For courses in Introductory Circuits for Electrical and
Computer Engineers.
Introductory Circuits for Electrical and Computer
Engineering is a one-semester version of Electric Circuits,
the most widely used introductory circuits textbook of the
past decade. The one-semester version has retained the
three themes which made Electric Circuits so successful,
namely (1) It builds an understanding of concepts based on
information the student has previously learned; (2) The
text helps stress the relationship between conceptual
understanding and problem-solving approaches; (3) The
authors provide numerous examples and problems that use
realistic values and situations to give students a strong
foundation of engineering practice.
Contents
1. Circuit Variables and Circuit Elements.
Circuit Analysis: An
Overview. Voltage, Current and the Basic Circuit Element.
Power and Energy. Voltage and Current Sources. Electrical
Resistance (Ohm's Law). Kirchoff's Laws. Analysis of a
Circuit with Dependent Sources. Summary.
2. Some Circuit Simplification Techniques. Practical Perspective: A Digital-to-Analog Resistive
Ladder.
Combining Resistors in
Series and Parallel. Voltage and Current Dividers. Source
Transformations. Superposition. Practical Perspective:
Analysis of the Digital-to-Analog Resistive Ladder.
Summary.
3. Techniques of Circuit Analysis. Practical Perspective: Realistic Resistors.
Terminology. Introduction
to the Node-Voltage Method. The Node-Voltage Method and
Dependent Sources. The Node-Voltage Method: Some Special
Cases. Introduction to the Mesh-Current Method. The
Mesh-Current Method and Dependent Sources. The Mesh-Current
Method: Some Special Cases. The Node-Voltage Method vs. the
Mesh-Current Method. Thevenin and Norton Equivalents. More
on Deriving a Thevenin Equivalent. Maximum Power Transfer.
Practical Perspective: Realistic Resistors. Summary.
4. The Operational Amplifier. Practical Perspective: The Flash Converter.
Operational Amplifier
Terminals. Terminal Voltages and Currents. The
Inverting-Amplifier Circuit. The Summing-Amplifier Circuit.
The Non-inverting-Amplifier Circuit. The
Difference-Amplifier Circuit. The Comparator. Practical
Perspective: The Flash Converter. Summary.
5. The Natural and Step Response of RL and RC
Circuits. Practical Perspective: Dual Slope Analog-to-Digital
Converter.
The Inductor. The
Capacitor. Series-Parallel Combinations of Inductance and
Capacitance. Natural Response of RL and RC Circuits. Step
Response of RL and RC Circuits. The Integrating Amplifier.
Practical Perspective: Analysis of Dual Slope Converter.
Summary.
6. Natural and Step Response of RLC Circuits.
Practical Perspective: Effect of Parasitic Inductance on
the Step Response of a Series RLC Circuit.
Introduction to the
Natural Response of a Parallel RLC Circuit. The Forms of
the Natural Response of a Parallel RLC Circuit. The Step
Response of a Parallel RLC Circuit. The Natural and Step
Response of a Series RLC Circuit. Practical Perspective:
Effect of Inductance on the Step Response of a Series RLC
Circuit. Summary.
7. Sinusoidal Steady State Analysis. Practical Perspective: Household Distribution
Circuit.
The Sinusoidal Source. The
Sinusoidal Response. The Phasor. The Passive Circuit
Elements in the Frequency Domain. Kirchhoff's Laws in the
Frequency Domain. Circuit Simplifications. The Node-Voltage
Method. The Mesh-Current Method. Instantaneous, Average,
and Reactive Power. The RMS Value and Power Calculations.
Complex Power and Power Calculations. Practical
Perspective: Household Distribution Circuit. Summary.
8. Introduction to the Laplace Transform. Practical Perspective: A Two-Stage RC-Ladder
Network.
Definition of the Laplace
Transform. The Step Function. The Impulse Function.
Functional Transforms. Operational Transforms. Applying the
Laplace Transform. Inverse Transforms. Poles and Zeros of
F(s). Initial and Final Value Theorems. Practical
Perspective: A Two-Stage RC-Ladder Network. Summary
9. The Laplace Transform in Circuit Analysis.
Practical Perspective: Creation of a Voltage Surge by
Switching.
Circuit Elements in the
s-Domain. Circuit Analysis in the s-Domain. Applications.
The Transfer Function. The Transfer Function in Partial
Fraction Expansions. The Transfer Function and the
Convolution Integral. The Transfer Function and the
Steady-State Sinusoidal Response. The Impulse Function in
Circuit Analysis. Practical Perspective: Analysis of a
Voltage Surge Caused by Switching off a Load.
Summary.
Appendix A: International System of Units. Appendix B: Complex Numbers. Appendix C: Trigonometric Identities. Appendix D: An Abbreviated Table of Integrals.
Appendix E: Answers to Selected Problems.