Applied Electrical Engineering Fundamentals
About this book
Chapter 1. Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Circuits
1.1 Electronics Matters
1.2 Multidisciplinary Engineering Design
1.3 Book organization and approach
1.4 Lab Kit
1.5 Lab 0
Chapter 2. Circuit Concepts, Variables and Elements
2.1 Basic Physics Review
2.2 First Circuit
2.3 Circuit Elements
2.4 Current and Voltage Sources
2.5 AC and DC waveforms, average and RMS values
2.6 Circuit Laws: KCL and KVL
2.7 Resistors and Ohm's Law
2.8 Power and energy in resistive circuits
2.9 Device I-V Characteristics
2.10 Problems
Chapter 4. Diodes
4.1 Diode concept and bias
4.2 Diode I-V Characteristic Curves and Load Lines
4.3 Diode Circuit Models
4.4 Rectifier diode
4.4 Problems
4.5 Lab Experiments
Chapter 3. Circuit Analysis Techniques
3.1 Equivalent Resistance
3.2 Voltage and Current Dividers
3.3 Node voltages
3.4 Node Voltage Analysis
3.5 Thevenin Equivalence
3.7 Problems
3.8 Lab Experiments
Chapter 6. Operational Amplifiers
6.1 Ideal Op Amp Characteristics
6.2 Op Amp Input-Output Characteristic
6.3 Open Loop Voltage Comparator
6.4 Negative Feedback Amplifier
6.6 Problems
6.7 Lab Experiments
Chapter 5. Transistors
5.1 Transistor Construction and Models
5.2 Common emitter low-side switch
5.3 Emitter follower
5.4 Problems
5.5 Lab 2 Experiments
5.6 Helpful Circuit Analysis
Chapter 7. First Order Circuits
7.1 Capacitors
7.2 Discharging Capacitor
7.3 Charging capacitor
7.4 Charging and Discharging Case
7.5 Relaxation Oscillator
7.6 Problems
7.7 Lab Experiments
Chapter 8. Time and Frequency Domain Behavior of Signals and Systems
8.1 Signals in time, frequency, and phasor domains
8.2 Phasor representations
8.3 Frequency response of RC filter
8.4 RC Circuit Impedance
8.5 Filters
Chapter 9. Microcontroller Hardware and Software
9.1 Computer vs Microcontroller
9.2 Embedded Design Tools
9.3 Arduino Uno Development Board
9.5 Example: ledBlink
9.6 Example: ledButton
9.7 Example: lightPlotter and lightPlotterScaled
9.8 Example: showTime
9.9 Example: motorReverser
9.10 Example: MotorReverserSpeed
9.11 Example: SonarRanger
9.12 Example: SonarRangerDisplay
9.13 Lab Exercises
Appendices
Appendix A. Trigonometric Identities
Appendix B. Review of complex numbers
Applied Electrical Engineering Fundamentals by David J. McLaughlin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.