Electrical Engineering: Principles and Applications, 6e helps students learn electrical-engineering fundamentals with minimal frustration. Its goals are to present basic concepts in a general setting, to show students how the principles of electrical engineering apply to specific problems in their own fields, and to enhance the overall learning process. Circuit analysis, digital systems, electronics, and electromechanics are covered. A wide variety of pedagogical features stimulate student interest and engender awareness of the material’s relevance to their chosen profession.
Key Features
- Statements of learning objectives open each chapter.
- Comments in the margins emphasize and summarize important points or indicate common pitfalls that students need to avoid.
- Short boxed articles demonstrate how electrical engineering principles are applied in other fields of engineering.
- Step-by-step problem solving procedures.
- Key equations are highlighted in the book to draw attention to important results.
New to This Edition
- We have continued the popular Practice Tests that students can use in preparing for course exams at the end of each chapter. Answers for the Practice Tests appear in Appendix D and complete solutions are included in the on-line Student Solutions Manual files.
- We have updated the coverage of MATLAB and the Symbolic Toolbox for network analysis in Chapters 2 through 6.
- Approximately 200 problems are new to this edition, replacing some of the problems from the previous edition, and many other problems have been modified.
- In Chapter 2, we have added an explanation of how the Wheatstone bridge is used in strain measurements.
- Sections 3.8 and 4.6 have been updated, deleting the coverage of piecewise linear functions which are problematic with recent versions of the Symbolic Toolbox.
- Practical Application 5.1 on the LORAN system has been deleted.
- Chapter 8 has been extensively updated and now uses the Freescale Semiconductor HCS12/9S12 family as an example of microcontrollers.
- Section 9.4 has been updated to the most recent version of LabVIEW
- Relatively minor corrections and improvements appear throughout the book.
Contents
- Ch 1 Introduction
- Ch 2 Resistive Circuits
- Ch 3 Inductance and Capacitance
- Ch 4 Transients
- Ch 5 Steady-State Sinusoidal Analysis
- Ch 6 Frequency Response, Bode Plots, and Resonance
- Ch 7 Logic Circuits
- Ch 8 Computers and Microcontrollers
- Ch 9 Computer-Based Instrumentation Systems
- Ch 10 Diodes
- Ch 11 Amplifiers: Specifications and External Characteristics
- Ch 12 Field-Effect Transistors
- Ch 13 Bipolar Junction Transistors
- Ch 14 Operational Amplifiers
- Ch 15 Magnetic Circuits and Transformers
- Ch 16 DC Machines
- Ch 17 AC Machines
APPENDICES
- A Complex Numbers
- B Nominal Values and the Color Code for Resistors
- C The Fundamentals of Engineering Examination
- D Answers for the Practice Tests
- E On-Line Student Resources
About the Authors
- Allan R. Hambley received his B.S. degree from Michigan Technological University, his M.S. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has worked in industry for Hazeltine Research Inc., Warwick Electronics, and Harris Government Systems. He is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering at Michigan Tech.
Book Details
- Hardcover: 912 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 6 edition (c2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0133116646
- ISBN-13: 978-0133116649
- Product Dimensions: 1.4 x 8 x 10 inches
- List Price: $206.20