Electronics
Principles of Electric Circuits
Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2006, 976pp, 8th ed.
Floyd's textbook provides an exceptionally clear introduction to DC/AC electric circuits supported by superior exercises, examples, and illustrations, with an emphasis on troubleshooting and applications. Throughout the textbook's coverage, the use of mathematics is limited to only those concepts that are needed for understanding.
Table of contents
| 1 | Components, Quantities, and Units | 1 |
| 2 | Voltage, Current, and Resistance | 20 |
| 3 | Ohm's Law | 70 |
| 4 | Energy and Power | 94 |
| 5 | Series Circuits | 116 |
| 6 | Parallel Circuits | 170 |
| 7 | Series-Parallel Circuits | 224 |
| 8 | Circuit Theorems and Conversions | 276 |
| 9 | Branch, Mesh, and Node Analysis | 332 |
| 10 | Magnetism and Electromagnetism | 362 |
| 11 | Introduction to Alternating Current and Voltage | 400 |
| 12 | Phasors and Complex Numbers | 458 |
| 13 | Capacitors | 486 |
| 14 | Inductors | 548 |
| 15 | Transformers | 590 |
| 16 | RC Circuits | 632 |
| 17 | RL Circuits | 698 |
| 18 | RLC Circuits and Resonance | 744 |
| 19 | Basic Filters | 796 |
| 20 | Circuit Theorems in AC Analysis | 830 |
| 21 | Pulse Response of Reactive Circuits | 868 |
| 22 | Polyphase Systems in Power Applications | 914 |
| App. A | Table of Standard Resistor Values | 945 |
| App. B | Batteries | 946 |
| App. C | Derivations | 949 |
| App. D | Capacitor Color Coding | 952 |
| Answers to Self-Tests | 953 | |
| Answers to Selected Odd-Numbered Problems | 955 | |
| Glossary | 964 | |
| Index | 970 |