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Introduction to Electrical Engineering
CygnusZ
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I'm looking for a college level Electrical Engineering 101 textbook. Something with a very broad scope that will give me a little taste of the various sub-specialities in the field. I'm not looking to go back to college or even get certification, I just want to be able to understand the subject on a basic level and learn at least a good chunk of EE jargon.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
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Can you read diagrams and resistors? Calculate the total resistance in a parallel circuit? Pretty broad subject, like the man said... but I'd say something that does those things would be a great place to start. In highschool we had a pretty cool program that would let you design a circuit and then test it. It also had about 15 circuits (for things like radios and stuff) that it could randomly fail a part of, and then ask you to troubleshoot by signal injection and a virtual mulitmeter. It would score you based on the number of things you had to do to solve the problem too... I miss that.
If anyone finds the name of that program as a part of this, I'd be very interested in knowing as well.
edit: I think it was "something" lab. I'm sure that doesn't help.
So yeah. If you haven't had a year of college-level physics recently and aren't proficient in Calculus, I'd look elsewhere, but the book does cover most of the EE basics I'd say. Basic circuit equivalence transformations, Thevenin circuits, time-to-frequency domain conversions, Laplace transform solutions, bandpass filters, fourier series.
It has been the standard at my school for quite some time and the professor who teaches the course is rather good. It covers AC, DC, Power, Signals, Systems, Phasors, Laplace, Digital, FETs and all the goodies in between.
As said you will need some calculus for AC signal analysis, but the book does a decent job of explaining that topic as well as a decent introduction to Laplace transforms. I still carry my copy around with me, but of course your mileage may vary.
It's specifically for electric circuits, but it's online and it's free.
I've been reading a bit on the site JAEF recommended. One problem though: there are about a billion versions of SPICE floating around.
Help?
I personally use LTSpice. Not as famous as, say, PSpice, but it works just as well.
that's the one you're looking for. it's the most updated version of the most popular EE textbook out there for intro students.
the last edition is fine, too, if you can find it cheaper.