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Electrical Engineering Fundamentals Textbook

A free, self-paced textbook in 8 chapters. Read a chapter, then drill it with the 100 companion flashcards using spaced repetition.

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Chapters

  1. 1Foundational Laws: Ohm's Law, Power, and Kirchhoff's Laws

    Ohm's law is the cornerstone of circuit analysis, expressing the linear relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in a resistive element. Mathematically, \(V = IR\), wh...

  2. 2AC Fundamentals and Resistor Networks

    Electrical current comes in two principal forms. Direct current (DC) flows steadily in one constant direction and is the type produced by batteries. Alternating current (AC) period...

  3. 3Energy Storage Components: Capacitors and Inductors

    A capacitor is a passive component that stores energy in an electric field established between two conductive plates separated by a dielectric insulator. The amount of charge store...

  4. 4Transient Response and Resonance

    When a circuit containing an energy-storage element is switched on or off, voltages and currents do not jump to their final values immediately but instead change exponentially over...

  5. 5Active Components: Transistors and Operational Amplifiers

    The transistor is a semiconductor device that can amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power. The two principal families are the Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) an...

  6. 6Digital Electronics: Logic Gates, Memory, and Converters

    Digital electronics rests on Boolean logic gates that operate on binary signals. The AND gate outputs 1 only when all of its inputs are 1, expressed as \(Y = A \cdot B\). The OR ga...

  7. 7Power Systems, Transformers, and Power Quality

    Most of the world's electrical power is generated, transmitted, and distributed as alternating current. Three-phase power systems use three AC voltages offset from one another by 1...

  8. 8Signals, Filters, Electromagnetics, and Circuit Theorems

    Signal processing relies on the Nyquist sampling theorem, which states that to accurately reconstruct a signal, it must be sampled at least twice as fast as its highest frequency c...

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