Schaum's Outline of Basic Electricity

This is a good book for electronics technicians who want to cover the basics of electricity that they would need in their assembly and test work. The table of contents is not shown for this book so I do that next. An asterisk indicates an entirely new chapter from the previous edition: 1. The Nature of Electricity 2. Electrical Standards and Conventions 3. Ohm's Law and Power 4. Direct-Current Series Circuits 5. Direct-Current Parallel Circuits 6. Batteries 7. Kirchoff's Laws 8. Determinant Solutions for DC Networks* 9. Network Calculations 10. Magnetism and Electromagnetism 11. Direct-Current Generators and Motors 12. Principles of Alternating Current 13. Inductance, Inductive Reactance, and Inductive Circuits 14. Capacitance, Capacitive Reactance, and Capacitive Circuits 15. Single-Phase Circuits 16. Alternating-Current Generators and Motors 17. Complex Numbers and Complex Impedence for Series AC Circuits* 18. AC Circuit Analysis with Complex Numbers* 19. Transformers 20. Three-Phase Systems 21. Series and Parallel Resonance 22. Waveforms and Time Constants This second edition is 140 pages longer than the first, and emphasizes more circuit analysis and calculations than the previous edition, although it is still too simplistic for engineers. This new emphasis on mathematics is probably due to the fact that the electronics technician no longer just wires boards together as was done in 1983. There is much less hardware construction and more emphasis on design in the field today.