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Author:   John Bird (Defence College of Technical Training, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   7th edition
Weight:   2.420kg
ISBN:  

9780367672225

ISBN 10:   0367672227
Pages:   912
Publication Date:   01 October 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Adult education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Section 1 Revision of Some Basic Mathematics 1. Some Mathematics Revisio 2. Further Mathematics Revision Section 2 Basic Electrical and Electronic Engineering Principles 3. Units associated with basic electrical quantities 4. An introduction to electric circuits 5. Resistance variation 6. Batteries and alternative sources of energy 7. Series and parallel networks 8. Capacitors and capacitance 9. Magnetic circuits 10. Electromagnetism 11. Electromagnetic induction 12. Electrical measuring instruments and measurements 13. Semiconductor diodes 14. Transistors Section 3 Electrical Principles and Technology 15. D.c. circuit theory 16. Alternating voltages and currents 17. Single-phase series a.c. circuits 18. Single-phase parallel a.c. circuits 19. D.c. transients 20. Operational amplifiers 21. Global climate change and the future of electricity generation 22. Three-phase systems 23. Transformers 24. D.c. machines 25. Three-phase induction motors Section 4 Advanced circuit theory and technology 26. Revision of complex numbers 27. Application of complex numbers to series a.c. circuits 28. Application of complex numbers to parallel a.c. circuits 29. Power in a.c. circuits 30. A.c. bridges 31. Series resonance and Q-factor 32. Parallel resonance and Q-factor 33. Introduction to network analysis 34. Mesh-current and nodal analysis 35. The superposition theorem 36. Thévenin’s and Norton’s theorems 37. Delta-star and star-delta transformations 38. Maximum power transfer theorems and impedance matching 39. Complex waveforms 40. A numerical method of harmonic analysis 41. Magnetic materials 42. Dielectrics and dielectric loss 43. Field theory 44. Attenuators 45. Filter networks 46. Magnetically coupled circuits 47. Transmission lines 48. Transients and Laplace transforms Section 5 General reference

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John Bird, BSc (Hons), CEng, CMath, CSci, FIMA, FIET, FCollT, is the former Head of Applied Electronics in the Faculty of Technology at Highbury College, Portsmouth, UK. More recently, he has combined freelance lecturing at the University of Portsmouth, with Examiner responsibilities for Advanced Mathematics with City and Guilds and examining for the International Baccalaureate Organisation. He has over 45 years’ experience of successfully teaching, lecturing, instructing, training, educating, and planning of trainee engineers study programmes. He is the author of 146 textbooks on engineering, science, and mathematical subjects, with worldwide sales of over one million copies. He is a chartered engineer, a chartered mathematician, a chartered scientist and a Fellow of three professional institutions. He has recently retired from lecturing at the Royal Navy’s Defence College of Marine Engineering in the Defence College of Technical Training at H.M.S. Sultan, Gosport, Hampshire, UK, one of the largest engineering training establishments in Europe.

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