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Electric Circuits Revised and PSpice Supplement Package, 6/E
James W. Nilsson, (Emeritus) Iowa State University
Susan A. Riedel, Marquette University

ISBN-10: 0130573078
ISBN-13:  9780130573070

Publisher:  Prentice Hall
Copyright:  2001
Format:  Paper Package; 1018 pp
Published:  08/21/2000
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For courses in Linear Circuit Analysis and Introductory Circuit Analysis.

Electric Circuits is the most widely used introductory circuits textbook of the past decade. The book has remained popular due to its success in implementing three themes throughout the text: (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.


Features

  • NEW - Greater focus on design to meet the curriculum demands of ABET—Twelve chapters begin with a “Practical Perspectives” feature.
  • NEW - The coverage of Mutual Inductance—Integrated into earlier chapters as asked for by reviewers.
  • NEW - Over one-third of the problems are new—There are more MATLAB® and PSpice problems, which are identified with new icons.
  • NEW - Filters and Transforms chapters (which provide a background for signal processing courses)—Completely rewritten to reflect updates in the material.
  • Excellent examples—Encourage students to use a consistent problem-solving methodology.
  • Superior homework problems—Accomplish several goals: (1) they give students practice in using the analytical techniques developed in the text; (2) they give students practice in choosing appropriate analytical tools; (3) they introduce students to design-oriented problems.
  • PSpice Supplement—Contains problems to teach students how to construct PSpice source files. PSpice can be used to solve many of the exercises and problems found in the text.


New To This Edition

  • Greater focus on design to meet the curriculum demands of ABET—Twelve chapters begin with a “Practical Perspectives” feature.
  • The coverage of Mutual Inductance—Integrated into earlier chapters as asked for by reviewers.
  • Over one-third of the problems are new—There are more MATLAB® and PSpice problems, which are identified with new icons.
  • Filters and Transforms chapters (which provide a background for signal processing courses)—Completely rewritten to reflect updates in the material.


Table of Contents

(NOTE: Each chapter includes one or two Practical Perspectives, a Summary, and Problems.)

1. Circuit Variables.

Electrical Engineering: An Overview. The International System of Units. Circuit Analysis: An Overview. Voltage and Current. The Ideal Basic Circuit Element. Power and Energy.



2. Circuit Elements.

Voltage and Current Sources. Electrical Resistance (Ohm's Law). Construction of a Circuit Model. Kirchhoff's Laws. Analysis of a Circuit Containing Dependent Sources.



3. Simple Resistive Circuits.

Resistors in Series. Resistors in Parallel. The Voltage-Divider Circuit. The Current-Divider Circuit. Measuring Voltage and Current. The Wheatstone Bridge. Delta-to-Wye (Pi-to-Tee) Equivalent Circuits.



4. Techniques of Circuit Analysis.

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 Versus the Mesh-Current Method. Source Transformations. Thévenin and Norton Equivalents. More on Deriving a Thévenin Equivalent. Maximum Power Transfer. Superposition.



5. The Operational Amplifier.

Operational Amplifier Terminals. Terminal Voltages Currents. The Inverting-Amplifier Circuit. The Summing-Amplifier Circuit. The Noninverting-Amplifier Circuit. The Difference-Amplifier Circuit. A More Realistic Model for the Operational Amplifier.



6. Inductance, Capacitance, and Mutual Inductance.

The Inductor. The Capacitor. Series-Parallel Combinations of Inductance and Capacitance. Mutual Inductance. A Closer Look at Mutual Inductance.



7. Response of First-Order RL and RC Circuits.

The Natural Response of an RL Circuit. The Natural Response of an RC Circuit. The Step Response of RL and RC Circuits. A General Solution for Step and Natural Responses. Sequential Switching. Unbounded Response. The Integrating Amplifier.



8. Natural and Step Responses of RLC Circuits.

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. A Circuit with Two Integrating Amplifiers.



9. Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis.

The Sinusoidal Source. The Sinusoidal Response. The Phasor. The Passive Circuit Elements in the Frequency Domain. Kirchhoff's Laws in the Frequency Domain. Series, Parallel, and Delta-to-Wye Simplifications. Source Transformations and Thévenin-Norton Equivalent Circuits. The Node-Voltage Method. The Mesh-Current Method. The Transformer. The Ideal Transformer. Phasor Diagrams.



10. Sinusoidal Steady-State Power Calculations.

Instantaneous Power. Average and Reactive Power. The rms Value and Power Calculations. Complex Power. Power Calculations. Maximum Power Transfer.



11. Balanced Three-Phase Circuits.

Balanced Three-Phase Voltages. Three-Phase Voltage Sources. Analysis of the Wye-Wye Circuit. Analysis of the Wye-Delta Circuit. Power Calculations in Balanced Three-Phased Circuits. Measuring Average Power in Three-Phase Circuits.



12. Introduction to the Laplace Transform.

Definition of the Laplace Transform. The Step Function. The Impulse Function. Functional Transforms. Operational Transforms. Applying the Laplace Transform. Inverse Transforms. Pole and Zeros of F (s). Initial- and Final-Value Theorems.



13. The Laplace Transform in Circuit Analysis.

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.



14. Introduction to Frequency-Selective Circuits.

Some Preliminaries. Low-Pass Filters. High-Pass Filters. Bandpass Filters. Bandreject Filters. Bode Diagrams. Bode Diagrams: Complex Poles and Zeros.



15. Active Filter Circuits.

First-Order Low-Pass and High-Pass Filters. Scaling. Op Amp Bandpass and Bandreject Filters. Higher Order Op Amp Filters. Narrowband Bandpass and Bandreject Filters.



16. Fourier Series.

Fourier Series Analysis: An Overview. The Fourier Coefficients. The Effect of Symmetry on the Fourier Coefficients. An Alternative Trigonometric Form of the Fourier Series. An Application. Average-Power Calculations with Periodic Functions. The RMS Value of a Periodic Function. The Exponential Form of the Fourier Series. Amplitude and Phase Spectra.



17. The Fourier Transform.

The Derivation of the Fourier Transform. The Convergence of the Fourier Integral. Using Laplace Transforms to Find Fourier Transforms. Fourier Transforms in the Limit. Some Mathematical Properties. Operational Transforms. Circuit Applications. Parseval's Theorem.



18. Two-Port Circuits.

The Terminal Equations. The Two-Port Parameters. Analysis of the Terminated Two-Port Circuit. Interconnected Two-Port Circuits.



Appendix A. The Solution of Linear Simultaneous Equations.

Preliminary Steps. Cramer's Method. The Characteristic Determinant. The Numerator Determinant. The Evaluation of a Determinant. Matrices. Matrix Algebra. Identity, Adjoint, and Inverse Matrices. Partitioned Matrices. Applications.



Appendix B. Complex Numbers.

Notation. The Graphical Representation of a Complex Number. Arithmetic Operations. Useful Identities. The Integer Power of a Complex Number. The Roots of a Complex Number.



Appendix C. More on Magnetically Coupled Coils and Ideal Transformers.

Equivalent Circuits for Magnetically Coupled Coils. The Need for Ideal Transformers in the Equivalent Circuits.



Appendix D. The Decibel.


Appendix E. An Abbreviated Table of Trigonometric Identities.


Appendix F. An Abbreviated Table of Integrals.


Index.



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Electric Circuits is the most widely used introductory circuits reference book of the past decade. The book has remained popular due to its success in implementing three themes throughout:
(1) It builds an understanding of concepts based on information the reader has previously learned; (2) The book 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, giving the reader a strong foundation of engineering practice.

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  • PSpice Supplement contains problems to teach how to construct PSpice source files—PSpice can be used to solve many of the exercises and problems found in the book.

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