An Introduction to AC/DC Circuit Theory

By Steven Roman

Coming later this year

An Introduction to AC/DC Circuit Theory is a concise (about 150 pages) but elementary treatment of AC and DC circuit theory that can be used for self-study or to supplement a textbook in the subject.

Table of Contents

• Electric Charge and Electric Field
  • Electric Charge, Conductors and Insulators
  • Coulomb's Law
  • Electric Field
  • Electric Field Lines
  • Electric Flux
  • Gauss's Law
• Electric Potential Energy
  • Electrostatic Potential Energy and Work
• Current, Resistance and Electromotive Force
  • Series and Parallel Circuits
  • The Lumped Element Model
  • Current and Current Density
  • Current Through a Conductor
  • Current Density and Conductivity
  • Electromotive Force
  • Ohm's Law
  • Resistance
  • Direct and Alternating Current
  • Harmonics
  • Average and Root-Mean-Square Values
  • Instantaeous Values
  • Power of a Circuit Element: Active and Passive Components
• Overview of Circuit Elements
  • Resistors
  • Capacitors
  • Inductors
  • Power and Circuit Elements
  • Switches
• Resistance and Kirchhoff's Laws
  • Resistance and Resistors
  • Kirchhoff's Laws
  • Equivalent Resistance
  • Application: Voltage Dividers
  • Current Sources
• Complex Numbers and Phasors
  • Complex Numbers
  • Phasors
• Capacitors and Capacitance
  • Capacitors and Capacitance
  • How Current Flows in a Capacitive Circuit
  • Voltage and Current Across a Capacitor
  • Finding Maximum Currents and Voltages
  • Capacitors and High-Pass Filters
  • Capacitive Coupling
  • Dialectrics
  • Capacitors in Series and Parallel
• Magnetic Fields and Magnetic Forces
  • The Link Between Electricity and Magnetism
  • Magnetic Fields and Fluxes
  • Magnetic Force
• Electromagnetic Induction
  • Faraday's Law For Closed Loops
  • The Direction of an Induced Emf; Lenz's law
  • Inductance
  • Transformers
  • Alternators
  • Inductors
• DC Circuit Analysis
  • Growth and Decay of Voltage/Current
  • RLC Circuits
• AC Circuit Analysis
  • RLC Circuits
• Power in AC Circuits
• Semiconductors and Semiconductor Elements
  • Electron Energy
  • The Band Theory of Electrical Conduction
  • Semiconductors
  • P-N Junctions
  • Diodes
  • Transistors
  • Rectifiers
• Applications
  • Frequency Filtering in an AC Circuit
  • Resonance in an AC Circuit
• Units
• Some Trigonometric Formulas
• Some Phase Shifts
• Some Integrals