Electricity: A Self-Teaching Guide

Description

Learn electricity at your own pace

What makes a light bulb work? What overloads a fuse? How does amagnetic field differ from an electrical field? With Electricity: ASelf-Teaching Guide, you'll discover the answers to these questionsand many more about this powerful, versatile force that everyoneuses, yet most of us don't understand.

Ralph Morrison demystifies electricity, taking you through thebasics step by step. Significantly updated to cover the latest inelectrical technology, this easy-to-use guide makes familiar theworkings of voltage, current, resistance, power, and other circuitvalues. You'll discover where electricity comes from, how electricfields cause current to flow, how we harness its tremendous power, and how best to avoid the various pitfalls in many practicalapplications when the time comes for you to put your knowledge towork. The clearly structured format of Electricity makes it fullyaccessible, providing an easily understood, comprehensive overviewfor everyone from the student to the engineer to thehobbyist.

Like all Self-Teaching Guides, Electricity allows you to buildgradually on what you have learned-at your own pace. Questions andself-tests reinforce the information in each chapter and allow youto skip ahead or focus on specific areas of concern. Packed withuseful, up-to-date information, this clear, concise volume is avaluable learning tool and reference source for anyone who wants toimprove his or her understanding of basic electricity.

About the author

RALPH MORRISON is a consultant and lecturer in the area of electronics and interference control. He has more than thirty years of design and consulting experience, and was president of Instrum, Inc., for more than a decade. He is the author of The Fields of Electronics; Grounding and Shielding Techniques, fourth Edition; Noise and Other Interfering Signals; Grounding and Shielding in Facilities; and Solving Interference Problems in Electronics, all from Wiley.