Hughes electrical and electronic technology

• Publisher: Pearson
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1025
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This best-selling textbook, now in its eleventh edition, provides the clear and accessible introduction to electrical and electronic technology that all engineering students need. With a balanced coverage of electrical, electronic, and power engineering,Hughes Electrical and Electronic Technology is a must-have text for all university and college engineering students, including those not studying for an electrical or electronic degree. It is also appropriate as a reference for practitioners and technicians working in this, or any other engineering discipline.
This edition has been significantly updated to include more on green topics like renewable energy and smart grid systems, and on technological advances such as particle accelerators. Key features include chapter objectives and summaries plus worked examples and numerous practice problems.

✦ Table of Contents

Prefaces xvii

Section 1 Electrical Principles 1
1 International System of Measurement 3
2 Introduction to Electrical Systems 12
3 Simple DC Circuits 30
4 Network Theorems 61
5 Capacitance and Capacitors 96
6 Electromagnetism 136
7 Simple Magnetic Circuits 151
8 Inductance in a DC Circuit 166
9 Alternating Voltage and Current 201
10 Single-phase Series Circuits 226
11 Single-phase Parallel Networks 247
12 Power in AC Circuits 263
13 Complex Notation 277
14 Resonance in AC Circuits 302
15 Network Theorems Applied to AC Networks 325

Section 2 Electronic Engineering 353
16 Electronic Systems 355
17 Passive Filters 362
18 Amplifier Equivalent Networks 391
19 Semiconductor Materials 411
20 Rectifiers 423
21 Junction Transistor Amplifiers 437
22 FET Amplifiers 468
23 Further Semiconductor Amplifiers 478
24 Interfacing Digital and Analogue Systems 494
25 Digital Numbers 512
26 Digital Systems 527
27 Signals 565
28 Data Transmission and Signals 584
29 Communications 596
30 Fibreoptics 609

Section 3 Power Engineering 619
31 Multiphase Systems 621
32 Transformers 642
33 Introduction to Machine Theory 676
34 AC Synchronous Machine Windings 698
35 Characteristics of AC Synchronous Machines 711
36 Induction Motors 722
37 Electrical Energy Systems 753
38 Power Systems 802
39 Direct-current Machines 827
40 Direct-current Motors 841
41 Control System Motors 858
42 Motor Selection and Efficiency 868
43 Power Electronics 887

Section 4 Measurements, Sensing and Actuation 905
44 Control Systems, Sensors and Actuators 907
45 Electronic Measuring Instruments and Devices 922
46 Analogue Measuring Instruments 945

Appendix: Symbols, Abbreviations, Definitions and Diagrammatic Symbols 969
Answers to Exercises 974
Index 985