Electric circuits : principles, applications, and computer analysis /
David A. Bell
- Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, c1995
- xix, 923 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Nature of Electricity -- 2. Measuring Current, Voltage, and Resistance -- 3. Ohm's Law and Electrical Calculations -- 4. Conductors, Insulators, and Resistors -- 5. Series Resistive Circuits -- 6. Parallel Resistive Circuits -- 7. Series-Parallel Circuits -- 8. Network Analysis Techniques -- 9. Network Theorems -- 10. Voltage Cells, Batteries, and DC Power Supplies -- 11. Magnetism -- 12. Magnetic Circuits -- 13. DC Measuring Instruments -- 14. Inductance -- 15. Capacitance -- 16. Inductance and Capacitance in DC Circuits -- 17. Alternating Current and Voltage -- 18. Phasors and Complex Numbers -- 19. Inductance and Capacitance in AC Circuits -- 20. Series and Parallel AC Circuits -- 21. Power in AC Circuits -- 22. AC Network Analysis -- 23. Resonance -- 24. Transformers -- 25. AC Measuring Instruments -- 26. Three-Phase AC Systems -- 27. Nonsinusoidal Waveforms -- 28. PSpice Programs for Circuit Analysis -- 29. Basic Programs for Circuit Analysis -- 30. Pascal Programs for Circuit Analysis -- 31. C Programs for Circuit Analysis -- App. 1 Circuit Symbols -- App. 2 The International System of Units (SI Units) -- App. 3 Unit Conversion Factors -- App. 4 American Wire Gauge Sizes and Metric Equivalents -- App. 5 Color Codes -- App. 6 Resistor and Capacitor Values.
Assumming no previous electrical knowledge, the coverage begins with explanations of basic electrical concepts and progresses through simple resistive circuit calculations to complex ac network analysis techniques.