A Practical Introduction to Electrical Circuits

A Practical Introduction to Electrical Circuits represents a fresh approach to the subject which is compact and easy to use, yet offers a comprehensive description of the fundamentals, including Kirchhoff's laws, nodal and mesh analysis

John Ayers has been engaged in teaching and academic research for over three decades at the University of Connecticut, where he is a University Teaching Fellow. Ayers considers electrical circuits to be one of his passions. He earned the BSEE from the University of Maine in 1984 and the MSEE and PhDEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1987 and 1990, respectively. His industrial experience includes Fairchild Semiconductor, National Semiconductor, Phillips Laboratories, and Epitax Engineering. Ayers has authored nine books as well as hundreds of research papers, and is the recipient of eight awards for excellence and innovation in teaching

1. Beginning Concepts and Resistive Circuits. 2. Nodal Analysis. 3. Operational Amplifier Circuits. 4. Mesh Analysis. 5. Thevenin's and Norton's Theorems. 6. First-Order Circuits. 7. Second-Order Circuits. 8. Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis. 9. Frequency Response. APPENDIX A: Resistor Color Code. APPENDIX B: Sandard Values of 5% Resistors. APPENDIX C: Standard Values of 10% Capacitors. APPENDIX D: Electrolytic Capacitors. APPENDIX E: Electrolytic Capacitors. APPENDIX F: Complex Numbers. APPENDIX G: Cramer's Method.