Electrics & Electronics

In this release of Electronics for Dummies the text part is supplemented with a huge number of colourful images and detailed diagrams; the publication will provide readers with the very easy-to-follow instructions that will show them how exactly various electronic components function, advice on proper choosing and using of the essential electronic tools, and even some nice projects that the readers can build themselves in less than half-an-hour.

The publication provides necessary information and technical guidance on the circuit basics, including the explanation of the voltage, current flow and power, critical components of the electrical circuit, namely inductors, capacitors, diodes, resistors, etc., versatile chips... The readers will get to know how to perform a correct analysis of the electrical circuit and understand all associated rules governing voltage and current, as well as their proper application.

The safety tips necessary to follow in order to keep yourself safe are also there in the book. In short, this publication is aimed to help interested people in their exploration of the very basics of electronics. You will see how various tiny parts manipulate the electric current, how the transistors switch and amplify it, and get so much more other useful and interesting information.

The Electrical Engineering Dictionary by Philip Laplante is the must-have book that provides the practicing electrical engineering professionals as well as the people only studying the electrical engineering disciplines, with so many workable definitions. It may and will for sure be a good research and reference source since it offers practical info for both industry researchers and scientists in other related disciplines.

The dictionary provides users with a remarkably comprehensive coverage of the important acronyms, terms and technical definitions related to the electrical engineering field, more than eleven thousand in total. There are several new areas that have been covered in this second release of the dictionary, compared to the first edition - process control and instrumentation and mechatronics, data storage, embedded sensors and systems, and others. There are so many new technical terms and abbreviations that have been included in this new edition of the dictionary to fully reflect the rapid growth in computer electronics and other relating engineering fields.

Believe it is absolutely needless to say that the present dictionary must be treated as the perfect reference for any person involved in electrical engineering activities, including technical design and construction of the electrical equipment/systems, their installation and operation, and any sort of maintenance and repair.

This book has been dedicated to the electrical devices that are commonly called sensors. The invention of the microprocessors that took place in the past, has resulted in the development of the very sophisticated instruments into the human life - nowadays, the microprocessors are considered the integral parts of the various computerized appliances used everywhere today.

In this volume the author covered many modern detectors and sensors; of course, it is not possible to embrace in the single volume the whole variety of electrical sensors together with their applications. The author did rather make the attempt to generate a good and useful reference text to be used by students and researchers being interested in modern instrumentation, application engineers, sensor engineers and technicians who must have a very thorough understanding of the sensors, know how to select them and design the sensors for practical electrical systems.

Numerous chapters of the book cover data acquisition, various technical characteristics of the sensors, sensing principles, optical components, interface circuits, motion and occupancy detectors, position/displacement/level, velocity and acceleration, pressure sensors, force/strain/tactile sensors, flow- and acoustic sensors, humidity/moisture sensors, temperature sensors, light detectors, chemical sensors and radiation detectors, materials the sensors are made of and technologies involved etc.

The present title was specificity prepared and released for the today's and future professionals  in the field of protective relaying as well as for any interested people possessing some minimal engineering skills. The publication has been written in a bit unconventional way - it uses the MERIT 2000, the MATLAB-based simulation tool, to offer readers the experience in understanding and subsequent implementing of various protective relaying designs.

There are many books dedicated to the protective relaying - most of them provide very good background on the principles of power relaying and faults occurring in power systems; however, almost all of them assume that the readers are mostly interested in learning how exactly the protective relaying approaches can be used in power systems. The authors of this book took a bit different approach assuming that readers are in learning how the protective relays work and understand their basic working principles.

Taking this goal in consideration, this book tries to turn the learning into the design experience with the readers using MATLAB from the very beginning. Note that we would not consider this book a substitute for any textbook on the fundamentals of protective relaying; this is more a complementary source of information.

This sixth edition of the famous textbook by Delmar has been mainly intended for students involved in electrical trade programs at community colleges, high schools and those engaged in industry training. It is assumed by the authors that the readers have had no prior deep knowledge of electricity; however, the book provides quite comprehensive coverage for use a reference tool even for experienced professionals.

The content of this publication itself is presented as a sort of blend of the theoretical knowledge and practical experience. It explains the various technical concepts related to electrical theory and also contains a number of case studies and practical examples of how to perform many of the common tasks that the industrial electricians must perform on the regular basis. The book also includes a very extensive art program which contains nice line drawings and full color high-quality images, and a huge number of practical exercises, all intended to serve to further clarification of the theoretical concepts.

This edition of the Textbook has been updated to the 2014 NEC. All materials provided in the book are explained really well and using an understandable language so it will be good for the beginners to electrical engineering as well as to students.​

This publication was written by Tingting Yang and Sherman Shen who made an attempt to cover the constantly emerging networks of maritime wideband communications. The authors are trying to describe to the readers how such networks facilitate the applications like general communications, urgency, maritime distress etc. This book was initially intended to provide a good insight to the scheduling of the maritime data transmission and to the protocol design for the network that has been mentioned above.

The book starts with some brief intro to the networks including their principal architecture, framework and operation principles, and it also includes a survey on current developments in this area. The next part of the book will present the resource allocation as well as the scheduling for the video transmission with the aim to maximize the weights of the video packets being uploaded and transferred. The duet of authors are also proposing an energy and content-aware scheduling scheme for better packet throughput.

Basing on the real vessel route traces received from the navigation programs, the results of the simulations are demonstrating the true viability of the schemes proposed. In addition, the conclusions and valuable suggestions for the future researches have been discussed in this book...

The control of the electrical power with the power electronic devices is becoming more and more important. There are so many new classes of electric motors developed that are being enabled by power electronics. The present handbook has been intended to provide readers with a good reference source that would be both concise and very useful for individuals, from students to real professionals in the field of electrical engineering.

The publication includes so wide range of various topics comprising the subject of power electronics, combining many regular, traditional, topics with some new and innovative technologies being at the edge of the latest technological advances. The emphasis has been made by the author of this book on the practical applications of all technologies discussed within the publication in order to enhance it's core value to the readers and make the understanding of the material a bit easier.

The presentations provided in the book are tutorial in their nature and there are also many examples on the practical use of the technologies described in the book, consisting of three parts - the first part provides a brief overview of the semiconductor devices, the second part explains the operating principles of circuits, while the last part describes the power electronics applications...

This world popular Handbook was prepared by internationally recognized and respected industry experts. It should be used as the complete reference book to be used by the ocean engineering professionals. The publication offers readers a truly comprehensive coverage of all most important areas of both theory and practice of oceanic as well as coastal engineering and associated technology.

The main body of the present publication has been perfectly organized for easy reference and contains of six major sections, covering marine hydrodynamics and control of marine vehicles, description of the various position control systems used on the offshore ships, some modeling considerations, various aspects of the computational intelligence, examples and description of the application of the fiber optics technology in oceanography and, finally, the technology for  current measurement. The book was specifically designed to be utilized as a traditional handbook in which readers would be able to find the answers to all their question related to the ocean engineering by consulting the corresponding article.

This handbook may also be used in many different ways since it offers snapshots of the current state-of-the-art in various relevant subjects. The text part of the book is supplemented with hundreds of data tables and figures providing additional useful info.