This book, the second text in the Prentice Hall “Exploring” Series, builds upon the principles covered in its predecessor, Exploring Electricity. It provides strong, technician-level coverage of semiconductor devices and circuits, guiding students from semiconductor theory and circuits to a thorough understanding of a complete electronic system. Devoted to the students' needs and perspective, Merchant's reader-friendly style conveys the fundamentals of electronics with simple vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure that make the text accessible and comprehensible to students with highly diversified educational, technical and cultural backgrounds.