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First published 2003

Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge

Typeface Times NR MT 10.5/14 pt System QuarkXPress [se]

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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data

Hamilton, Scott, 1932 An analog electronics companion / Scott Hamilton. p. cm.Includes bibliographical references and index.

TK7816. H35 2001

621.381 dc21 2001043081

ISBN 0 521 79838 8 hardback

To Laura,

for her encouragement, support and tolerance

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

JOHANNES WOLFGANG GOETHE (1749 1832)