This reliable text helps students learn electrical-engineering fundamentals with minimal frustration. Its goals are to present basic concepts in a general setting, to show students how the principles of electrical engineering apply to specific problems in their own fields, and to enhance the overall learning process. Circuit analysis, digital systems, electronics, and electromechanics are covered. A wide variety of pedagogical features stimulate student interest and engender awareness of the material’s relevance to their chosen profession.
Contents
(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with a Summary and Problems.)
PART ONE: CIRCUITS
1. Introduction
1.1 Overview of Electrical Engineering
1.2 Circuits, Currents, and Voltages
1.3 Power and Energy
1.4 Kirchhoff’s Current Law
1.5 Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law
1.6 Introduction to Circuit Elements
1.7 Introduction to Circuits
2. Resistive Circuits
2.1 Resistances in Series and Parallel
2.2 Network Analysis by Using Series and Parallel Equivalents
2.3 Voltage-Divider and Current-Divider Circuits
2.4 Node-Voltage Analysis
2.5 Mesh-Current Analysis
2.6 Thévenin and Norton Equivalent Circuits
2.7 Superposition Principle
2.8 Wheatstone Bridge
3. Inductance and Capacitance
3.1 Capacitance
3.2 Capacitances in Series and Parallel
3.3 Physical Characteristics of Capacitors
3.4 Inductance
3.5 Inductances in Series and Parallel
3.6 Practical Inductors
3.7 Mutual Inductance
4. Transients
4.1 First-Order RC Circuits
4.2 DC Steady State
4.3 RL Circuits
4.4 RC and RL Circuits with General Sources
4.5 Second-Order Circuits
5. Steady-State Sinusoidal Analysis
5.1 Sinusoidal Currents and Voltages
5.2 Phasors
5.3 Complex Impedances
5.4 Circuit Analysis with Phasors and Complex Impedances
5.5 Power in AC Circuits
5.6 Thévenin and Norton Equivalent Circuits
5.7 Balanced Three-Phase Circuits
6. Frequency Response, Bode Plots, and
Resonance
6.1 Fourier Analysis, Filters, and Transfer Functions
6.2 First-Order Lowpass Filters
6.3 Decibels, the Cascade Connection, and Logarithmic Frequency Scales
6.4 Bode Plots
6.5 First-Order Highpass Filters
6.6 Series Resonance
6.7 Parallel Resonance
6.8 Ideal and Second-Order Filters
6.9 Digital Signal Processing
PART TWO: DIGITAL SYSTEMS
7. Logic Circuits
7.1 Basic Logic Circuit Concepts
7.2 Representation of Numerical Data in Binary Form
7.3 Combinatorial Logic Circuits
7.4 Synthesis of Logic Circuits
7.5 Minimization of Logic Circuits
7.6 Sequential Logic Circuits
Conclusions
8. Microcomputers
8.1 Computer Organization
8.2 Memory Types
8.3 Digital Process Control
8.4 The Motorola 68HC11/12
8.5 The Instruction Set and Addressing Modes for the 68HC11
8.6 Assembly-Language Programming
9. Computer-Based Instrumentation
Systems
9.1 Measurement Concepts and Sensors
9.2 Signal Conditioning
9.3 Analog-to-Digital Conversion
9.4 LabVIEW
PART THREE: ELECTRONICS
10. Diodes
10.1 Basic Diode Concepts
10.2 Load-Line Analysis of Diode Circuits
10.3 Zener-Diode Voltage-Regulator Circuits
10.4 Ideal-Diode Model
10.5 Piecewise-Linear Diode Models
10.6 Rectifier Circuits
10.7 Wave-Shaping Circuits
10.8 Linear Small-Signal Equivalent
Circuits
11. Amplifiers: Specifications and External
Characteristics
11.1 Basic Amplifier Concepts
11.2 Cascaded Amplifiers
11.3 Power Supplies and Efficiency
11.4 Additional Amplifier Models
11.5 Importance of Amplifier Impedances in Various Applications
11.6 Ideal Amplifiers
11.7 Frequency Response
11.8 Linear Waveform Distortion
11.9 Pulse Response
11.10 Transfer Characteristic and Nonlinear Distortion
11.11 Differential Amplifiers
11.12 Offset Voltage, Bias Current, and Offset Current
12. Field-Effect Transistors
12.1 NMOS and PMOS Transistors
12.2 Load-Line Analysis of a Simple NMOS Amplifier
12.3 Bias Circuits
12.4 Small-Signal Equivalent Circuits
12.5 Common-Source Amplifiers
12.6 Source Followers
12.7 CMOS Logic Gates
13. Bipolar Junction Transistors
13.1 Current and Voltage Relationships
13.2 Common-Emitter Characteristics
13.3 Load-Line Analysis of a Common-Emitter Amplifier
13.4 pnp Bipolar Junction Transistors
13.5 Large-Signal DC Circuit Models
13.6 Large-Signal DC Analysis of BJT Circuits
13.7 Small-Signal Equivalent Circuits
13.8 Common-Emitter Amplifiers
13.9 Emitter Followers
14. Operational Amplifiers
14.1 Ideal Operational Amplifiers
14.2 Inverting Amplifiers
14.3 Noninverting Amplifiers
14.4 Design of Simple Amplifiers
14.5 Op-Amp Imperfections in the Linear Range of Operation
14.6 Nonlinear Limitations
14.7 DC Imperfections
14.8 Differential and Instrumentation Amplifiers
14.9 Integrators and Differentiators
14.10 Active Filters
PART FOUR: ELECTROMECHANICS
15. Magnetic Circuits and Transformers
15.1 Magnetic Fields
15.2 Magnetic Circuits
15.3 Inductance and Mutual Inductance
15.4 Magnetic Materials
15.5 Ideal Transformers
15.6 Real Transformers
16. DC Machines
16.1 Overview of Motors
16.2 Principles of DC Machines
16.3 Rotating DC Machines
16.4 Shunt-Connected and Separately Excited DC Motors
16.5 Series-Connected DC Motors
16.6 Speed Control of DC Motors
16.7 DC Generators
17. AC Machines
17.1 Three-Phase Induction Motors
17.2 Equivalent-Circuit and Performance Calculations for Induction Motors
17.3 Synchronous Machines
17.4 Single-Phase Motors
17.5 Stepper and Brushless DC Motors
Appendix A: Complex Numbers
Summary
Problems
Appendix B: Nominal Values and the Color Code for
Resistors
Appendix C: Preparing for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam
Appendix D: Computer-Aided Circuit Analysis
D.1 Analysis of DC Circuits
D.2 Transient Analysis
D.3 Frequency Response
D.4 Other Examples
Appendix E:
Software Installation
Index
