Schaum's outline series.

Includes index

'Basic Electricity' delivers a grounding in electricity to technicians in a wide range of fields, including computer repair, telephone installation and repair, and auto mechanics. It includes new chapters along with new sample problems

Previous edition: published as Schaum's outline of theory and problems of basic electricity. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1983

Chapter 1

Nature of Electricity

1 --

Chapter 2

Electrical Standards and Conventions Units

15 --

Chapter 3

Ohm's Law and Power

39 --

Chapter 4

Direct-Current Series Circuits

52 --

Chapter 5

Direct-Current Parallel Circuits

75 --

Chapter 6

Batteries

97 --

Chapter 7

Kirchhoff's Laws

110 --

Chapter 8

Determinant Solutions for DC Networks

128 --

Chapter 9

Network Calculations

153 --

Chapter 10

Magnetism and Electromagnetism

205 --

Chapter 11

Direct-Current Generators and Motors

229 --

Chapter 12

Principles of Alternating Current

252 --

Chapter 13

Inductance, Inductive Reactance, and Inductive Circuits

275 --

Chapter 14

Capacitance, Capacitive Reactance, and Capacitive Circuits

305 --

Chapter 15

Single-Phase Circuits

332 --

Chapter 16

Alternating-Current Generators and Motors

361 --

Chapter 17

Complex Numbers and Complex Impedance for Series AC Circuits

385 --

Chapter 18

AC Circuit Analysis with Complex Numbers

409 --

Chapter 19

Transformers

455 --

Chapter 20

Three-Phase Systems

474 --

Chapter 21

Series and Parallel Resonance

499 --

Chapter 22

Waveforms and Time Constants

524