Electrical and electronic principles and technology / John Bird.

By:

Bird, J. O., John Owen, 1945-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Newnes, 2003.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 370p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

0750657782

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DDC classification:

621.3 BIR

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this book John Bird introduces electrical principles and technology through examples rather than theory - enabling students to develop a sound understanding of the principles needed by technicians in fields such as electrical engineering, electronics and telecommunications. No previous background in engineering is assumed, making this an ideal text for vocational courses and introductory courses for undergraduates.
This new edition of Electrical and Electronic Principles and Technology has been brought fully in line with the new BTEC National specifications in the U.K. for the units: Electrical and Electronic Principles and Further Electrical and Electronic Principles, and the corresponding AVCE units. It is also designed to cover the requirements of Intermediate GNVQ and the new BTEC First specifications.
At intervals through the text assessment papers are provided, which are ideal for tests or homeworks. These are the only problems where answers are not provided in the book, but fully worked solutions are available to lecturers only as a free download from the password-protected tutor's area of newnespress.com.
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Previous ed.: 2000.

Includes index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Preface (p. ix)
Section 1 Basic Electrical and Electronic Engineering Principles (p. 1)
1 Units associated with basic electrical quantities (p. 3)
1.1 SI units (p. 3)
1.2 Charge (p. 3)
1.3 Force (p. 4)
1.4 Work (p. 4)
1.5 Power (p. 4)
1.6 Electrical potential and e.m.f. (p. 5)
1.7 Resistance and conductance (p. 5)
1.8 Electrical power and energy (p. 6)
1.9 Summary of terms, units and their symbols (p. 7)
2 An introduction to electric circuits (p. 9)
2.1 Electrical/electronic system block diagrams (p. 9)
2.2 Standard symbols for electrical components (p. 10)
2.3 Electric current and quantity of electricity (p. 10)
2.4 Potential difference and resistance (p. 12)
2.5 Basic electrical measuring instruments (p. 12)
2.6 Linear and non-linear devices (p. 12)
2.7 Ohm's law (p. 13)
2.8 Multiples and sub-multiples (p. 13)
2.9 Conductors and insulators (p. 14)
2.10 Electrical power and energy (p. 15)
2.11 Main effects of electric current (p. 17)
2.12 Fuses (p. 18)
3 Resistance variation (p. 20)
3.1 Resistance and resistivity (p. 20)
3.2 Temperature coefficient of resistance (p. 22)
3.3 Resistor colour coding and ohmic values (p. 25)
4 Chemical effects of electricity (p. 29)
4.1 Introduction (p. 29)
4.2 Electrolysis (p. 29)
4.3 Electroplating (p. 30)
4.4 The simple cell (p. 30)
4.5 Corrosion (p. 31)
4.6 E.m.f. and internal resistance of a cell (p. 31)
4.7 Primary cells (p. 34)
4.8 Secondary cells (p. 34)
4.9 Cell capacity (p. 35)
Assignment 1 (p. 38)
5 Series and parallel networks (p. 39)
5.1 Series circuits (p. 39)
5.2 Potential divider (p. 40)
5.3 Parallel networks (p. 42)
5.4 Current division (p. 45)
5.5 Wiring lamps in series and in parallel (p. 49)
6 Capacitors and capacitance (p. 52)
6.1 Electrostatic field (p. 52)
6.2 Electric field strength (p. 53)
6.3 Capacitance (p. 54)
6.4 Capacitors (p. 54)
6.5 Electric flux density (p. 55)
6.6 Permittivity (p. 55)
6.7 The parallel plate capacitor (p. 57)
6.8 Capacitors connected in parallel and series (p. 59)
6.9 Dielectric strength (p. 62)
6.10 Energy stored in capacitors (p. 63)
6.11 Practical types of capacitor (p. 64)
6.12 Discharging capacitors (p. 66)
7 Magnetic circuits (p. 68)
7.1 Magnetic fields (p. 68)
7.2 Magnetic flux and flux density (p. 69)
7.3 Magnetomotive force and magnetic field strength (p. 70)
