Electrical Circuit Theory and Technology, 6th ed

✍ Scribed by John O Bird

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 859
• Edition: 6ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A fully comprehensive text for courses in electrical principles, circuit theory and electrical technology, providing 800 worked examples and over 1,350 further problems for students to work through at their own pace. This book is ideal for students studying engineering for the first time as part of BTEC National and other pre-degree vocational courses, as well as Higher Nationals, Foundation Degrees and first-year undergraduate modules.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Preface
Revisionary Mathematics
Section 1 Basic Electrical Engineering Principles
Units associated with basic electrical quantities
An introduction to electric circuits
Resistance variation
Batteries and alternative sources of energy
Series and parallel networks
Capacitors and capacitance
Magnetic circuits. Electromagnetism
Electromagnetic induction
Electrical measuring instruments and measurements
Semiconductor diodes
Transistors
Main formulae for Part 1
Section 2 Electrical Principles and Technology
D.c. circuit theory
Alternating voltages and currents
Single-phase series a.c. circuits
Single-phase parallel a.c. circuits
D.c. transients
Operational amplifiers
Three phase systems
Transformers
D.c. machines
Three-phase induction motors
Main formulae for Part 2
Part 3 Advanced Circuit Theory and Technology
Revision of complex numbers
Application of complex numbers to series a.c. circuits
Application of complex numbers to parallel a.c. circuits
Power in a.c. circuits
A.c. bridges
Series resonance and Q-factor
Parallel resonance and Q-factor
Introduction to network analysis
Mesh-current and nodal analysis
The superposition theorem
Thevenin's and Norton's theorems
Delta-star and star-delta transformations
Maximum power transfer theorems and impedance matching
Complex waveforms
A numerical method of harmonic analysis
Magnetic materials
Dielectrics and dielectric loss
Field theory
Attenuators
Filter networks
Magnetically coupled circuits
Transmission lines
Transients and Laplace transforms
Main formulae for Part 3
Part 4 General reference
Standard electrical quantities - their symbols and units
Greek alphabet
Common prefixes
Resistor colour coding and ohmic values
Index.

✦ Subjects

Electric circuits;Electrical engineering;TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mechanical