S. Bobby Rauf - Electrical Engineering Fundamentals

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Rauf, S. Bobby, 1956- author.

Title: Electrical engineering fundamentals / S. Bobby Rauf.

Description: First edition. | Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2021. |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020037197 (print) | LCCN 2020037198 (ebook) |

ISBN 9780367376086 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429355233 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Electrical engineering.

Classification: LCC TK145 .R38 2021 (print) | LCC TK145 (ebook) |

DDC 621.3dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020037197

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020037198

ISBN: 978-0-367-37608-6 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-35523-3 (ebk)

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to my son Leonardo Leo Rauf

Many, in their quest for knowledge in engineering, find typical textbooks intimidating. Perhaps due to an extensive amount of physics theory, an overwhelming barrage of math and not enough practical applications of the engineering principles, laws, and equations. Therein lies the difference between this text and those voluminous and daunting conventional college engineering textbooks. A brief review of most electrical engineering textbooks will affirm the fact that the study of electrical engineering is replete with concepts, methods, and mathematical techniques that are somewhat more abstract than those employed in non-engineering subjects as well as other engineering disciplines, such as civil, mechanical, environmental, and industrial engineering. This text leads the reader into the more complex and abstract content after explaining the electrical engineering concepts and principles in an easy-to-understand fashion, support by analogies borrowed from day-to-day examples, and other engineering disciplines. Many complex electrical engineering concepts, e.g. low power factor, are examined from multiple perspectives, aided by diagrams, illustrations, and examples that the reader can easily relate to.

This mission to this book is to serve as a resource for exploring and understanding fundamental electrical engineering concepts, principles, analytical, and mathematical strategies.

If your objective as a reader is limited to the acquisition of basic to intermediate knowledge in electrical engineering, then the material in this book should suffice. If, however, the reader wishes to progress their electrical engineering knowledge to advanced level, this book could serve as a useful platform.

As the aphorism goes, a picture is worth a thousand words; this book maximizes the utilization of diagrams, graphs, pictures, and flow charts to facilitate quick and effective comprehension of the concepts of electrical engineering.

In this book, the study of electrical engineering concepts, principles, and analysis techniques is made relatively easy for the reader by inclusion of most of the reference data, in the form of excerpts from different parts of the book, within the discussion of each case study, exercise, and self-assessment problem solutions. This is in an effort to facilitate quick study and comprehension of the material without repetitive search for reference data in other parts of the book.

Certain electrical engineering concepts and terms are explained more than once as these concepts appear in different chapters of this text, often with a slightly different perspective.