7.4 Permeability and B-H curves (p. 70)
7.5 Reluctance (p. 73)
7.6 Composite series magnetic circuits (p. 74)
7.7 Comparison between electrical and magnetic quantities (p. 77)
7.8 Hysteresis and hysteresis loss (p. 77)
Assignment 2 (p. 81)
8 Electromagnetism (p. 82)
8.1 Magnetic field due to an electric current (p. 82)
8.2 Electromagnets (p. 84)
8.3 Force on a current-carrying conductor (p. 85)
8.4 Principle of operation of a simple d.c. motor (p. 89)
8.5 Principle of operation of a moving-coil instrument (p. 89)
8.6 Force on a charge (p. 90)
9 Electromagnetic induction (p. 93)
9.1 Introduction to electromagnetic induction (p. 93)
9.2 Laws of electromagnetic induction (p. 94)
9.3 Inductance (p. 97)
9.4 Inductors (p. 98)
9.5 Energy stored (p. 99)
9.6 Inductance of a coil (p. 99)
9.7 Mutual inductance (p. 101)
10 Electrical measuring instruments and measurements (p. 104)
10.1 Introduction (p. 104)
10.2 Analogue instruments (p. 105)
10.3 Moving-iron instrument (p. 105)
10.4 The moving-coil rectifier instrument (p. 105)
10.5 Comparison of moving-coil, moving-iron and moving-coil rectifier instruments (p. 106)
10.6 Shunts and multipliers (p. 106)
10.7 Electronic instruments (p. 108)
10.8 The ohmmeter (p. 108)
10.9 Multimeters (p. 109)
10.10 Wattmeters (p. 109)
10.11 Instrument 'loading' effect (p. 109)
10.12 The cathode ray oscilloscope (p. 111)
10.13 Waveform harmonics (p. 114)
10.14 Logarithmic ratios (p. 115)
10.15 Null method of measurement (p. 118)
10.16 Wheatstone bridge (p. 118)
10.17 D.C. potentiometer (p. 119)
10.18 A.C. bridges (p. 120)
10.19 Q-meter (p. 121)
10.20 Measurement errors (p. 122)
11 Semiconductor diodes (p. 127)
11.1 Types of materials (p. 127)
11.2 Silicon and germanium (p. 127)
11.3 n-type and p-type materials (p. 128)
11.4 The p-n junction (p. 129)
11.5 Forward and reverse bias (p. 129)
11.6 Semiconductor diodes (p. 130)
11.7 Rectification (p. 132)
12 Transistors (p. 136)
12.1 The bipolar junction transistor (p. 136)
12.2 Transistor action (p. 137)
12.3 Transistor symbols (p. 139)
12.4 Transistor connections (p. 139)
12.5 Transistor characteristics (p. 140)
12.6 The transistor as an amplifier (p. 142)
12.7 The load line (p. 144)
12.8 Current and voltage gains (p. 145)
12.9 Thermal runaway (p. 147)
Assignment 3 (p. 152)
Formulae for basic electrical and electronic engineering principles (p. 153)
Section 2 Further Electrical and Electronic Principles (p. 155)
13 D.C. circuit theory (p. 157)
13.1 Introduction (p. 157)
13.2 Kirchhoff's laws (p. 157)
13.3 The superposition theorem (p. 161)
13.4 General d.c. circuit theory (p. 164)
13.5 Thevenin's theorem (p. 166)
13.6 Constant-current source (p. 171)
13.7 Norton's theorem (p. 172)
13.8 Thevenin and Norton equivalent networks (p. 175)
13.9 Maximum power transfer theorem (p. 179)
14 Alternating voltages and currents (p. 183)
14.1 Introduction (p. 183)
14.2 The a.c. generator (p. 183)
14.3 Waveforms (p. 184)
14.4 A.C. values (p. 185)
14.5 The equation of a sinusoidal waveform (p. 189)
14.6 Combination of waveforms (p. 191)
14.7 Rectification (p. 194)
Assignment 4 (p. 197)
15 Single-phase series a.c. circuits (p. 198)
15.1 Purely resistive a.c. circuit (p. 198)
15.2 Purely inductive a.c. circuit (p. 198)
15.3 Purely capacitive a.c. circuit (p. 199)
15.4 R-L series a.c. circuit (p. 201)
15.5 R-C series a.c. circuit (p. 204)
15.6 R-L-C series a.c. circuit (p. 206)
15.7 Series resonance (p. 209)
15.8 Q-factor (p. 210)
15.9 Bandwidth and selectivity (p. 212)
15.10 Power in a.c. circuits (p. 213)
15.11 Power triangle and power factor (p. 214)
16 Single-phase parallel a.c. circuits (p. 219)
16.1 Introduction (p. 219)
16.2 R-L parallel a.c. circuit (p. 219)
16.3 R-C parallel a.c. circuit (p. 220)
16.4 L-C parallel a.c. circuit (p. 222)
16.5 LR-C parallel a.c. circuit (p. 223)
16.6 Parallel resonance and Q-factor (p. 226)
16.7 Power factor improvement (p. 230)
17 Filter networks (p. 236)
17.1 Introduction (p. 236)
17.2 Two-port networks and characteristic impedance (p. 236)
