Özet

The express aim of the book is to prepare students for a full degree course in electrical engineering or physics, requiring no prior knowledge of electricity and only minimal knowledge of mathematics. The coverage begins by introducing electric charge as something that explains the experimental results of rubbing materials with a piece of cloth. Next, the idea of electric charge in motion is introduced, followed by the notion of electricity. After introducing resistance and its effects on a circuit, increasingly sophisticated concepts and methods are introduced - such as Kirchhof's laws, Thevenin's laws, the beginnings of electromagnetism, capacitance effects and alternating current. The book is completed by an elementary introduction to semiconductor theory and a discussion of diodes and transistors.