... see it
78–79 Light and bubbles
80–81 Mirror,
82–83 Lenses
84–85 How light works
86–87 Fireworks
88–89 Measuring sound
90–91 How ears hear
92–93 Electric guitar
Bits and bytes
94–95 Bits and ... tracks
Air and water
42–43 Gases and liquids
44–45 How fluids work
46–47 Float that boat
48–49 Floating balloons
50–51 Roller coaster
52–53 How do planes fly?
54–55 Blastoff!
What is energy...
... IC.
18-pin in-line ICs.
HOW ELECTRONIC THINGS
WORK . . . AND WHAT TO
DO WHEN THEY DON’T
DETAILED CONTENTS
ix
Chapter 1 Introduction to very basic electronics “101”
How resistors work
●
Reading resistor ... operation 195
7 How video cameras and camcorders work 227
8 Wired telephones, cordless phones, answering machines,
and cellular phone systems 259
9 How remote-control system...
... different antenna types, shapes and sizes,
and their applications
Wireless Communications
How Antennas Work
18
Summary
•
Gain occurs when a signal is amplified or when most
of the signal’s energy ... directional
11
Antenna Sizes and Shapes (continued)
12
Antenna Sizes and Shapes (continued)
17
How Antennas Work
•
Understanding antennas requires in-depth knowledge
of physics, mathem...
... group work, strategies to foster and stimulate
English language use in group work, difficulties teachers experienced when implementing group
work and difficulties students experienced when working ... chosen group work activities and students’ expectation
The data in Figure 8 shows the comparison of teachers’ answer and students’ answer about the
activities selected for group work. A...
... desktop!
Good things to put here: favorite programs; disks on the network to which you often
connect; a document you're working on every day; and so on.
Folder and disk icons here work just ... connecting to networked disks. Park your other computers' hard drive
icons here, as described in Chapter 12
, and you shave several steps off the usual
connecting-via-network ritual....
... came.
Tip: If, while working on a document, you see a tiny dot in the center of the Close button,
Mac OS X is trying to tell you that you haven't yet saved your work. The dot goes away ...
One classic example is the Go Go to Folder command (Shift- -G). It
brings up a box like the one shown here.
The purpose of this box is to let you jump directly to a certain folder on your
Mac...
... Section 1.2.10
.)
GEM IN THE ROUGH
How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?
The status bar shows you disk-space information for the entire disk, but not how
much disk space this particular window's ...
This little item, new in Leopard, appears when you choose View Show Path Bar. It's
a tiny map at the bottom of the window that shows where you are in the folder hierarchy.
If i...
... Microprocessor Works
52
Part
3:
How
Software
Works
72
Chapter 6
How Programming Languages
Work
86
Chapter 7
How Windows Works
96
Chapter 8
How Software Applications
Do
Your
Work
106
GETTING
TO
KNOW
THE
HARDWARE
11
handy ... Input/Output
Devices
Chapter
14
How Energy
Turns
into Data
Chapter 15
How Computer
Ports
Work
208
Chapter 16
How a Computer Display Works
21
8
Chapter...