Practical electronics for inventors

Main Author: Scherz, Paul
Corporate Authors: McGraw-Hill, McGraw - Hill
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York: McGraw-Hill, c2000
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Theory
  • Current
  • Voltage
  • Resistance
  • DC Power Sources
  • Two Simple Battery Sources
  • Electric Circuits
  • Ohm's Law
  • Circuit Reduction
  • Kirchhoff's Laws
  • Thevenin's Theorem
  • Sinusoidal Power Sources
  • Root Mean Square (rms) Voltages
  • Capacitors
  • Reactance of a Capacitor
  • Inductors
  • Reactance of an Inductor
  • Fundamental Potentials and Circuits
  • DC Sources and RC/RL/RLC Circuits
  • Complex Numbers
  • Circuits with Sinusoidal Sources
  • Analyzing Sinusoidal Circuits with Complex Impedances
  • Impedances in Series and the Voltage Divider
  • Impedances in Parallel and the Current Divider
  • Applying Kirchhoff's Laws in AC Form
  • Thevenin's Theorem in AC Form
  • Power in AC Circuits
  • Decibels
  • Resonance in LC Circuits
  • Resonance in RLC Circuits
  • Filters
  • Circuits with Periodic Nonsinusoidal Sources
  • Circuits with Nonperiodic Sources
  • Nonlinear Circuits and Analyzing Circuits by Intuition
  • Basic Electronic Circuit Components
  • Wires, Cables, and Connectors
  • Wires
  • Cables
  • Connectors
  • Wiring and Connector Symbols
  • High-Frequency Effects within Wires and Cables
  • Batteries
  • How a Cell Works
  • Primary Batteries
  • Comparing Primary Batteries
  • Secondary Batteries
  • Battery Capacity
  • Note on Internal Voltage Drop of a Battery
  • Switches
  • How a Switch Works
  • Describing a Switch
  • Kinds of Switches
  • Simple Switch Applications
  • Relays
  • Specific Kinds of Relays
  • A Few Notes about Relays
  • Some Simple Relay Circuits
  • Resistors