Introduction to Electric Circuits

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Introduction to Electric Circuits ...

To the memory of my mother and father with grateful thanks ...

Essential Electronics Series Introduction to Electric Circuits Eur Ing R G Poweli Principal Lecturer Department of Electrical an ...

First published in Great Britain 1995 by Arnold, a member of the Hodder Headline Group, 338 Euston Road, London NWl 3BH 9 1995 ...

Series Preface In recent years there have been many changes in the structure of undergraduate courses in engineering and the pro ...

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Contents 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Units ...

viii Contents 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. Single-phase a.c. circuits in the steady state Series a.c. circuits Complex notation Paral ...

9. 9. 9. 9. 9. 9. 9. 9. 9. 9. 9. The hybrid or h-parameters The inverse hybrid or g-parameters The transmission or ABC ...

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Preface This book covers the material normally found in first and second year syllabuses on the topic of electric circuits. It i ...

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Acknowledgements I am most grateful to a number of anonymous reviewers for their constructive criticism and suggestions. I am al ...

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1 Units and dimensions 1.1 INTRODUCTION In electrical and electronic engineering, as in all branches of science and engineering, ...

2 Units and dimensions Table 1. Quantity Unit Unit abbreviation Mass kilogram kg Length metre m Time second s Electric current a ...

1.2 TheSysteme International d'Unites 3 [a] = [v]/[T]. From Equation (1.1) we have that [v] = [L T-I], so [a] = [L T-~I//[T] = [ ...

4 Units and dimensions Solution 1 Electric charge is electric current multiplied by time. Thus [q] = [A][T], so [q] = [A T] (1.7 ...

1.3 Dimensional analysis 5 Example 1. The force between two charges ql and q2 separated by a distance d in a vacuum is given by ...