17.3 Low-pass filters (p. 237)
17.4 High-pass filters (p. 240)
17.5 Band-pass filters (p. 244)
17.6 Band-stop filters (p. 245)
18 D.C. transients (p. 248)
18.1 Introduction (p. 248)
18.2 Charging a capacitor (p. 248)
18.3 Time constant for a C-R circuit (p. 249)
18.4 Transient curves for a C-R circuit (p. 250)
18.5 Discharging a capacitor (p. 253)
18.6 Current growth in an L-R circuit (p. 255)
18.7 Time constant for an L-R circuit (p. 256)
18.8 Transient curves for an L-R circuit (p. 256)
18.9 Current decay in an L-R circuit (p. 257)
18.10 Switching inductive circuits (p. 260)
18.11 The effects of time constant on a rectangular waveform (p. 260)
19 Operational amplifiers (p. 264)
19.1 Introduction to operational amplifiers (p. 264)
19.2 Some op amp parameters (p. 266)
19.3 Op amp inverting amplifier (p. 267)
19.4 Op amp non-inverting amplifier (p. 269)
19.5 Op amp voltage-follower (p. 270)
19.6 Op amp summing amplifier (p. 271)
19.7 Op amp voltage comparator (p. 272)
19.8 Op amp integrator (p. 272)
19.9 Op amp differential amplifier (p. 274)
19.10 Digital to analogue (D/A) conversion (p. 276)
19.11 Analogue to digital (A/D) conversion (p. 276)
Assignment 5 (p. 281)
Formulae for further electrical and electronic engineering principles (p. 283)
Section 3 Electrical Power Technology (p. 285)
20 Three-phase systems (p. 287)
20.1 Introduction (p. 287)
20.2 Three-phase supply (p. 287)
20.3 Star connection (p. 288)
20.4 Delta connection (p. 291)
20.5 Power in three-phase systems (p. 293)
20.6 Measurement of power in three-phase systems (p. 295)
20.7 Comparison of star and delta connections (p. 300)
20.8 Advantages of three-phase systems (p. 300)
21 Transformers (p. 303)
21.1 Introduction (p. 303)
21.2 Transformer principle of operation (p. 304)
21.3 Transformer no-load phasor diagram (p. 306)
21.4 E.m.f. equation of a transformer (p. 308)
21.5 Transformer on-load phasor diagram (p. 310)
21.6 Transformer construction (p. 311)
21.7 Equivalent circuit of a transformer (p. 312)
21.8 Regulation of a transformer (p. 313)
21.9 Transformer losses and efficiency (p. 314)
21.10 Resistance matching (p. 317)
21.11 Auto transformers (p. 319)
21.12 Isolating transformers (p. 321)
21.13 Three-phase transformers (p. 321)
21.14 Current transformers (p. 323)
21.15 Voltage transformers (p. 324)
Assignment 6 (p. 327)
22 D.C. machines (p. 328)
22.1 Introduction (p. 328)
22.2 The action of a commutator (p. 329)
22.3 D.C. machine construction (p. 329)
22.4 Shunt, series and compound windings (p. 330)
22.5 E.m.f. generated in an armature winding (p. 330)
22.6 D.C. generators (p. 332)
22.7 Types of d.c. generator and their characteristics (p. 333)
22.8 D.C. machine losses (p. 337)
22.9 Efficiency of a d.c. generator (p. 337)
22.10 D.C. motors (p. 338)
22.11 Torque of a d.c. motor (p. 339)
22.12 Types of d.c. motor and their characteristics (p. 341)
22.13 The efficiency of a d.c. motor (p. 344)
22.14 D.C. motor starter (p. 347)
22.15 Speed control of d.c. motors (p. 347)
22.16 Motor cooling (p. 350)
23 Three-phase induction motors (p. 354)
23.1 Introduction (p. 354)
23.2 Production of a rotating magnetic field (p. 354)
22.3 Synchronous speed (p. 356)
23.4 Construction of a three-phase induction motor (p. 357)
23.5 Principle of operation of a three-phase induction motor (p. 358)
23.6 Slip (p. 358)
23.7 Rotor e.m.f. and frequency (p. 359)
23.8 Rotor impedance and current (p. 360)
23.9 Rotor copper loss (p. 361)
22.10 Induction motor losses and efficiency (p. 361)
23.11 Torque equation for an induction motor (p. 363)
23.12 Induction motor torque-speed characteristics (p. 366)
23.13 Starting methods for induction motors (p. 367)
23.14 Advantages of squirrel-cage induction motors (p. 367)
23.15 Advantages of wound rotor induction motors (p. 368)
23.16 Double cage induction motor (p. 369)
23.17 Uses of three-phase induction motors (p. 369)
Assignment 7 (p. 372)
Formulae for electrical power technology (p. 373)
Answers to multi-choice questions (p. 375)
Index (p. 377)