本书是一本电类专业本科生学习电路基础课程的英文版教材。
本书依据教育部高等学校电子电气基础课程教学指导分委员会制定的电路课程教学基本要求，对原版教材作了适当的改编，使之更适合国内学生的学习。
本书以电路基础知识为主线，着眼于基本分析方法和设计思想，注重前期与后续课程教学环节的衔接，并介绍了计算机辅助分析电路的方法。书中重要概念突出，例题分析详尽，使读者更容易理解和掌握知识内容。
本书的改编过程中征求了熟悉电路教学、具有丰富经验的专家们的意见，准确地把握教材的组织结构、逻辑主线、繁简舍取、深浅得当等要素。全书篇幅适当、逻辑清晰、层次分明、结构紧凑、叙述凝练、示例有趣、习题丰富，非常适合作为国内高校双语教学用书。

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PART 1 DC Circuits
Chapter 1 Basic Concepts
1．1 Introduction
1．2 Systems of Units
1．3 Charge and Current
1．4Voltage
1．5 Power and Energy
1．6 Circuit Elements
1．7 Applications
1．7．1 TV Picture Tube
1．7．2 Electricity Bills
1．8 problem Solving
1．9 Summary
Review Questions
Problems
Chapter 2 Basic Laws
2．1 Introduction
2．2 Ohm's Law
2．3 Nodes， Branches， and Loops
2．4 Kirchhoff's Laws
2．5 Series Resistors and Voltage Division
2．6 Parallel Resistors and Current Division
2．7 Wye-Delta Transformations
2．8 Applications
2．8．1 Lighting Systems
2．8．2 Design of DC Meters
2．9 Summary
Review Questions
Problems
Chapter 3 Methods of Analysis
3．1 Introduction
3．2 Nodal Analysis
3．3 Nodal Analysis with Voltage Sources
3．4 Mesh Analysis
3．5 Mesh Analysis with Current Sources
3．6 tNodal and Mesh Analyses by Inspection
3．7 Nodal Versus Mesh Analysis
3．8 ApplJcations DC Transistor Circuits
3．9 Summary
Review Questions
Problems
Chapter 4 Circuit Theorems
4．1 Introduction
4．2 Linearity Property
4．3 Superposition
4．4 Source Transformation
4．5 Thevenin's Theorem
4．6 Norton's Theorem
4．7 Maximum Power Transfer
4．8 Applications
4．8．1 Source Modeling
4．8．2 Resistance Measurement
4．9 Summary
Review Questions
Problems
Chapter 5 Capacitors and Inductors
5．1 Introduction
5．2 CaPacitors
5．3 Series and Parallel Capacitors
5．4 Inductors
5．5 Series and Parallel Inductors
5．6 Applications
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Chapter 6 First-Order Circuits
Chapter 7 Second-Order Circuits

PART 2 AC Circuits
Chapter 8 Sinusoids and Phasors
Chapter 9 Sinusoidal Steady-State
Chapter 10 AC Power Analysis
Chapter 11 Three-Phase Circuits
Chapter 12 Magnetically Coupled Circuits
Chapter 13 Frequency Response
PART 3 Advanced Circuit Analysis
Chapter 14 The Laplace Transform
Chapter 15 The Fourier Series
Chapter 16 Two-Port Networks
Appendix A Simultaneous Equations and Matrix Inversion
Appendix B Complex Numbers
Appendix C MATLAB
Appendix D Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems

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