ABSTRACT

A fully comprehensive text for courses in electrical principles, circuit theory, and electrical technology, providing 800 worked examples and over 1000 further problems for students to work through at their own pace. This book is ideal for students studying engineering for the first time as part of BTEC National and other pre-degree vocational courses (especially where progression to higher levels of study is likely), as well as Higher Nationals, Foundation Degrees and first year undergraduate modules.

Now in its third edition, this best-selling textbook has been updated with developments in key areas such as semiconductors, transistors, and fuel cells, along with brand new material on ABCD parameters and Fourier’s Analysis. Greater emphasis is placed on real-world situations in order to ensure the reader can relate the theory to actual engineering practice. In addition, the text has been restructured throughout so that 175 Exercises now appear at regular intervals, which the student can work through to test their learning of essential concepts and check their progress.

part |2 pages

Part 1 Basic electrical engineering principles

chapter 2|9 pages

An introduction to electric circuits

chapter 3|8 pages

Resistance variation

chapter 5|16 pages

Series and parallel networks

chapter 6|14 pages

Capacitors and capacitance

chapter 7|11 pages

Magnetic circuits

chapter 8|9 pages

Electromagnetism

chapter 9|11 pages

Electromagnetic induction

chapter 11|12 pages

Semiconductor diodes

chapter 12|20 pages

Transistors

part |2 pages

Part 2 Electrical principles and technology

chapter 13|23 pages

D.c. circuit theory

chapter 14|16 pages

Alternating voltages and currents

chapter 15|18 pages

Single-phase series a.c. circuits

chapter 16|17 pages

Single-phase parallel a.c. circuits

chapter 17|15 pages

D.c. transients

chapter 18|14 pages

Operational amplifiers

chapter 19|13 pages

Three-phase systems

chapter 20|21 pages

Transformers

chapter 21|22 pages

D.c. machines

chapter 22|19 pages

Three-phas e induction motors

part |2 pages

Part 3 Advanced circuit theory and technology

chapter 23|9 pages

Revision of complex numbers

chapter 26|14 pages

Power in a.c. circuits

chapter 27|10 pages

A.c. bridges

chapter 28|14 pages

Series resonance and Q-factor

chapter 29|11 pages

Parallel resonance and Q-factor

chapter 30|9 pages

Introduction to network analysis

chapter 31|11 pages

Mesh-current and nodal analysis

chapter 32|9 pages

The superposition theorem

chapter 33|24 pages

Thévenin’s and Norton’s theorems

chapter 34|12 pages

Delta-star and star-delta transformations

chapter 36|38 pages

Complex waveforms

chapter 37|7 pages

A numerical method of harmonic analysis

chapter 38|15 pages

Magnetic materials

chapter 39|6 pages

Dielectrics and dielectric loss

chapter 40|22 pages

Field theory

chapter 41|33 pages

Attenuators

chapter 42|31 pages

Filter networks

chapter 43|18 pages

Magnetic ally coupled circ uits

chapter 44|19 pages

Transmission lines

chapter 45|43 pages

Transients and Laplace transforms