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Frank Petruzella's Electricity for the Trades sets the standard for textbooks on electrical training. Frank Petruzella is a tradesman with more than 30 years of experience. This well-illustrated text provides an excellent foundation of electrical and electronic principles. This text prepares students for specialization in the electrical trades or one of the many related trades that require a special understanding of electrical fundamentals.
Section 1 Fundamentals of Electricity
1. Safety
2. Atoms and Electricity
3. Sources and Characteristics of Electricity
4. Electrical Quantities and OHM's Law
5. Simple, Series, and Parallel Circuits
6. Measuring Voltage, Current, and Resistance
7. OHM's Law
8. Resistors
9. Electricity and Magnetism
10. Electric Power and Energy
Section 2 Direct Current (DC) Circuits
11. Solving The DC Series Circuit
12. Solving The DC Parallel Circuit
13. Solving The DC Series-Parallel Circuit
14. Network Theorems
Section 3 Alternating Current (AC) Circuits
15. Alternating Current Fundamentals
16. Inductance and Capacitance
17. Resistive, Inductive, Capacitive (RLC) Series Circuits
18. Resistive, Inductive, Capacitive (RLC) Parallel Circuits
19. Transformers
Section 4 Electrical Installation and Maintenance
20. Circuit Conductors and Wire Sizes
21. Fuses and Circuit Breakers
22. Relays
23. Lighting Equipment
24. Electric Motors and Controls
25. Electric Control
26. Appendix: Multisim Simulation Lab Manual