2 Overview of Communication systems ... 95 10.3 Source of Information ... 97 Chapter11 Communication Channels ... 99 11.1 Primary Communication Resources ... 99 11.2 Telephone Channels ... 100 11.3 Optical fiber ... 102 11.4 Mobile Radio Channel ... 104 11.5 Satellite channel ... 105 Chapter12 Analog and Digital Communications ... 108 12.1 Analog Communications ... 18 12.2 Digital Communications ... 110 12.3 Networks ... 113 Chapter13 Optical Communications ... 116 13.1 Background ... 116 13.2 Advantages of Optical Communications ... 118 Chapter14 Mobile Information Society ... 121 14.1 Overview of Mobile Information Society ... 121 14.2 IMT-2000 Technologies ... 123 14.3 IMT-2000 Services ... 127 PartⅣ Digital Broadcasting and Animation Chapter15 Digital Broadcasting ... 132 15.1 History of Television ... 132 15.2 Color Television ... 141 15.3 Digital Television ... 143 Chapter16 Computer Animation ... 145 16.1 History of Animation ... 145 16.2 How to obtain Animation Effects ... 147 PartⅤ Computer Chapter17 History and Development ... 154 17.1 Overview ... 154 17.2 Early Computing Machines and Inventors ... 155 17.3 First Generation(1945-1956) ... 160 17.4 Second Generation Computers(1956-1963) ... 162 17.5 Third Generation Computers(1964-1971) ... 165 17.6 Fourth Generation(1971-Present) ... 166 17.7 Fifth Generation(Present and Beyond) ... 168 Chapter18 Hardware ... 171 18.1 Your Personal Conputer Hardware ... 173 18.2 Input ... 175 18.3 The Processor and Memory ... 176 18.4 Output : What comes out ... 178 18.5 Secondary Storage ... 179 18.6 The Complete Hardware System ... 180 Chapter19 Software ... 182 19.1 Applications Software ... 183 19.2 Operating Systems : Hidden Software ... 184 19.3 Operation Systems for Personal Computers ... 188 Chapter20 Classifications of Computers ... 190 20.1 Supercomputers ... 190 20.2 Maniframes ... 191 20.3 Personal Computers ... 193 20.4 Notebook Computers ... 195 20.5 Smaller Still : Personal Digital Assistants ... 195 PartⅥ Internet Chapter21 Internet History ... 198 21.1 The Internet as a Phenomenon ... 198 21.2 Don’t Know Much about History ... 199 Chapter22 Internet ... 203 22.1 Getting Stated ... 203 22.2 Searching the Internet ... 205 Appendix1. ... 212 Resume ... 212 Appendix2. ... 216 Family Census Resisters ... 216 Appendix3. ... 220 Patent ... 220 Appendix4. ... 226 User Manual for HP8590 Series Spectrum Analyzers ... 226 Getting Started ... 226 Getting Acquainted with the Analyzer ... 227 Screen Annotation ... 241 Menu and Softkey Overview ... 244 Making a Measurement ... 246 Measurement Summary ... 250 Improving Accuracy with Self-Calibration Routines ... 252 Memory Card Insertion and Battery Replaxement ... 258 Analyzer Battery Information ... 262