Volume V - Reference

• Chapter 1: USEFUL EQUATIONS AND CONVERSION FACTORS

  • DC circuit equations and laws
  • Series circuit rules
  • Parallel circuit rules
  • Series and parallel component equivalent values
  • Capacitor sizing equation
  • Inductor sizing equation
  • Time constant equations
  • AC circuit equations
  • Decibels
  • Metric prefixes and unit conversions
  • Data
  • Contributors

• Chapter 2: COLOR CODES

  • Resistor Color Codes
  • Wiring Color Codes

• Chapter 3: CONDUCTOR AND INSULATOR TABLES

  • Copper wire gage table
  • Copper wire ampacity table
  • Coefficients of specific resistance
  • Temperature coefficients of resistance
  • Critical temperatures for superconductors
  • Dielectric strengths for insulators
  • Data

• Chapter 4: ALGEBRA REFERENCE

  • Basic identities
  • Arithmetic properties
  • Properties of exponents
  • Radicals
  • Important constants
  • Logarithms
  • Factoring equivalencies
  • The quadratic formula
  • Sequences
  • Factorials
  • Solving simultaneous equations
  • Contributors

• Chapter 5: TRIGONOMETRY REFERENCE

  • Right triangle trigonometry
  • Non-right triangle trigonometry
  • Trigonometric equivalencies
  • Hyperbolic functions
  • Contributors

• Chapter 6: CALCULUS REFERENCE

  • Rules for limits
  • Derivative of a constant
  • Common derivatives
  • e">Derivatives of power functions of e
  • Trigonometric derivatives
  • Rules for derivatives
  • The antiderivative (Indefinite integral)
  • Common antiderivatives
  • e">Antiderivatives of power functions of e
  • Rules for antiderivatives
  • Definite integrals and the fundamental theorem of calculus
  • Differential equations

• SPICE CIRCUIT SIMULATION PROGRAM">Chapter 7: USING THE SPICE CIRCUIT SIMULATION PROGRAM

  • Introduction
  • History of SPICE
  • Fundamentals of SPICE programming
  • The command-line interface
  • Circuit components
  • Analysis options
  • Quirks
  • Example circuits and netlists

• Chapter 8: TROUBLESHOOTING -- THEORY AND PRACTICE

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  • Questions to ask before proceeding
  • General troubleshooting tips
  • Specific troubleshooting techniques
  • Likely failures in proven systems
  • Likely failures in unproven systems
  • Potential pitfalls
  • Contributors

• Chapter 9: CIRCUIT SCHEMATIC SYMBOLS

  • Wires and connections
  • Power sources
  • Resistors
  • Capacitors
  • Inductors
  • Mutual inductors
  • Switches, hand actuated
  • Switches, process actuated
  • Switches, electrically actuated (relays)
  • Connectors
  • Diodes
  • Transistors, bipolar
  • Transistors, junction field-effect (JFET)
  • Transistors, insulated-gate field-effect (IGFET or MOSFET)
  • Transistors, hybrid
  • Thyristors
  • Integrated circuits
  • Electron tubes

• Chapter 10: PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS

  • Table (landscape view)
  • Table (portrait view)
  • Data

• Chapter 11: CONTRIBUTOR LIST

  • How to contribute to this book
  • Credits