Schaum's Outline of Basic Electricity, Second Edition (Schaum's Outline Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a good book for electronics technicians who want to cover the basics of electricity that they would need in their assembly and test work. The table of contents is not shown for this book so I do that next. An asterisk indicates an entirely new chapter from the previous edition:
1. The Nature of Electricity
2. Electrical Standards and Conventions
3. Ohm's Law and Power
4. Direct-Current Series Circuits
5. Direct-Current Parallel Circuits
6. Batteries
7. Kirchoff's Laws
8. Determinant Solutions for DC Networks*
9. Network Calculations
10. Magnetism and Electromagnetism
11. Direct-Current Generators and Motors
12. Principles of Alternating Current
13. Inductance, Inductive Reactance, and Inductive Circuits
14. Capacitance, Capacitive Reactance, and Capacitive Circuits
15. Single-Phase Circuits
16. Alternating-Current Generators and Motors
17. Complex Numbers and Complex Impedence for Series AC Circuits*
18. AC Circuit Analysis with Complex Numbers*
19. Transformers
20. Three-Phase Systems
21. Series and Parallel Resonance
22. Waveforms and Time Constants
This second edition is 140 pages longer than the first, and emphasizes more circuit analysis and calculations than the previous edition, although it is still too simplistic for engineers. This new emphasis on mathematics is probably due to the fact that the electronics technician no longer just wires boards together as was done in 1983. There is much less hardware construction and more emphasis on design in the field today.

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Schaum's Outline of Basic Electricity covers the fundamentals of electricity and electric circuits.Written as a complement to vocational and technical courses, the book reviews digital and computer technology and the more advanced level of expertise required of technicians in these fields. Chapters focus on particular subjects as they are related to electric circuits, so you can target specific areas or tackle the subject as a whole. You will also learn how to solve circuit values in more complex series and parallel circuits.

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