'The XYZ's of using an oscilloscope'

[Nick]

An excellent 37-page booklet by Tektronix on the basics of using a 'scope can be viewed or downloaded from this link: http://www.callx.co.uk/Shared/XYZs_of_Using_a_Scope.pdf

FWIW, there are loads of variants of this document - Tektronix continuously updated it every year, depending on new models & changing technologies - e.g. early versions were 5xx series analogue, then 4xx, then 5xxx & 7xxx, then 22xx & 24xx and now the later versions have little or no analogue content - its all digital sampling theory....

You can always download the latest version (and other useful Tektronix tutorials) from http://www.tek.com/learning/oscilloscope-tutorial (you will need to set up a Tektronix login - this is free and only takes a couple of minutes...)

A quick Google finds nearly 3,000 pdfs on the interwebby with that name, of which a fair few are different versions...

Its a good document, and early versions (which are more relevant here) are worth archiving, but there are already a whole bunch out there !!