Circuit Analysis

by Abdus Salam

Circuit Analysis has been written for engineering students beginning a course in electrical and computer engineering. General physics and Calculus are considered as pre-requisite for this course. Nowadays, many universities are using two circuit analysis courses in their revised course curriculum to improve the student's fundamental knowledge. The main objectives of this book

- Easy and Clear Presentation of Each Article
- Interpretation of Basic Electrical Parameters in terms of Mathematical Equations
- Emphasis on Modern Engineering Techniques for Circuit Reduction
- Step-by-Step Problem Solving Procedures
- Inclusion of Worked Examples and Drill Problems
- Inclusion of Design-Oriented Problems
- Use of Pspice Software in Circuit Simulation
- A Large Number of Exercise Problems at the End of Each Chapter
- Answers of Drill and Exercise Problems

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Basic Concepts
• Basic Laws and Simple DC Circuits
• Methods of Analysis
• Circuit Theorems
• Basics of Capacitors and Inductors
• Basic Concepts of AC Circuits
• Concept of Phasors and AC Circuits
• Multiple Loop AC Circuits
• AC Circuits Analysis
• AC Power Analysis
• Poly Phase Circuits
• Fundamentals of Magnetic Circuits
• Frequency Response
• Two-port Networks
• Fundamentals of Pspice
• Basics of Transformer
• References
• Mathematical Relations
• Answers to Drill and Exercise Problems
• Index.

524 pages, Hardcover

Published January 30, 2007

About the author

Pakistani theoretical physicist Abdus Salam shared a Nobel Prize of 1979 for helping to develop the theory of the electroweak force, unifying the electromagnetic force and the weak force, two of the four fundamental forces of nature.

This astrophysicist, also the first Muslim to win for his work, belonged to Ahmadiyya community. After Salam gained the highest marks ever recorded for the matriculation examination at the University of the Punjab and then cycled home from Lahore at the age of 14 years in 1940, the whole town turned to welcome him. He won a scholarship to government college, University of the Punjab, and took his Magister Artium in 1946. In the same year, he was awarded a scholarship to Saint John's College, Cambridge, where he took a BA (honours) with a double first in mathematics and physics in 1949. In 1950, he received the Smith's Prize from Cambridge University for the most outstanding pre-doctoral contribution to physics. He also obtained a PhD in theoretical physics at Cambridge; his thesis, published in 1951, contained fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics which had already gained him an international reputation.

Salam returned to Pakistan in 1951 to teach mathematics at Government College, Lahore, and in 1952 became head of the mathematics department of the Punjab University. To pursue a career of research in theoretical physics, he with no alternative at that time left his own country and worked abroad. Many years later, he succeeded in finding a way to solve the heartbreaking dilemma that many young and gifted theoretical physicists from developing countries faced.
At the ICTP, Trieste, which he created, he instituted the famous "associateships" which allowed deserving young physicists to spend their vacations in an invigorating atmosphere in close touch with their peers in research and with the leaders in their own field.

In 1954, Salam left his country for a lectureship at Cambridge, and since then has visited Pakistan as adviser on science policy. His work for Pakistan has, however, been far-reaching and influential. He was a founding member of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, a member of the Scientific Commission of Pakistan and was Chief Scientific Adviser to the President from 1961 to 1974. Salam was also responsible for initiating research on water logging and salinity problems in Pakistan. He also played a critical role in agricultural research, PAEC and SUPARCO, the international space agency in Pakistan.
Since 1957 till his death, he was Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College, London, and since 1964 combined this position with that of Director of the ICTP, Trieste.

For more than forty years he had been a prolific researcher in theoretical elementary particle physics. He had either pioneered or been associated with all the important developments in this field, maintaining a constant and fertile flow of brilliant ideas. For the past thirty years he used his academic reputation to add weight to his active and influential participation in international scientific affairs. He served on a number of United Nations committees concerned with the advancement of science and technology in developing countries.

Abdus Salam is known to be a devout Muslim, whose religion, inseparable from his work and family life, occupied not a separate compartment of his life. He once wrote: "The Holy Quran enjoins us to reflect on the verities of Allah's created laws of nature; however, that our generation has been privileged to glimpse a part of His design is a bounty and a grace for which I render thanks with a humble heart."

After a long illness, Abdus Salam died in Oxford, England. People finally brought his body back to Pakistan, where thirteen thousand men and women visited to pay their last respects. Thirty thousand persons attended his funeral prayers.

Reference: biography by Miriam Lewis, now a

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