Electric Circuits: A Concise Conceptual Tutorial

This book is written in a reader-friendly format and is entertaining to read. It contains many cartoons drawn by the author himself. In addition to fundamental theories and examples, this book teaches some hands-on skills such as how to use a power supply, a function generator, and an oscilloscope. It also has a chapter on computer simulations using Multisim. Topics: 1 Voltage, Current, & Resistance 2 Power Supply & Multimeters 3 Ohm’s Law 4 KVL 5 KCL 6 Resistors in Series and Parallel 7 Voltage Divider and Current Divider 8 Node-Voltage Method 9 Mesh-Current Method 10 Multisim 11 Superposition 12 Thévenin Equivalent 13 Norton Equivalent 14 Maximum Power Transfer 15 Op-Amps 16 Inductors 17 Capacitors 18 Analysis of a Circuit by Solving Differential Equations 19 1st-Order Circuits 20 Phasor 21 Function Generators & Oscilloscopes 22 Mutual Inductance & Transformers 23 Fourier Series 24 Laplace Transform 25 Fourier Transform 26 2nd-Order Circuits 27 Filters 28 Wrapping Up