Books

I have written OER textbooks and lab manuals for most of my classes. Each one is featured on this page.

Coming Soon

Summer 2024: Conceptual Physics textbook

Fall 2024: digital systems lab manual

License Information

These books are licensed under creative commons as CC-BY-SA-NC. This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org.

This license (CC-BY-SA-NC) includes the following elements:

  • BY – Credit must be given to the creator (Alyssa J. Pasquale, Ph.D.)
  • NC – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted
  • SA – Adaptations must be shared under the same terms

Lab Manuals

Textbooks

Microcontrollers by Alyssa J. Pasquale, Ph.D.

Microcontrollers

This book covers microcontrollers with a focus on the ATmega328P microcontroller (both with and without the Arduino Uno platform), programming in C and assembly. Topics include microcontroller fundamentals, parallel and serial I/O, memory and memory addressing, analog to digital conversion, interrupts, clock and timer/counters, and basic PI control systems and feedback.

Digital Systems by Alyssa J. Pasquale, Ph.D.

Digital Systems

This book covers the principles of digital logic design and includes example circuits using the 7400 series of TTL logic chips. Topics include number systems and conversions, binary arithmetic, Boolean algebra, expression simplification (K-maps, Quine-McCluskey), circuit optimization, timing, logic devices (MUX, decoders, etc.), sequential circuits, registers and counters, and finite state machines.

Circuit Analysis by Alyssa J. Pasquale, Ph.D.

Circuit Analysis

This book covers linear analog circuit design. Topics include circuit laws and theorems (Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s laws, source transformation, superposition, Thevenin and Norton’s theorems), operational amplifiers, capacitance and inductance, RL and RC circuits, second order circuits, phasor transforms, AC power, Laplace transforms, transient and steady-state analysis.

Circuit Analysis Solutions by Alyssa J. Pasquale, Ph.D.

Circuit Analysis Solutions

This book contains step-by-step instructions to solve each of the end of chapter examples in the Circuit Analysis textbook.