Acknowledgments ix Acknowledgments This book owes a great deal to the mental energy of several generations of scholars. As an undergraduate at the University of Cape Town, Francis Wilson made me aware of the importance of migrant labour and Robin Hallett inspired me, and a generation of students, to study the African past. At the School of Oriental and African Studies in London I was fortunate enough to have David Birmingham as a thesis supervisor. I hope that some of his knowledge and understanding
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CMOS Analog Circuit Design (2nd Ed.) Homework Solutions : 9/20/2002 1 Chapter 1 Homework Solutions 1.1-1 Using Eq. (1) of Sec 1.1, give the base-10 value for the 5-bit binary number 11010 (b4 b3 b2 b1 b0 ordering). From Eq. (1) of Sec 1.1 we have bN-1 2 + b N-2 2 + bN-3 2 + ...+ b0 2-N = -1 -2 -3 ∑bN-i2-i i=1 N 1 1 0 1 0 1 × 2-1 + 1× 2-2 + 0 × 2-3 + 1 × 2-4 + 0 × 2-5 = 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 = 16 + 8 + 0 + 2 + 0 26 13 = 32 = 16 32 1.1-2 Process the sinusoid in Fig. P1.2 through
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Higher Engineering Mathematics In memory of Elizabeth Higher Engineering Mathematics Sixth Edition John Bird, BSc (Hons), CMath, CEng, CSci, FIMA, FIET, MIEE, FIIE, FCollT AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON • NEW YORK • OXFORD PARIS • SAN DIEGO • SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Newnes is an imprint of Elsevier Newnes is an imprint of Elsevier The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, UK 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA
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NOTE: This PDF document has a handy set of “bookmarks” for it, which are accessible by pressing the Bookmarks tab on the left side of this window. ***************************************************** We are the last. The last generation to be unaugmented. The last generation to be intellectually alone. The last generation to be limited by our bodies. We are the first. The first generation to be augmented. The first generation to be intellectually together. The first generation to be limited
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