本书内容包括三部分：第一部分直流稳态电路，包括第1章到第5章，主要阐述电路的基本概念、基本定律、基本电路元件；重点介绍电路的基本分析方法和电路的基本定理。第二部分简单动态电路，包括第6章和第7章，主要介绍电容和电感元件的动态特性，介绍一阶电路的基本分析方法。第三部分包括第8章到第12章，重点阐述正弦稳态电路分析的相量法应用，介绍交流电路功率的基本概念，阐述三相电路和磁耦合电感电路的基本分析方法。本书的编写原则：语言组织力图简洁，内容选用力图基础和必要；在提高理论联系实际的能力方面，各章节附有不同的实验设计和理论研讨内容可供拓深基本概念，同时本书最后附有必要的数学基础知识，以方便学生复习。

Chapter 1 Lumped Circuits and Kirchhoff's Laws
1.1 Lumped Circuits
1.2 Charge, Voltage and Current
1.3 Reference Directions
1.4 Kirchhoff's Laws
1.4.1 Network Topology
1.4.2 Kirchhoff's Current Law (KCL)
1.4.3 Kirchhoff's Voltage Law (KVL)
Summary
Drills
Discussion
Chapter 2 Circuit Elements
2.1 Resistors
2.1.1 Resistor
2.1.2 Linear Resistors and Ohm's law
2.2 Independent Sources
2.2.1 The Ideal Independent Voltage Source
2. 2.2 The Ideal Independent Current Source
2.2.3 Ideal Dependent (Controlled) Sources
2.3 Power
2.3.1 Power and Its Direction
2.3.2 Power Entering a Resistor
Summary
Drills
Experiment
Chapter 3 Simple Circuits
3. 1 Series Resistors and Voltage Division
3.1.1 Equivalent Circuit
3.1.2 Series Resistors
3. 1.3 The Voltage-Divider Circuit
3.2 Parallel Resistors and Current Division
3. 2.1 Parallel Resistors
3. 2.2 The Current-Divider Circuit
3. 2. 3 Series and Parallel Connection of Resistors
3.3 Source Transformation
3.3.1 Series or Parallel Connection of Voltage Sources
3.3 . 2 Series or Parallel Connection of Current Sources
3.3.3 Voltage Source in Parallel with a T wo Terminal Circuit
3.3.4 Current Source in Series with a Two Terminal Circuit
3.3.5 Source Transformation
Summary
Drills
Discussion
Chapter 4 Techniques of Circuit Analysis
4.1 Nodal Analysis
4.2 Nodal Analysis with Voltage Sources
4. 2. 1 Nodal Analysis with Independent Voltage Source Branch
4.2.2 Nodal Analysis with Controlled Sources
4.3 Mesh Analysis
4.4 Mesh Analysis with Current Sources
4.5 The Nodal versus Mesh Analysis
Summary
Drills
Discussion
Chapter 5 Circuit Theorems
5.1 Substitution Theorem
5.2 Linearity Property
5.3 Superposition Theorem
5.4 Thevenin's and Norton's Theorem
5.4.1 Thevenin's Theorem
5.4.2 Norton's Theorem
5.5 Maximum Power Transfer Theorem
Summary
Drills
Experiment
Chapter 6 Capacitors and Inductors
6.1 Capacitors
6. 1. 1 Linear Time-invariant Capacitors
6. 1.2 Current-voltage Relationship of Linear Capacitors
6.1.3 Important Properties of Capacitors
6.2 Series and Parallel Capacitors
6.3 Inductors
6.3 . 1 Linear Time-invariant Inductors
6. 3. 2 Voltage-current Relationship of Linear Inductors
6.3.3 Important Properties of Inductors
6.4 Series and Parallel Inductors
6.5 Energy Stored in Capacitor and Inductor
6.5.1 Energy Stored in Capacitors
6.5.2 Energy Stored in Inductors
Summary
Drills
Discussion
Chapter 7 First-order Circuits
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Zero-input Response
7. 2. 1 Zero-input Response of RC Circuits
7.2.2 Zero-input Response of RL Circuits
7.2.3 Summary of Zero-input Response
7.3 Zero-state Response
7.4 Complete Response
Summary
Drills
Experiment
Chapter 8 Sinusoids and Phasors
8.1 Sinusoids
8.1.1 Sinusoids
8. 1. 2 Phase Relationships of the Same Frequency Sinusoid
8.1.3 Effective Value
8.2 Sinusoidal Steady-state Response
8.3 Phasor Method
8.3.1 Review of Complex Numbers
8.3.2 Phasor Method
8.4 Kirchhoff's Laws in Phasor Domain
8.5 Phasor Relationships for Circuit Elements
8. 5. 1 Voltage-Current Relationship in Phasor Domain for Resistor
8.5.2 Voltage-Current Relationship in Phasor Domain for Inductor
8. 5. 3 Voltage-Current Relationship in Phasor Domain for Capacitor
8.6 Impedance and Admittance
8. 6.1 Impedance and Admittance
8. 6. 2 Impedance and Admittance of RLC Series Branch
8.6.3 Impedance Combinations
8.6 . 4 Equivalent Model of Passive Networks
Summary
Drills
Experiment
Chapter 9 Sinusoidal Steady-state Analysis
9.1 Nodal Analysis
9.2 Mesh Analysis
9.3 Superposition Theorem
9.4 Source Transformation
9.5 Thevenin and Norton