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• Part 2, which contains Chapter 9 to 14, deals with ac circuits. It
introduces phasors, sinusoidal steady-state analysis, ac power, rms
values, three-phase systems, and frequency response.
• Part 3, consisting of Chapters 15 to 19, are devoted to advanced
techniques for network analysis. It provides students with a solid
introduction to the Laplace transform, Fourier series, Fourier trans-
form, and two-port network analysis.
The material in the three parts is more than sufficient for a two-semester
course, so the instructor must select which chapters or sections to cover.
Sections marked with the dagger sign (†) may be skipped, explained
briefly, or assigned as homework. They can be omitted without loss of
continuity. Each chapter has plenty of problems grouped according to
the sections of the related material and diverse enough that the instruc-
tor can choose some as examples and assign some as homework. As
stated earlier, we are using three icons with this edition. We are using
to denote problems that either require PSpice in the solution
process, where the circuit complexity is such that PSpice or Multisim
would make the solution process easier, and where PSpice or Multisim
makes a good check to see if the problem has been solved correctly.
We are using to denote problems where MATLAB is required in the
solution process, where MATLAB makes sense because of the problem
makeup and its complexity, and where MATLAB makes a good check
to see if the problem has been solved correctly. Finally, we use
to identify problems that help the student develop skills that are needed
for engineering design. More difficult problems are marked with an
asterisk (*).
Comprehensive problems follow the end-of-chapter problems. They
are mostly applications problems that require skills learned from that
particular chapter.
Prerequisites
As with most introductory circuit courses, the main prerequisites, for
a course using this textbook, are physics and calculus. Although famil-
iarity with complex numbers is helpful in the later part of the book, it
is not required. A very important asset of this text is that ALL the math-
ematical equations and fundamentals of physics needed by the student,
are included in the text.
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