This one-semester textbook introduces techniques for circuit analysis, the natural and step response of RL and RC circuits, sinusoidal steady state analysis, and the Laplace transform. The supplementary workbook presents example calculations in Orcad PSpice release 9.2 in the same order as the text. The CD-ROM contains Orcad Lite 9.2. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Readers benefit because the book is based on these three themes: (1) it builds an understanding of concepts based on information the reader has previously learned; (2) it helps stress the relationship between conceptual understanding and problem-solving approaches; (3) the authors provide numerous examples and problems that use realistic values and situations to give users a strong foundation of engineering practice. The book also includes a PSpice Supplement which contains problems to teach readers how to construct PSpice source files; and this PSpice Version 9.2 can be used to solve many of the exercises and problems found in the book. Topical emphasis is on the basic techniques of circuit analysis–Illustrated via a Digital-to-Analog Resistive Ladder (Chapter 2); the Flash Converter (Chapter 4); Dual Slope Analog-to-Digital Converter (Chapter 5); Effect of parasite inductance on the step response of a series RLC circuit (Chapter 6); a Two-Stage RC Ladder Network (Chapter 8); and a Switching Surge Voltage (Chapter 9). For Electrical and Computer Engineers.
(NOTE: Each chapter ends with a Summary and Problems section.)
1. Circuit Variables and Circuit Elements.
Circuit Analysis: An Overview. Voltage, Current and the Basic Circuit
Elements. The Ideal Basic Circuit Element. Power and Energy. Voltage and
Current Sources. Electrical Resistance (Ohm's Law). Kirchoff's Laws. Analysis
of a Circuit Containing Dependent Sources.
2. Some Circuit Simplification Techniques.
Practical Perspective: A Digital-to-Analog Resistive Ladder.
Combining Resistors in Series and Parallel. Voltage and Current Dividers.
Source Transformations. Superposition. Practical Perspective:
Digital-to-Analog Resistive Ladder.
3. Techniques of Circuit Analysis. Practical Perspective: Circuits with
Realistic Resistors.
Terminology. Introduction to the Node-Voltage Method. The Node-Voltage Method
and Dependent Sources. The Node-Voltage Method: Some Special Cases.
Introduction to the Mesh-Current Method. The Mesh-Current Method and
Dependent Sources. The Mesh-Current Method: Some Special Cases. The
Node-Voltage Method Versus the Mesh-Current Method. Thevenin and Norton
Equivalents. More on Deriving a Thevenin Equivalent. Maximum Power Transfer.
Practical Perspective: Circuits with Realistic Resistors.
4. The Operational Amplifier. Practical Perspective: The Flash Converter.
Operational Amplifier Terminals. Terminal Voltages and Currents. The
Inverting-Amplifier Circuit. The Summing-Amplifier Circuit. The
Non-inverting-Amplifier Circuit. The Difference-Amplifier Circuit. The
Comparator. Practical Perspective: The Flash Converter.
5. The Natural and Step Response of RL and RC Circuits. Practical
Perspective: Dual Slope Analog-to-Digital Converter.
The Inductor. The Capacitor. Series-Parallel Combinations of Inductance and
Capacitance. Natural Response of RL and RC Circuits. Step Response of RL and
RC Circuits. The Integrating Amplifier. Practical Perspective: Dual Slope
Analog-to-Digital Converter.
6. Natural and Step Responses of RLC Circuits. Practical Perspective:
Parasitic.
Introduction to the Natural Response of a Parallel RLC Circuit. The Forms of
the Natural Response of a Parallel RLC Circuit. The Step Response of a
Parallel RLC Circuit. The Natural and Step Response of a Series RLC Circuit.
Practical Perspective: Parasitic Inductance.
7. Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis. Practical Perspective: Household
Distribution Circuit.
The Sinusoidal Source. The Sinusoidal Response. The Phasor. The Passive
Circuit Elements in the Frequency Domain. Kirchhoff's Laws in the Frequency
Domain. Circuit Simplifications. The Node-Voltage Method. The Mesh-Current
Method. Instantaneous, Average, and Reactive Power. The RMS Value and Power
Calculations. Complex Power and Power Calculations. Practical Perspective:
Household Distribution Circuit.
8. Introduction to the Laplace Transform. Practical Perspective: A Two-Stage
RC-Ladder.
Definition of the Laplace Transform. The Step Function. The Impulse Function.
Functional Transforms. Operational Transforms. Applying the Laplace
Transform. Inverse Transforms. Poles and Zeros of F(s). Initial and Final
Value Theorems. Practical Perspective: Two-Stage RC-Ladder Network.
9. The Laplace Transform in Circuit Analysis. Practical Perspective: Creation
of a Voltage Surge.
Circuit Elements in the s-Domain. Circuit Analysis in the s-Domain.
Applications. The Transfer Function. The Transfer Function in Partial
Fraction Expansions. The Transfer Function and the Convolution Integral. The
Transfer Function and the Steady-State Sinusoidal Response. The Impulse
Function in Circuit Analysis. Practical Perspective: Creation of a Voltage
Surge.
Appendix A: International System of Units.Appendix B: Complex
Numbers.Appendix C: An Abbreviated Table of Trigonometric Identities.Appendix
D: An Abbreviated Table of Integrals.Appendix E: Answers to Selected
Problems.Index.
Professor James W. Nilsson taught at Iowa State University for 39 years. Since retiring from Iowa State, he has been a visiting professor at Notre Dame, California Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo, and the United States Air Force Academy. In 1962, he co-authored (with R.G. Brown) Introduction to Linear Systems Analysis (John Wiley & Sons). In 1968, he authored Introduction to Circuits, Instruments, and Electronics (Harcourt Brace and World). Professor Nilsson received a Standard Oil Outstanding Teacher Award in 1968, the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1992, and the McGraw-Hill Jacob Millman Award in 1995. In 1990, he was elected to the rank of Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Professor Susan A. Riedel has been a member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Marquette University since 1981. She also holds a clinical research appointment in the Department of Orthopaedics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and was a visiting professor in the Bioengineering Unit at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, as a Fulbright Scholar during the 1989-1999 academic year. She has received two awards for teaching excellence at Marquette, and was recognized for her research contributions with an award from the Chicago Unit of the Shriner's Hospitals.
