Introductory Circuits for Electrical and Computer Engineering: United States Edition [Paperback / softback]

Preface		xiii
Circuit Variables and Circuit Elements		1	(43)
Circuit Analysis: An Overview		2	(1)
Voltage, Current, and the Basic Circuit Elements		3	(2)
The Ideal Basic Circuit Element		5	(2)
Power and Energy		7	(3)
Voltage and Current Sources		10	(4)
Electrical Resistance (Ohm's Law)		14	(4)
Kirchhoff's Laws		18	(8)
Analysis of a Circuit Containing Dependent Sources		26	(18)
Summary		29	(1)
Problems		30	(14)
Some Circuit Simplification Techniques		44	(32)
Practical Perspective: Digital-to-Analog Resistive Ladder		44	(2)
Combining Resistors in Series and Parallel		46	(4)
Voltage and Current Dividers		50	(4)
Source Transformations		54	(4)
Superposition		58	(18)
Practical Perspective: Digital-to-Analog Resistive Ladder		62	(3)
Summary		65	(1)
Problems		66	(10)
Techniques of Circuit Analysis		76	(68)
Practical Perspective: Circuits with Realistic Resistors		76	(2)
Terminology		78	(5)
Introduction to the Node-Voltage Method		83	(3)
The Node-Voltage Method and Dependent Sources		86	(2)
The Node-Voltage Method: Some Special Cases		88	(3)
Introduction to the Mesh-Current Method		91	(4)
The Mesh-Current Method and Dependent Sources		95	(2)
The Mesh-Current Method: Some Special Cases		97	(2)
The Node-Voltage Method Versus the Mesh-Current Method		99	(5)
Thevenin and Norton Equivalents		104	(7)
More on Deriving a Thevenin Equivalent		111	(2)
Maximum Power Transfer		113	(31)
Practical Perspective: Circuits with Realistic Resistors		116	(4)
Summary		120	(2)
Problems		122	(22)
The Operational Amplifier		144	(36)
Practical Perspective: The Flash Converter		144	(2)
Operational Amplifier Terminals		146	(1)
Terminal Voltages and Currents		147	(5)
The Inverting-Amplifier Circuit		152	(2)
The Summing-Amplifier Circuit		154	(1)
The Noninverting-Amplifier Circuit		155	(1)
The Difference-Amplifier Circuit		156	(6)
The Comparator		162	(18)
Practical Perspective: The Flash Converter		164	(1)
Summary		165	(1)
Problems		166	(14)
The Natural and Step Response of RL and RC Circuits		180	(82)
Practical Perspective: Dual Slope Analog-to-Digital Converter		180	(2)
The Inductor		182	(7)
The Capacitor		189	(6)
Series-Parallel Combinations of Inductance and Capacitance		195	(3)
Natural Response of RL and RC Circuits		198	(16)
Step Response of RL and RC Circuits		214	(17)
The Integrating Amplifier		231	(31)
Practical Perspective: Dual Slope Analog-to-Digital Converter		234	(2)
Summary		236	(2)
Problems		238	(24)
Natural and Step Responses of RLC Circuits		262	(48)
Practical Perspective: Parasitic Inductance		262	(2)
Introduction to the Natural Response of a Parallel RLC Circuit		264	(6)
The Forms of the Natural Response of a Parallel RLC Circuit		270	(13)
The Step Response of a Parallel RLC Circuit		283	(8)
The Natural and Step Response of a Series RLC Circuit		291	(19)
Practical Perspective: Parasitic Inductance		297	(1)
Summary		298	(2)
Problems		300	(10)
Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis		310	(84)
Practical Perspective: Household Distribution Circuit		310	(2)
The Sinusoidal Source		312	(5)
The Sinusoidal Response		317	(2)
The Phasor		319	(6)
The Passive Circuit Elements in the Frequency Domain		325	(4)
Kirchhoff's Laws in the Frequency Domain		329	(2)
Circuit Simplifications		331	(10)
The Node-Voltage Method		341	(2)
The Mesh-Current Method		343	(1)
Instantaneous Average, and Reactive Power		344	(6)
The rms Value and Power Calculations		350	(3)
Complex Power and Power Calculations		353	(41)
Practical Perspective: Household Distribution Circuit		366	(3)
Summary		369	(3)
Problems		372	(22)
Introduction to the Laplace Transform		394	(48)
Practical Perspective: Two-Stage RC Ladder		394	(2)
Definition of the Laplace Transform		396	(2)
The Step Function		398	(3)
The Impulse Function		401	(4)
Functional Transforms		405	(1)
Operational Transforms		406	(6)
Applying the Laplace Transform		412	(2)
Inverse Transforms		414	(12)
Poles and Zeros of F(s)		426	(1)
Initial-and Final-Value Theorems		427	(15)
Practical Perspective: Two-Stage RC Ladder		431	(1)
Summary		432	(1)
Problems		433	(9)
The Laplace Transform in Circuit Analysis		442	(75)
Practical Perspective: Creation of a Voltage Surge		443	(1)
Circuit Elements in the s Domain		444	(3)
Circuit Analysis in the s Domain		447	(2)
Applications		449	(14)
The Transfer Function		463	(2)
The Transfer Function in Partial Fraction Expansions		465	(4)
The Transfer Function and the Convolution Integral		469	(8)
The Transfer Function and the Steady-State Sinusoidal Response		477	(3)
The Impulse Function in Circuit Analysis		480	(13)
Practical Perspective: Creation of a Voltage Surge		491	(2)
Summary		493	(2)
Problems		495	(22)
Appendix A The International System of Units		517	(4)
Appendix B Complex Numbers		521	(8)
B.1 Notation		521	(1)
B.2 The Graphical Representation of a Complex Number		522	(1)
B.3 Arithmetic Operations		523	(2)
B.4 Useful Identities		525	(1)
B.5 The Integer Power of a Complex Number		526	(1)
B.6 The Roots of a Complex Number		526	(3)
Appendix C An Abbreviated Table of Trigonometric Identities		529	(2)
Appendix D An Abbreviated Table of Integrals		531	(2)
Appendix E Answers to Selected Problems		533	(8)
Index		541

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.