Ebook: Dorf's Introduction to Electric Circuits, Global Edition

Description

Dorf’s Introduction to Electric Circuits, Global Edition, is designed for a one- to -three term course in electric circuits or linear circuit analysis. The book endeavors to help students who are being exposed to electric circuits for the first time and prepares them to solve realistic problems involving these circuits. Abundant design examples, design problems, and the How Can We Check feature illustrate the text’s focus on design. The Global Edition continues the expanded use of problem-solving software such as PSpice and MATLAB.


Table of contents

CHAPTER 1 Electric Circuit Variables 1
CHAPTER 2 Circuit Elements 20
CHAPTER 3 Resistive Circuits 53
CHAPTER 4 Methods of Analysis of Resistive Circuits 114
CHAPTER 5 Circuit Theorems 169
CHAPTER 6 The Operational Amplifier 219
CHAPTER 7 Energy Storage Elements 268
CHAPTER 8 The Complete Response of RL and RC Circuits 322
CHAPTER 9 The Complete Response of Circuits with Two Energy Storage Elements 378
CHAPTER 10 Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis 425
CHAPTER 11 AC Steady-State Power 504
CHAPTER 12 Three-Phase Circuits 568
CHAPTER 13 Frequency Response 604
CHAPTER 14 The Laplace Transform 670
CHAPTER 15 Fourier Series and Fourier Transform 741
CHAPTER 16 Filter Circuits 804
CHAPTER 17 Two-Port and Three-Port Networks 840
APPENDIX A Getting Started with PSpice 865
APPENDIX B MATLAB, Matrices, and Complex Arithmetic 873
APPENDIX C Mathematical Formulas 885
APPENDIX D Standard Resistor Color Code 889
References 891
Index 893


New To This Edition

Major update of Chapter 10, Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis.
Expanded use of problem-solving software PSpice and MATLAB.
More end-of-chapter problems coded in WileyPLUS. The WileyPLUS online learning environment contains hundreds of problems with randomized variables, supporting student practice and faculty assessment of student progress and challenges.
New problems and New examples have been added to the text.


Features

Presents a thorough overview of circuit theory and design that develops students’ ability to “think like an engineer.”
Problems including: basic analysis problems, compare and contrast problems, multipart problems, MATLAB and PSpice problems, and design problems.
Each chapter concludes with a design example that uses a formal, five-step problem solving methodology.
“How Can We Check” sections, teach students to assess their own work for correctness, and are included in each chapter.
Illustrative examples demonstrate multiple approaches to solving similar problems.
The WileyPLUS learning environment provides robust resources for self-evaluation of student progress and assessment of learning outcomes.


About the Author

James A. Svoboda is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Clarkson University where he teaches courses on topics such as circuits electronics, and computer programming. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and M.S. from the University of Colorado, and a B. S. from General Motors Institute.
Sophomore Circuits is one of Professor Svoboda's favorite courses. He has taught this course to 2500 undergraduates at Clarkson University over the past 21 years. In 1996, he received Clarkson University's Distinguished Teaching Award.
Professor Svoboda has written several research papers describing the advantages of using nullors to model electric circuits for computer analysis. He is interested in the way technology affects engineering education and has developed several software packages for use in Sophomore Circuits.
Richard C. Dorf professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Davis, teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in electrical engineering in the fields of circuits and control systems. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, an M.S. from the University of Colorado and a B.S. from Clarkson University. Highly concerned with the discipline of electrical engineering and its wide value to social and economic needs, he has written and lectured internationally on the contributions and advances in electrical engineering.
Professor Dorf has extensive experience with education and industry and its professionally active in the fields of robotics, automation, electric circuits, and communications. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; The Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stanford University; of California, Berkeley.
A Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Dr. Dorf is widely known to the profession for his Modern Control Systems, Eighth Edition (Addison-Wesley, 1998) and The International Encyclopedia of Robotics (Wiley 1988). Dr. Dorf is also the coauthor of Circuits, Devices and Systems (with Ralph Smith), Fifth Edition (Wiley, 1992). Dr. Dorf edited the widely used Electrical Engineering Handbook, Second Edition (CRC Press and IEEE Press) published in 1997.