Schaum's outlines electric circuits / Mahmood Nahvi and Joseph A. Edminister

Includes index.

1. Introduction -- Electrical quantities and SI units -- Force, work, and power -- Electric charge and current -- Electric potential -- Energy and electrical power -- Constant and variable functions -- 2. Circuit concepts -- Passive and active elements -- Sign conventions -- Voltage-current relations -- Resistance -- Inductance -- Capacitance -- Circuit diagrams -- Nonlinear resistors -- 3. Circuit laws -- Kirchhoff's Voltage Law -- Kirchhoff's Current Law -- Circuit elements in series -- Circuit elements in parallel -- Voltage division -- Current division -- 4. Analysis methods -- The Branch Current Method -- The Mesh current Method -- Matrices and determinants -- The Node Voltage Method -- Network reduction -- Input resistance -- Output resistance -- Transfer resistance -- Reciprocity property -- Superposition -- Thévenin's and Norton's Theorems -- Maximum power transfer theorem -- Two-terminal resistive circuits and devices -- Interconnecting two-terminal resistive circuits -- Small-signal model of nonlinear resistive devices -- 5. Amplifiers and operational amplifier circuits -- Amplifier model -- Feedback in amplifier circuits -- Operational amplifiers -- Analysis of circuits containing ideal op amps -- Inverting circuit -- Summing circuit -- Noninverting circuit -- Voltage follower -- Differential and difference amplifiers -- Circuits containing several op amps -- Integrator and differentiator circuits -- Analog computers -- Low-pass filter -- Decibel (dB) -- Real op amps -- Simple op amp model -- Comparator -- Flash analog-to-digital converter -- Summary of feedback in op amp circuits -- 6. Waveforms and signals -- Periodic functions -- Sinusoidal functions -- Time shift and phase shift -- Combinations of periodic functions -- The average and effective (RMS) values -- Nonperiodic functions -- The unit step function -- The unit impulse function -- The exponential function -- Damped sinusoids -- Random signals -- 7. First-order circuits -- Capacitor discharge in a resistor -- Establishing a DC voltage across a capacitor -- The source-free RL circuit -- Establishing a DC current in an inductor -- The exponential function revisited -- Complex first-order RL and RC circuits -- DC steady state in inductors and capacitors -- Transitions at switching time -- Response of first-order circuits to a pulse -- Impulse response of RC and RL circuits -- Summary of step and impulse responses in RC and RL circuits -- Response of RC and RL circuits to sudden exponential excitations -- Response of RC and RL circuits to sudden sinusoidal excitations -- Summary of forced response in first-order circuits -- First-order active circuits -- 8. Higher-order circuits and complex frequency -- Series RLC circuit -- Parallel RLC circuit -- Two-mesh circuit -- Complex frequency -- Generalized impedance (R, L, C) in s-Domain -- Network function and pole-zero plots -- The forced response -- The natural response -- Magnitude and frequency scaling -- Higher-order active circuits. 9. Sinusoidal steady-state circuit analysis -- Element responses -- Phasors -- Impedance and admittance -- Voltage and current division in the frequency domain -- The Mesh current Method -- The Node Voltage Method -- Thévenin's and Norton's theorems -- Superposition of AC sources -- 10. AC power -- Power in the time domain -- Power in sinusoidal steady state -- Average or real power -- Reactive power -- Summary of AC power in R, L, and C -- Exchange of energy between an inductor and a capacitor -- Complex power, apparent power, and power triangle -- Parallel-connected networks -- Power factor improvement -- Maximum power transfer -- Superposition of average powers -- 11. Polyphase circuits -- Two-phase systems -- Three-phase systems -- Wye and Delta Systems -- Phasor voltages -- Balance Delta-connected load -- Balance four-wire, Wye-connected load -- Single-line equivalent circuit for balanced three-phase loads -- Unbalanced Delta-connected load -- Unbalanced Wye-connected load -- Three-phase power -- Power measurement and the two-wattmeter method -- 12. Frequency response, filters, and resonance -- Frequency response -- High-pass and low-pass networks -- Half-power frequencies -- Generalized two-port, two-element networks -- The frequency response and network functions -- Frequency response from pole-zero location -- Ideal and practical filters -- Passive and active filters -- Bandpass filters and resonance -- Natural frequency and damping ratio -- RLC series circuit -- Series resonance -- Quality factor -- RLC parallel circuit -- Parallel resonance -- Practical LC parallel circuit -- Series-parallel conversions -- Locus diagrams -- Bode diagrams -- Observations -- Special features of Bode diagrams -- Summary of first-order filters -- Second-order filters -- Butterworth filters -- Scaling the frequency response of filters -- 13. Two-port networks -- Terminals and ports -- Z-parameters -- T-equivalent of reciprocal networks -- Y-parameters -- Pi-equivalent of reciprocal networks -- Application of terminal characteristics -- Conversion between Z- and Y-parameters -- H-parameters -- G-parameters -- Transmission parameters -- Interconnecting two-port networks -- Choice of parameter type -- Summary of terminal parameters and conversion -- 14. Mutual inductance and transformers -- Mutual inductance -- Coupling coefficient -- analysis of coupled coils -- Dot Rule -- Energy in a pair of coupled coils -- Conductively coupled equivalent circuits -- Linear transformer -- Ideal transformer -- Autotransformer -- Reflected impedance -- 15. Circuit analysis using spice and PSpice -- Circuit description -- Dissecting a Spice source file -- Data statements and DC analysis -- Control and output statements in DC analysis -- Thévenin equivalent -- Subcircuit -- Op amp circuits -- AC steady state and frequency response -- Mutual inductance and transformers -- Modeling devices with varying parameters -- Time response and transient analysis -- specifying other types of sources -- 16. The Laplace transform method -- Selected Laplace transforms -- Convergence of the integral -- Initial-value and final-value theorems -- Partial-fractions expansions -- Circuits in the s-Domain -- The network function and Laplace transforms -- Fourier method of waveform analysis -- Trigonometric Fourier series -- Exponential Fourier series -- Waveform symmetry -- Line spectrum -- Waveform synthesis -- Effective values and power -- Applications in circuit analysis -- Fourier transform of nonperiodic waveforms -- Properties of the Fourier transform -- Continuous spectrum -- Appendix A. Complex number system -- Appendix B. Matrices and determinants -- Index.

This Schaum's Outline gives you. 323 fully solved problems. Information on circuit elements, theorems, behavior, and analysis techniques. Support for all major textbooks for courses in circuit analysis --Book Jacket.