Bird's electrical circuit theory and technology /
"This undergraduate and advanced pre-degree textbook includes 850 worked examples. Now with glass batteries, climate change and the future of electricity production. Its companion website includes multiple choice tests, laboratory experiments, and 1400 questions and solutions"--
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Published: |
Routledge,
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Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon : |
Publication Dates: | 2022. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | Seventh edition. |
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Summary: |
"This undergraduate and advanced pre-degree textbook includes 850 worked examples. Now with glass batteries, climate change and the future of electricity production. Its companion website includes multiple choice tests, laboratory experiments, and 1400 questions and solutions"-- |
Item Description: | Includes index. |
Carrier Form: | xvii, 911 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm |
ISBN: |
9780367672225 0367672227 9780367672249 0367672243 |
Index Number: | TK454 |
CLC: |
TN7 TM13 |
Call Number: | TM13/B618/7th ed. |
Contents: | Section 1: Revision of some basic mathematics. Some mathematics revision -- Further mathematics revision -- Section 2: Basic electrical and electronic engineering principles. Units associated with basic electrical quantities -- An introduction to electric circuits -- Resistance variation -- Batteries and alternative sources of energy -- Series and parallel networks -- Capacitors and capacitance -- Magnetic circuits -- Electromagnetism -- Electromagnetic induction -- Electrical measuring instruments and measurements -- Semiconductor diodes -- Transistors -- Section 3: Electrical Principles and Technology. d.c. circuit theory -- Alternating voltages and currents -- Single-phase series a.c. circuits -- Single-phase parallel a.c. circuits -- d.c. transients -- Operational amplifiers -- Global climate change and the future of electricity production -- Three-phase systems -- Transformers -- d.c. machines -- Three-phase induction motors -- Section 4: Advanced circuit theory and technology. Revision of complex numbers -- Application of complex numbers to series a.c. circuits -- Application of complex numbers to parallel a.c. networks -- Power in a.c. circuits -- a.c. bridges -- Series resonance and Q-factor -- Parallel resonance and Q-factor -- Introduction to network analysis -- Mesh-current and nodal analysis -- The superposition theorem -- Thévenin's and Norton's theorems -- Delta-star and star-delta transformations -- Maximum power transfer theorems and impedance matching -- Complex waveforms -- A numerical method of harmonic analysis -- Magnetic materials -- Dielectrics and dielectric loss -- Field theory -- Attenuators -- Filter networks -- Magnetically coupled circuits -- Transmission lines -- Transients and Laplace transforms -- Section 5: General reference. |