1. Edition - September 2008
44.90 Euro
2008. 256 Pages, Softcover
- Practical Approach Book -
ISBN-10: 0-470-77971-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-77971-2 - John Wiley & Sons






Sample Chapter

Short description
The book begins with circuit design, electrical variables (including an overview on DC circuits) and circuit laws and equivalence. Exercises, problems and more challenging problems are presented to help consolidate learning. Spence approaches circuit analysis by showing the similarity between the equations describing AC,DC, and small-nonlinear behaviour. He instructs how to handle Zener diodes in power supplies and opamps in switching circuits, describing stabilization of voltage and the laws governing change behaviour. An overview of the analysis of change is presented near the end of the book, with a full explanation of small changes in nonlinear circuits, with systematic analysis.

From the contents
1 Circuit Design
2 Electrical variables
Overview: DC Circuits
3 Circuit Laws and Equivalence [+ exercises, problems and longer problems]
4 Circuit analysis
5 Voltage-controlled Current Sources and Nonlinear components
Overview: Operational Amplifiers (opamps)
6 Opamp characteristics, large signal operation [+ exercises, problems and longer problems]

7 Linear operation of the opamp [+exercises, problems and longer problems]
8 Mixed linear and nonlinear operation
Overview: AC Circuits
9 Components and relations
10 Phasor diagrams
11 Complex currents and voltages
12 AC circuit analysis; similarity to DC behavior
13 Frequency domain behavior
Overview: The analysis of change
14 Zener diode stabilization of voltage; laws governing change behavior
15 Small changes in nonlinear circuits; systematic analysis