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CHAPTER 1 Circuit Variables
Practical Perspective: Balancing Power
1.1 Electrical Engineering: An Overview
1.2 The International System of Units
1.3 Circuit Analysis: An Overview
1.4 Voltage and Current
1.5 The Ideal Basic Circuit Element
1.6 Power and Energy
Practical Perspective: Balancing Power
Summary
Problems
CHAPTER 2 Circuit Elements
Practical Perspective: Heating with Electric Radiators
2.1 Voltage and Current Sources
2.2 Electrical Resistance (Ohm’s Law)
2.3 Constructing a Circuit Model
2.4 Kirchhoff’s La
2.5 Analyzing a Circuit Containing Dependent Sources
Practical Perspective: Heating with Electric Radiators
Summary
Problems
CHAPTER 3 Simple Resistive Circuits
Practical Perspective: Resistive Touch Screens
3.1 Resistors in Series
3.2 Resistors in Parallel
3.3 The Voltage-Divider and Current-Divider Circuits
3.4 Voltage Division and Current Division
3.5 Measuring Voltage and Current
3.6 Measuring Resistance—The Wheatstone Bridge
3.7 Delta-to-Wye (Pi-to-Tee) Equivalent Circuits
Practical Perspective: Resistive Touch Screens
Summary
Problems
CHAPTER 4 Techniques of Circuit Analysis
Practical Perspective: Circuits with Realistic Resistors
4.1 Terminology
4.2 Introduction to the Node-Voltage Method
4.3 The Node-Voltage Method and Dependent Sources
4.4 The Node-Voltage Method: Some Special Cases
4.5 Introduction to the Mesh-Current Method
4.6 The Mesh-Current Method and Dependent Sources
4.7 The Mesh-Current Method: Some Special Cases
4.8 The Node-Voltage Method Versus the Mesh-Current Method
4.9 Source Transformations
4.10 Thévenin and Norton Equivalents
4.11 More on Deriving the Thévenin Equivalent
4.12 Maximum Power Transfer
4.13 Superposition
Practical Perspective: Circuits with Realistic Resistors
Summary
Problems
CHAPTER 5 The Operational Amplifier
Practical Perspective: Sensors
5.1 Operational Amplifier Terminals
5.2 Terminal Voltages and Currents
5.3 The Inverting-Amplifier Circuit
5.4 The Summing-Amplifier Circuit
5.5 The Noninverting-Amplifier Circuit
5.6 The Difference-Amplifier Circuit
5.7 A More Realistic Model for the Operational Amplifier
Practical Perspective: Sensors
Summary
Problems
CHAPTER 6 Inductance, Capacitance, and Mutual Inductance
Practical Perspective: Capacitive Touch Screens
6.1 The Inductor
6.2 The Capacitor
6.3 Series-Parallel Combinations of Inductance and Capacitance
6.4 Mutual Inductance
6.5 A Closer Look at Mutual Inductance
Practical Perspective: Capacitive Touch Screens
Summary
Problems
CHAPTER 7 Response of First-Order RL and RC Circuits
Practical Perspective: Artificial Pacemaker
7.1 The Natural Response of an RL Circuit
7.2 The Natural Response of an RC Circuit
7.3 The Step Response of RL and RC Circuits
7.4 A General Solution for Step and Natural Responses
7.5 Sequential Switching
7.6 Unbounded Response
7.7 The Integrating Amplifier
Practical Perspective: Artificial Pacemaker
Summary
Problems
CHAPTER 8 Natural and Step Responses of RLC Circuits
Practical Perspective: Clock for Computer Timing
8.1 Introduction to the Natural Response of a Parallel RLC Circuit
8.2 The Forms of the Natural Response of a Parallel RLC Circuit
8.3 The Step Response of a Parallel RLC Circuit
8.4 The Natural and Step Response of a Series RLC Circuit
8.5 A Circuit with Two Integrating Amplifiers
Practical Perspective: Clock for Computer Timing
Summary
Problems
CHAPTER 9 Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis
Practical Perspective: A Household Distribution Circuit
9.1 The Sinusoidal Source
9.2 The Sinusoidal Response
9.3 The Phasor
9.4 The Passive Circuit Elements in the Frequency Domain
9.5 Kirchhoff’s La in the Frequency Domain
9.6 Series, Parallel, a