Publisher's Synopsis
Teaching the foundations of electric circuits in a way which develops students' problem-solving abilities, this textbook covers all the basics using only the maths which is necessary to understand the fundamentals of the subject. Franco introduces ideal transformers and amplifiers early on, then moves to extensive coverage of the operational amplifier to provide a practical illustration of abstract but fundamental concepts such as impedance transformation and root location control. SPICE is referred to throughout as a means for checking the results of hand-calculations, and in end-of-chapter sections which introduce the most important SPICE features. With hundreds of exercises and problems included, this text helps develop an engineering approach to problem solving based on conceptual understanding and physical intuition rather that on rote procedures.