Electrical Engineering: A Pocket Reference (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

1 DC Systems.- 1.1 Basic Quantities, Basic Laws.- 1.1.1 Electric Charge.- 1.1.2 Electric Current.- 1.1.3 Voltage and Potential.- 1.1.4 Ohm's Law.- 1.1.5 Resistance and Conductance.- 1.1.6 Temperature Dependence of Resistance.- 1.1.7 Inductance.- 1.1.8 Capacitance.- 1.1.9 Ideal Voltage Source.- 1.1.10 Ideal Current Source.- 1.1.11 Kirchhoff's Law.- 1.1.11.1 Kirchhoff's First Law (Current Law).- 1.1.11.2 Kirchhoff's Second Law (Voltage Law).- 1.1.12 Power and Energy.- 1.1.12.1 Energy and Power in a Resistor.- 1.1.12.2 Energy in an Inductor.- 1.1.12.3 Energy in a Capacitor.- 1.1.13 Efficiency.- 1.1.14 Maximum Power Transfer.- 1.2 Basic Circuits.- 1.2.1 Real Voltage and Current Sources.- 1.2.1.1 Real Voltage Source.- 1.2.1.2 Real Current Source.- 1.2.1.3 Voltage-Current Source Conversion.- 1.2.2 Circuit Elements in Series and Parallel.- 1.2.2.1 Series Combination of Resistors.- 1.2.2.2 Parallel Combination of Resistors.- 1.2.2.3 Series Combination of Conductances.- 1.2.2.4 Parallel Combination of Conductances.- 1.2.2.5 Series Combination of Inductances.- 1.2.2.6 Parallel Combination of Inductances.- 1.2.2.7 Series Combination of Capacitances.- 1.2.2.8 Parallel Combination of Capacitances.- 1.2.3 Star-Delta Transformation.- 1.2.4 Voltage and Current Divider.- 1.2.4.1 Voltage Divider.- 1.2.4.2 Current Divider.- 1.2.4.3 Capacitive and Inductive Dividers.- 1.2.5 RC and RL Combinations.- 1.2.5.1 Series Combination of R and C Driven by a Voltage Source.- 1.2.5.2 Series Combination of R and C Driven by a Current Source.- 1.2.5.3 Parallel Combination of R and C Driven by a Current Source.- 1.2.5.4 Parallel Combination of R and C Driven by a Voltage Source.- 1.2.5.5 Series Combination of R and L Driven by a Voltage Source.- 1.2.5.6 Series Combination of R and L Driven by a Current Source.- 1.2.5.7 Parallel Combination of R and L Driven by a Voltage Source.- 1.2.5.8 Parallel Combination of R and L Driven by a Current Source.- 1.2.6 RLC Combinations.- 1.2.6.1 Series Combination of R, L and C.- 1.3 Calculation Methods for Linear Circuits.- 1.3.1 Rules for Signs.- 1.3.2 Circuit Calculation with Mesh and Node Analysis.- 1.3.3 Superposition.- 1.3.4 Mesh Analysis.- 1.3.5 Node Analysis.- 1.3.6 Thevenin's and Norton's Theorem.- 1.3.6.1 Calculating a Load Current by Thevenin's Theorem.- 1.3.6.2 Calculating a Current Within a Network.- 1.4 Notation Index.- 1.5 Further Reading.- 2 Electric Fields.- 2.1 Electrostatic Fields.- 2.1.1 Coulomb's Law.- 2.1.2 Definition of Electric Field Strength.- 2.1.3 Voltage and Potential.- 2.1.4 Electrostatic Induction.- 2.1.5 Electric Displacement.- 2.1.6 Dielectrics.- 2.1.7 The Coulomb Integral.- 2.1.8 Gauss's Law of Electrostatics.- 2.1.9 Capacitance.- 2.1.10 Electrostatic Field at a Boundary.- 2.1.11 Overview: Fields and Capacitances of Different Geometric Configurations.- 2.1.12 Energy in an Electrostatic Field.- 2.1.13 Forces in an Electrostatic Field.- 2.1.13.1 Force on a Charge.- 2.1.13.2 Force at the Boundary.- 2.1.14 Overview: Characteristics of an Electrostatic Field.- 2.1.15 Relationship between the Electrostatic Field Quantities.- 2.2 Static Steady-State Current Flow.- 2.2.1 Voltage and Potential.- 2.2.2 Current.- 2.2.3 Electric Field Strength.- 2.2.4 Current Density.- 2.2.5 Resistivity and Conductivity.- 2.2.6 Resistance and Conductance.- 2.2.7 Kirchhoff's Laws.- 2.2.7.1 Kirchhoff's First Law (Current Law).- 2.2.7.2 Kirchhoff's Second Law (Mesh Law).- 2.2.8 Static Steady-State Current Flow at Boundaries.- 2.2.9 Overview: Fields and Resistances of Different Geometric Configurations.- 2.2.10 Power and Energy in Static Steady-State Current Flow.- 2.2.11 Overview: Characteristics of Static Steady-State Current Flow.- 2.2.12 Relationship Between Quantities in Static Steady-StateCurrent Flow.- 2.3 Magnetic Fields.- 2.3.1 Force on a Moving Charge.- 2.3.2 Definition of Magnetic Flux Density.- 2.3.3 Biot-Savart's Law.- 2.3.4 Magnetic Field Strength.- 2.3.5 Magnetic Flux.- 2.3.6 Magnetic Voltage and Ampere's Law