Circuit Analysis with PSpice: A Simplified Approach

Electric circuits, and their electronic circuit extensions, are found in all electrical and electronic equipment; including: household equipment, lighting, heating, air conditioning, control systems in both homes and commercial buildings, computers, consumer electronics, and means of transportation, such as cars, buses, trains, ships, and airplanes. Electric circuit analysis is essential for designing all these systems.

Electric circuit analysis is a foundation for all hardware courses taken by students in electrical engineering and allied fields, such as electronics, computer hardware, communications and control systems, and electric power. This book is intended to help students master basic electric circuit analysis, as an essential component of their professional education. Furthermore, the objective of this book is to approach circuit analysis by developing a sound understanding of fundamentals and a problem-solving methodology that encourages critical thinking.

Table of Contents

Part I: Basic Concepts in Circuit Analysis
Chapter 1 Preliminaries to Circuit Analysis
Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Resistive Circuits
Chapter 3 Circuit Equivalence
Chapter 4 Circuit Theorems
Chapter 5 Circuit Simplification
Chapter 6 Circuit Equations
Chapter 7 Capacitors, Inductors, and Duality
Chapter 8 Sinusoidal Steady State
Chapter 9 Linear Transformer
Chapter 10 Ideal Transformers
Chapter 11 Basic Responses of First-Order Circuits
Chapter 12 Basic Responses of Second-Order Circuits

Part II: Topics in Circuit Analysis
Chapter 13 Ideal Operational Amplifier
Chapter 14 Frequency Responses
Chapter 15 Butterworth and Active Filters
Chapter 16 Responses to Periodic Inputs
Chapter 17 Real, Reactive, and Complex Power
Chapter 18 Responses to Step and Impulse Inputs
Chapter 19 Switched Circuits with Initial Energy Storage
Chapter 20 Convolution
Chapter 21 Properties of the Laplace Transform
Chapter 22 Laplace Transform in Circuit Analysis
Chapter 23 Fourier Transform
Chapter 24 Two-Port Circuits
Chapter 25 Balanced Three-Phase Systems

Appendix A: SI Units, Symbols, and Prefixes
Appendix B: Useful Mathematical Relations
Appendix C: PSpice Simulation
Appendix D: Complex Numbers and Algebra
Appendix E: Solution of Linear Simultaneous Equations