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Print Price: $64.99

Format:
Spiral Bound
224 pp.
74 Tables; 163 Figures, 8.5" x 11"

ISBN-13:
9780199031467

Copyright Year:
2019

Imprint: OUP Canada


Introduction to Electric Circuits

Lab Manual, Tenth Edition

Karen Craigs and Lauren Fuentes

First published in 1959, Herbert Jackson's Introduction to Electric Circuits is a core text for introductory circuit analysis courses taught in electronics and electrical engineering technology programs. This lab manual, created to accompany the main text, contains a collection of experiments chosen to cover the main topics taught in foundational courses in electrical engineering programs.

Experiments can all be done with inexpensive test equipment and circuit components. Each lab concludes with questions to test students' comprehension of the theoretical concepts illustrated by the experimental results. The manual is formatted to enable it to double as a workbook, to allow students to answer questions directly in the lab manual if a formal lab write-up is not required.

Readership : Introduction to Electric Circuits is a core text for introductory circuit analysis courses taught primarily in college electronics and electrical engineering technology programs. This text is the lab manual to accompany that text.

Preface
Equipment and Components List
Experiment 1: Resistor Colour Code and the Ohmmeter
Experiment 2: Ohm's Law
Experiment 3: Resistance in Series
Experiment 4: Resistance in Parallel
Experiment 5: Kirchhoff's Voltage and Current Laws
Experiment 6: The Series-Parallel Circuit
Experiment 7: The Voltage Divider
Experiment 8: Power in DC Circuits and Maximum Power Transfer
Experiment 9: Mesh Analysis
Experiment 10: The Superposition Theorem
Experiment 11: Thévenin's Theorem
Experiment 12: The DC Ammeter and Voltmeter
Experiment 13: Capacitor Charging and Discharging
Experiment 14: Oscilloscope and Function Generator Operation
Experiment 15: Oscilloscope Voltage and Frequency Measurements
Experiment 16: Peak and RMS AC Voltages
Experiment 17: Capacitive Reactance
Experiment 18: Series and Parallel Capacitors
Experiment 19: Series and Parallel Inductors
Experiment 20: Inductive Reactance
Experiment 21: The Series RL Circuit
Experiment 22: The Series RC Circuit
Experiment 23: Effect of Frequency Changes on a Reactive Circuit
Experiment 24: The Series RLC Circuit
Experiment 25: Resonance of a Series RLC circuit
Experiment 26: Quality Factor and Bandwidth of a Resonant Circuit
Experiment 27: Passive Filters

n/a (Though there is Lab Manual support in the Instructor's Manual, which comes with the main text Introduction to Electric Circuits)

Karen Craigs is an instructor of electronics engineering at an Ontario College.

Lauren Fuentes is an instructor of engineering at Durham College and serves as the coordinator of Durham College's Electronics Engineering Technician program.

Introduction to Electric Circuits - The late Herbert W. Jackson, Dale Temple, Brian Kelly, Karen Craigs and Lauren Fuentes
Making Sense in Engineering and the Technical Sciences - Margot Northey and Judi Jewinski

Special Features

  • Coverage of AC and DC Motors and Filters. The lab manual has been revised to illustrate the updated material in Introduction to Electric Circuits 10e, including several DC and AC experiments.
  • Designed for Students. Designed with students in mind, the text is spiral-bound for ease of use, has been formatted to allow students to use it as a workbook - including space to record experimental results, and grids for graphing when necessary - and includes only labs carefully designed to require inexpensive equipment.
  • Accessible. Each lab contains clear objectives, a brief summary of the necessary concepts to understand the experiment being conducted, illustrated instructions for use of equipment (such as ammeters), detailed procedural instructions with tips to ensure that students complete labs smoothly and effectively, and questions that allow students to check their understanding of the key concepts being illustrated by each lab.
  • Instructor-Friendly. A summary of all equipment and components required to run every lab in the book is included to make preparing for the term as easy as possible. In addition, the Instructor's Manual (which comes with Introduction to Electric Circuits) includes tips on things to look out for or emphasize with students when running these experiments in order to ensure safe, efficient, and effective lab results.