The following are some of the improvement that will aid both students and teachers in using this text:
- Objectives are added to the beginning of each chapter to
reveal on a broad scale what the student should learn from
the chapter.
- The chapter on Inductors now follows directly after the
chapter on Capacitors. The more natural flow from coverage
of capacitors to inductors makes use of the similarities in
circuit analysis for the two elements.
- The chapter on Magnetic Circuits now follows the chapter on
Inductors. This chapter contains excellent material for
practical applications that students can use as a resource
later, but many teachers rarely had time to cover the detail
presented in the chapter.
- The Filters chapter now follows the Resonance chapter,
which again permits a continuing discussion of similar material.
- The chapter on System Analysis was deleted to permit
expanded coverage of some of the important topics in the
first half of the text and because so few institutions cover
the material in an introductory course.
- Coverage is increased in the earlier chapters for some very
important topics, such as series and parallel circuits, mesh and
nodal analysis, and the transient response of capacitors and
inductors.
- Problems are added in almost every chapter of the text. A
review of the Solutions Manual prompted me to revise many
problems so that the results better reinforce the concept
under investigation and further challenge the student.
1. Introduction
2. Voltage and Current
3. Resistance
4. Ohm’s Law, Power, and Energy
5. Series dc Circuits
6. Parallel dc Circuits
7. Series—Parallel Circuits
8. Methods of Analysis and Selected Topics (dc)
9. Network Theorems
10. Capacitors
Etc.