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This textbook serves as a tutorial for engineering students. Fundamental circuit analysis methods are presented at a level accessible to students with minimal background in engineering. The emphasis of the book is on basic concepts, using mathematical equations only as needed. Analogies to everyday life are used throughout the book in order to make the material easier to understand. Even though this book focuses on the fundamentals, it reveals the authors' deep insight into the relationship between the phasor, Fourier transform, and Laplace transform, and explains to students why these transforms are employed in circuit analysis.
List of contents
Introduction.- Voltage, Current, and Resistance.- DC Power Supply and Multimeters.- Ohm's Law.- Kirchhoff's Voltage Law (KVL).- Kirchhoff's Current Law (KCL).- Resistors in Series and in Parallel.- Voltage Divider and Current Divider.- Node-Voltage Method.- Mesh-Current Method.- Superposition.- Thévenin Equivalent.- Norton Equivalent.- Maximum Power Transfer.- Operational Amplifiers.- Inductors.- Capacitors.- Analysis of a Circuit by Solving Differential Equations.- First-Order Circuits.- Sinusoidal Steady-State.- Function Generators and Oscilloscopes.- Mutual Inductance and Transformers.- Fourier Series.- Laplace Transform in Circuit Analysis.- Fourier Transform in Circuit Analysis.- Second-Order Circuits.- Filters.- Wrapping Up.
About the author
Larry Zeng is an Associate Professor at Utah Valley University and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Utah. He is an IEEE Fellow with 166 peer-reviewed scientific journal papers. He also published 3 books.
Megan Zeng is a student at the University of California, Berkeley. She currently works for electrical engineering courses as part of the teaching staff.
Summary
This textbook serves as a tutorial for engineering students. Fundamental circuit analysis methods are presented at a level accessible to students with minimal background in engineering. The emphasis of the book is on basic concepts, using mathematical equations only as needed. Analogies to everyday life are used throughout the book in order to make the material easier to understand. Even though this book focuses on the fundamentals, it reveals the authors' deep insight into the relationship between the phasor, Fourier transform, and Laplace transform, and explains to students why these transforms are employed in circuit analysis.
