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Electricity: Principles and Applications

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This book is written in the standard format for a classroom environment, which makes it very easy to follow and find previously read topics you may have forgotten. However, some sections would be easier to learn with the aid of a teacher; although, it is still possible to learn the material without one. This book covers a wide range of topics for electricity, but not many applications of it. Over all, this book provides you with a strong foundation in the electrical field.

Electricity.
This is a subject that is often glossed over or dismissed in favor of Electronics.

A firm grasp of Electricity is needed before one can hope to master Electronics.

This remarkable book does just that. It is written in an intuitive manner allowing a novice to progress through the subject with ease.

For those who work with Electricity for a living, it is a welcome refresher. Even the "Old Salt" who has been doing it for years: there are lots of "Ah Ha's," yet to be discovered.

This Book should not be underestimated or dismissed; it is worth exploring.

And I don't mean typos! This author has no clue about even the most basic concepts of electricity. I've seen hundeds of electicity books over the past three decades, but none include so many false concepts as Fowler's book. He confuses mass with weight, potential with potential energy, potential with force, etc. He includes that big lie that voltage makes current flow (No! Electric force makes charges flow from one voltage level to another.) If you want to be a massively ignorant electrician, this is the book for you. If you want to learn basic electrical concepts, get ANY other book. Better yet, try Thomas Floyd's books-he only makes a couple mistakes in his book. However, if you are up to snuff with your calculus, get a college introductory physics text with several chapters on electricity and avoid all the garbage taught to electrical field workers for the past century...

I have historically been self-taught. Its gotten me far in life. When I decided to get into electricity and green energy, I knew I'd better have a solid foundation of how it all works or I would make too many mistakes in designing systems. I purchased this book and the following book on Electronics because they were recommended by an electronics professor here: [...]

I see that one of the reviewers totally slams this book. In my opinion, I think he's too bent on semantics and high-level academic mindset. If you really want to have that kind of understanding, you better go to school for electrical engineering anyway or at least study electricity as an apprentice, and you better be the type who obsesses over high-level mathematics. I went to an engineering school and realized I completely hate calculus and high level physics. Personally, I think people obsess over academia too much and its remarkable how "dumbed down" people are becoming today that they can't do basic things using some common sense. If you're a DIYer or you're thinking about studying electricity at school but not sure you'd like it, I would recommend this book first. It does a great job of explaining a lot of principles and presenting the math associated with them in a simple way.

In addition to all the necessary principles of electricity, there are some useful explanations of batteries, magnets, and motors.

I read this book as the precursor to the Electronics: Principles and Applications so that I could design my own printed circuit boards.

Electricity : Principles and Applications, Fourth Edition, 1994 by Richard J Fowler
is an excellent book to begin your study of Electricity.

The text has been tested at Vocational Technical High Schools ( eight of them in various States )and Thousands of instructors, students and industrial trainers
have shared their experiences and suggestions with the author.

The author, Richard J Fowler , is a Professor Emeritus at Western Washington University in the State of Washington .

Contents : 1 Basic Concepts 2 Electrical Quantities and Units 3 Basic Circuits, Laws , and Measurements 4 Circuit Components 5 Multiple-Load Circuits 6 Complex-Circuit Analysis 7 Magnetism and Electromagnetism 8 Alternating Current and Voltage
9 Power in AC Circuits 10 Capacitance 11 Inductance 12 Transformers 13 R,C, and L Circuits 14 Electric Motors 15 Instruments and Measurements

Seven Appendixes are added, an Index, Color pictures on almost every page, problem examples,self-tests with answers, lists of review questions, summaries of key concepts, key terms and phrases highlighted.

Get this book if you are serious about learning the basics of Electicity.

390 pages only.

This book is written for someone with a 6th grade education and no more. It talks about magamps for pete's sake. It dosen't even broach the subject of transistors. NO TRANSISTOR THEORY!! What in sakes is electronics if not transistors! The stupid objectives at the beginning of each chapter, and the even worst review problems at the end of each chapter are simply a waste of pages. I am a former nuke electrician from the navy and a current IC Fabrication Technician in the semiconductor industry. I purchased the book to just stay up on my studies, but this book fell way short. My fiancee's daughter has learned almost everything that is covered in this book, and she is only in the 7th grade. Be forewarned, a bad book indeed.