Lab Manual For Dc Ac Fundamentals

This is a student supplement associated with: DC/AC Fundamentals: A Systems Approach, 1/e Thomas L. Floyd David Buchla ISBN: 0132933934

For courses in Electronics and Electricity Technology DC/AC Fundamentals: A Systems Approach takes a broader view of DC/AC circuits than most standard texts, providing relevance to basic theory by stressing applications of dc/ac circuits in actual systems.

Featuring a total of 15 experiments, this laboratory manual fully addresses the field of DC electrical circuit analysis. It begins with an introduction to a standard electrical laboratory and progresses through basic measurements of voltage and current to series, parallel and series-parallel resistive circuit configurations. More advanced topics include the superposition technique for multi-source circuits, nodal analysis, mesh analysis, Thévenin's Theorem, maximum power transfer, and an introduction to capacitors and inductors. Each experiment includes a theory overview, electrical component parts list and test equipment inventory. Most exercises may be completed with just a digital multimeter and a dual output DC power supply. This is the print version of the on-line OER.

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