Electricity is constantly at
work around your home and community, lighting rooms, running manufacturing
facilities, cooling stores and offices, playing radios and stereos,
and computing bank accounts. Now you can learn the basic concepts
and fundamentals behind electricity, and how it is used and controlled.
Basic Electricity & DC Circuits shows you how to predict and
control the behavior of basic and complex DC circuits. The text
is arranged to let you progress at your own pace, and concepts
and terms are introduced as you need them, with many detailed
examples and illustrations.Basic Electricity & DC Circuits
presents an introduction to electricity, voltage, current, and
resistance, Ohm's law and power, series circuits, introduction
to parallel circuits, parallel circuit analysis, parallel-series
circuits, series-parallel circuits, capacitors and the RC time
constant, inductors and the L/R time constant, plus much more.
Appendices include specific resistances of various materials,
specific resistance and resistivity, AWG table, interpreting the
resistor color code, preferred values for resistors and capacitors,
resistor size comparison, scientific notation and the metric prefixes,
basic schematic symbols, how to use square root tables, how to
extract square roots manually, the universal time constant graph,
charge and discharge curve calculations, capacitor color codes,
unit conversion charts, the Greek alphabet, and basic formulas
of basic electricity. |
