450 Pages
    by CRC Press

    450 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Providing an introduction to good engineering practice for electrical and electronic engineers, this book is intended for first- and second-year undergraduate courses. It deals with engineering practice in relation to important topics such as reliability and maintainability, heat management and parasitic electrical effects, environmental influences, testing and safety. The coverage encompasses the properties, behaviour, fabrication and use of materials and components used in the fields of computing, digital systems, instrumentation, and control. The second edition has been revised extensively to reflect advances in technology, with new material on insulation-displacement jointing and electrical-safety testing.

    DC CIRCUITS AND METHODS OF CIRCUIT ANALYSIS
    Introduction
    Electric Current, Electromotive Force, Potential Difference, Energy and Power, Resistance and Conductance
    Resistors in Series and in Parallel
    The Measurement of Current, Voltage and Resistance
    Kirchoff's Laws
    Thévenin and Norton Equivalent Circuits
    Nodal Analysis
    Analysing Circuits using a Computer-aided Design (CAD) Package

    SIGNALS, WAVEFORMS AND AC COMPONENTS
    Electrical Waveforms
    Sinusoidal Waveforms and Frequency
    Voltage, R.M.S. and Power
    Frequency Spectra
    AC Components
    Conclusion and Summary

    PHASOR ANALYSIS OF AC CIRCUITS
    Phasors
    Phasor Multiplication and Division
    Phasor Manipulations using the Operator j
    Equivalent Impedance and Admittance
    Circuit Analysis using the Operator j
    The Decibel
    Bode Plots
    The Frequency Response of RLC Circuits
    The Principle of Duality
    Summary

    AMPLIFIERS AND FEEDBACK
    What are Amplifiers?
    The Operational Amplifier
    Feedback and Operational Amplifiers
    Summary of Feedback Principles
    Further Examples of Feedback Circuits
    Output Offset and Equivalent Input Offset Sources
    Noise and Equivalent Noise Sources
    Voltage, Current and Speed Limitations
    A Summary of some Op Amp Feedback Circuits

    COMBINATIONAL LOGIC CIRCUITS
    A Simple Interlock Example
    Binary Inputs and Outputs
    Truth Tables and Boolean Notation
    Basic Rules of Boolean Algebra
    Karnaugh Maps
    Electronic Combinational Logic
    Electrical Characteristics of Logic Families

    SEQUENTIAL LOGIC CIRCUITS
    Introduction
    Latches
    Flip-Flops
    Registers
    Shift Registers
    Counters
    The State-Transition Diagram
    A General Sequential Machine

    ANALOGUE-DIGITAL CONVERSION
    Introduction
    Digital-to-Analogue Conversion
    Analogue-to-Digital Conversion
    The Conversion of AC Signals

    DIODES AND POWER SUPPLIES
    Introduction
    Diodes
    Power Supplies
    Voltage Regulation
    Summary

    BASIC TRANSISTOR CIRCUITS
    Introduction
    Bipolar Transistors
    Field-Effect Transistors (FETs)
    Bipolar and FET Push-Pull Output Stages
    Basic Switching and Digital Circuits
    Summary

    Biography

    David Crecraft