John OMalley - Schaums Outline of Basic Circuit Analysis

JOHN R. OMALLEY is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Florida. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Florida and an L.L.B. degree from Georgetown University. He is the author of two books on circuit analysis and two on the digital computer. He has been teaching courses in electric circuit analysis since 1959.

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Dedicated to the loving memory of my brother
Norman Joseph OMalley
Lawyer, engineer, and mentor

Studying from this book will help both electrical technology and electrical engineering students learn circuit analysis with, it is hoped, less effort and more understanding. Since this book begins with the analysis of dc resistive circuits and continues to that of ac circuits, as do the popular circuit analysis textbooks, a student can, from the start, use this book as a supplement to a circuit analysis textbook.

The reader does not need a knowledge of differential or integral calculus even though this book has derivatives in the chapters on capacitors, inductors, and transformers, as is required for the voltage-current relations. The few problems with derivatives have clear physical explanations of them, and there is not a single integral anywhere in the book. Despite its lack of higher mathematics, this book can be very useful to an electrical engineering reader since most material in an electrical engineering circuit analysis course requires only a knowledge of algebra. Where there are different definitions in the electrical technology and engineering fields, as for capacitive reactances, phasors, and reactive power, the reader is cautioned and the various definitions are explained.

One of the special features of this book is the presentation of PSpice, which is a computer circuit analysis or simulation program that is suitable for use on personal computers (PCs). PSpice is similar to SPICE, which has become the standard for analog circuit simulation for the entire electronics industry. Another special feature is the presentation of operational-amplifier (op-amp) circuits. Both of these topics are new to this second edition. Another topic that has been added is the use of advanced scientific calculators to solve the simultaneous equations that arise in circuit analyses. Although this use requires placing the equations in matrix form, absolutely no knowledge of matrix algebra is required. Finally, there are many more problems involving circuits that contain dependent sources than there were in the first edition.

I wish to thank Dr. R. L. Sullivan, who, while I was writing this second edition, was Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Florida. He nurtured an environment that made it conducive to the writing of books. Thanks are also due to my wife, Lois Anne, and my son Mathew for their constant support and encouragement without which I could not have written this second edition.

JOHN R. OMALLEY

To make numbers easier to read, some international scientific committees have recommended the practice of separating digits into groups of three to the right and to the left of decimal points, as in 64 325.473 53. No separation is necessary, however, for just four digits, and they are preferably not separated. For example, either 4138 or 4 138 is acceptable, as is 0.1278 or 0.127 8, with 4138 and 0.1278 preferred. The international committees did not approve of the use of the comma to separate digits because in some countries the comma is used in place of the decimal point. This digit grouping is used throughout this book.

The International System of Units (SI) is the international measurement language. SI has nine base units, which are shown in along with the unit symbols. Units of all other physical quantities are derived from these.

Table 1-1

There is a decimal relation, indicated by prefixes, among multiples and submultiples of each base unit. An SI prefix is a term attached to the beginning of an SI unit name to form either a decimal multiple or submultiple. For example, since kilo is the prefix for one thousand, a kilometer equals 1000 m. And because micro is the SI prefix for one-millionth, one microsecond equals 0.000 001 s.