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List of Examples

Preface

Chapter 1 Circuit Variables

 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

 Summary

 Problems

Chapter 2 Circuit Etements

 Practical Perspective: Electrical Safety

 2.1 Vottage and Current Sources

 2.2 Electrical Resistance (Ohm's Law)

 2.3 Construction of a Circuit Mode!

 2.4 Kirchhoff's Laws

 2.5 Analysis of a Circuit Containing Dependent

 Sources

 Practical Perspective: Electrical Safety

 Summary

 Problems

Chapter 3 Slmpte Resistive Circuits

 Practical Perspective: A Rear Window Defroster

 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 DeRa-to-Wye (Pi-to-Tee) Equivalent Circuits

 Practical Perspective: A Rear Window

 Defroster

 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 TransformaUons

 4.10 Thevenin and Norton Equivalents

 4.11 Hare on Deriving a Thevenin Equiva|ent

 4.12 Maximum Power Transfer

 4.13 Superposition

 Practical Perspective: Circuits with Realistic

 Resistors

 Summary

 Problems

Chapter 5 The Operational Amplifier

 Practical Perspective: Strain 6ages

 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 Hare Realistic Mode[ for the Operational

 Amplifier

 Practical Perspective: Strain Gages

 Summary

 Problems

Chapter 6 Inductance, apacitance, and Mutual Inductance

Chapter 7 Response of First-Order Rl and RC Circuits

Chapter 8 Natural and Step Responses of RLC Circuits

Chapter 9 Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis

Chapter 10 Sinusoidal Steady-State Power Calculations

Chapter 11 Balanced Three-Phase Circuits

Chapter 12 Introduction to the Laplace Transform

Chapter 13 The Laplace Transform in Circuit Analysis

Chapter 14 Introduction to Frequency Selective Citrcuits

Chapter 15 Active Filter Circuits

Chapter 16 Fourier Series

Chapter 17 The Fourier Transform

Chapter 18 Two-Port Circuits

Appendix A The Solution of Linear Simultaneous Equations

Appendix B Complex Numberss

Appendix C More on Magnetically Coupled Coils and Ideal Transformers

Appendix D The Decible

Appendix E Bode Diagrams

Appendix F An Abbreviated Table of Trigonometric Indentities

Appendix G An Abbreviated Table of Integrals

Appendix H Answers to Selected Problems

Index