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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).

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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.

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

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