Circuit Analysis For Dummies

Learn to:

• Grasp resistive circuits, Kirchhoff's laws, equivalent subcircuits, and more
• Supplement your classroom learning
• Score high in your Circuit Analysis course

Circuits overloaded from electrical circuit analysis?

Circuit Analysis For Dummies gives you clear-cut information about the topics covered in a typical circuit analysis course. From resistive circuits and Kirchhoff's laws to equivalent subcircuits and energy storage, this friendly, hands-on guide is the perfect aid for making sense of the topics that may be confusing you in your circuit analysis course. So what are you waiting for?

• Circuit Analysis 101 — get the lowdown on the engineering lingo, concepts, and techniques necessary to analyze circuits
• Simplify it — understand the general analytical methods that help you simplify more complicated circuits to a manageable level
• Get amped — recognize how to work with transistors as current amplifiers and op-amps as voltage amplifiers
• Ch-ch-ch-changes — deal with changing signals and circuits that have passive energy storage devices (such as inductors and capacitors)
• Be a convert — use phasor and Laplace techniques to convert a calculus-based problem into one requiring only algebra

Open the book and find:

• The keys to reading circuit schematics
• How to apply Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's laws when analyzing circuits
• The steps for transforming sources
• Mesh current analysis, superposition, and other useful analytical methods
• The ins and outs of op-amp circuits
• Approaches for analyzing first- and second-order circuits
• How to create filters by connecting resistors, inductors, and capacitors