Essential Electric Circuits is the result of the author\'s teaching of Electric circuits courses for more than twenty years.
In digital circuits, the presence or absence of a voltage dictates logic st.
Voltages are the predominant variable in most Electric circuits.
Nodal Analysis is covered because it solves for voltages, not currents.
These Analysis tools are seldom used in practice for hand calculations and because it is the Analysis approach underlying most circuit Analysis software.
To cite just one example among many, nodal Analysis is covered, but mesh Analysis is not.
And by excluding the excruciating detail, students will more likely retain the Essential aspects they need.
The philosophy for this is that students need to take the Essential concepts with them in their careers, but they do not carry the excruciating detail with them, even if it is covered in circuits courses.
Much of the excruciating detail found in traditional texts is absent.
The fundamental aspects of DC, transient, and AC circuits are covered.
Based on these observations, Essential Electric Circuits covers only the Essential aspects of Electric circuits.
Fifth, this text recognizes that textbooks have become outrageously priced.
There simply is not enough time available, given the need to adequately cover higher level concepts that are needed in the workplace.
Fourth, this text recognizes that Electric circuits can no longer be a central focus of the curriculum.
Third, this text recognizes that modern computing tools have largely eliminated the need for being able to solve Electric circuits by hand.
As a result, analog circuit Design in a digital world focuses on analog signal conditioning and translation prior to conversion to digital, and also in the translation and conditioning of analog signals arising from digital signals.
Second, this text recognizes that many analog circuits have been replaced by digital circuits in many applications.
Rather, real world circuit Analysis and Design focuses much more on the selection of integrated circuits and on the creation of circuits that interface integrated circuits to one another.
In practice, circuit Analysis and Design has largely moved away from the focus on Analysis and Design of small circuits.
First, this text recognizes that very few engineers need the breadth and depth found in traditional texts.
Rather than simply try to replicate the material in established texts, this text takes a different approach, for several reasons.
Essential Electric Circuits is the result of the author\'s teaching of Electric circuits courses for more than twenty years
