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Fundamentals of Electric Circuits by Charles K. Alexander and Matthew Sadiku

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Fundamentals of Electric Circuits continues in the spirit of its successful previous editions, with the objective of presenting circuit analysis in a manner that is clearer, more interesting, and easier to understand than other, more traditional texts. It has a balance of theory, worked and extended examples, practice problems, and real-world applications, combined with hundreds of homework problems. Robust media offerings renders this text to be the most comprehensive and student-friendly approach to linear circuit analysis. McGraw-Hill's Connect, provides an eBook experience for students and enables professors to assign and assess reading, homework, quizzes, and tests easily and automatically grades and records the scores of the student's work.

Part One DC Circuits
1. Basic Concepts
2. Basic Laws
3. Methods of Analysis
4. Circuit Theorems
5. Operational Amplifiers
6. Capacitors and Inductors
7. First-Order Circuits
8. Second-Order Circuits
Part Two AC Circuits
9. Sinusoids and Phasors
10. Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis
11. AC Power Analysis
12. Three-Phase Circuits
13. Magnetically Coupled Circuits
14. Frequency Response
Part Three Advanced Circuit Analysis
15. Introduction to the Laplace Transform
16. Applications of the Laplace Transform
17. The Fourier Series
18. Fourier Transform
Appendix
A) Simultaneous Equations and Matrix Inversion
B) Complex Numbers
C) Mathematical Formulas
D) Answers to Odd-Numbers Problems

About the Author

Charles K. Alexander

Dr. Charles K. Alexander is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. He is also the Director of the Center for Research in Electronics and Aerospace Technology (CREATE). From 2002 until 2006 he was Dean of the Fenn College of Engineering. He has held the position of Dean of Engineering at Cleveland State University, California State University, Northridge, and Temple University (acting Dean for six years). He has held the position of Department Chair at Temple University and Tennessee Technological University as well as the position of Stocker Visiting Professor (an Endowed Chair) at Ohio University. He has held faculty status at all of the aforementioned Universities.

Matthew Sadiku

Matthew N. O. Sadiku received his PhD from Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville. From 1984 to 1988, he was Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University, where he did graduate work in Computer Science. From 1988 to 2000, he was at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he became a full Professor. From 2000 to 2002, he was with Lucent/Avaya, Holmdel, New Jersey, as a System Engineer and with Boeing Satellite Systems as a Senior Scientist. He is currently a professor at Prairie View A&M University.

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