Linear Circuit Analysis


Preface

Linear Circuit Analysis is a fundamental course in electrical engineering that most students need to take in their first year in the program. In fact, the course covers such fundamental topics that, most often, students from other engineering areas such as computer, industrial, power, or manufacturing engineering also need to take it as an introduction to electrical engineering.

This webbook is designed to be used by students solving problems on the CircuitsU website. The webbook is slightly different from other books or materials in linear circuit analysis that you can find online. First, the webbook is written in a concise manner to make students spend a minimum amount of time learning the different topics on linear circuits and be able to spend more time practicing problems on their own. For this reason, just by browsing the pages of the webbook might not be sufficient to master all the topics on linear circuits (like a regular textbook is supposed to do) and students might need to first look at the Sample Solved Problems sections that appears at the of most section, then, practice problems from the Practice Problems sections.

Second, the problems and examples that appear at the end of each section are generated randomly when the page is loaded, so students can look over and practice as many problems as they want. Since the webbook was written specifically for this website, you need to be logged in order to take advantage of the full set of examples and problems that appear in the webbook.

This webbook and the problems that CircuitsU can generate automatically, cover most topics in the Linear Circuit Analysis course taught in undergraduate programs in the U.S. and is organized relatively close to the existing textbooks on linear circuits. Therefore, the instructors can use CircuitsU to teach and assign homework problems in linear circuits.

Finally, please keep in mind that this webbook is still under construction. You might find typos or unfinished sections.