Electrical Engineering: Principles & Applications, 7th edition

For courses in Electrical Engineering.

Accessible and applicable learning in electrical engineering for introductory and non-major courses

The #1 title in its market, Electrical Engineering: Principles and Applications helps students learn electrical-engineering fundamentals with minimal frustration. Its goals are to present basic concepts in a general setting, to show students how the principles of electrical engineering apply to specific problems in their own fields, and to enhance the overall learning process. This book covers circuit analysis, digital systems, electronics, and electromechanics at a level appropriate for either electrical-engineering students in an introductory course or non-majors in a survey course.  A wide variety of pedagogical features stimulate student interest and engender awareness of the material’s relevance to their chosen profession. The only essential prerequisites are basic physics and single-variable calculus. The 7th Edition features technology and content updates throughout the text.

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• Stimulate interest, eliminate frustration, and bring relevance of the content to students.    
• Statements of learning objectives and summaries of important points open and close each chapter.
• Comments in the margins emphasize and summarize important points or indicate common pitfalls that students need to avoid.
• Short boxed articles demonstrate how electrical engineering principles are applied in other fields of engineering
• Step-by-step problem solving procedures.
• Key equations are highlighted in the book to draw attention to important results.
• EXPANDED! The popular Practice Tests at the end of each chapter have been expanded. Answers for the Practice Tests appear in Appendix D and complete solutions are available online in the Student Solutions Manual
• An open access website is available at www.pearsonhighered.com/engineering-resources which contains:
• A Student Solutions Manual with PDF files for each chapter that include full solutions for the in-chapter exercises, answers for the end-of-chapter problems that are marked with asterisks, and full solutions for the Practice Tests.
• A MATLAB folder that contains the m-files discussed in the book.
• A Multisim folder that contains tutorials on the basic features of Multisim and circuit simulations for a wide variety of circuits from the book.

Also available with Mastering Engineering

Mastering^™ Engineering is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Interactive, self-paced tutorials provide individualized coaching to help students stay on track. With a wide range of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts. The text and Mastering Engineering work together to guide students through engineering concepts with a multi-step approach to problems.

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• Adaptive Follow-Up Assignments are based on each student's past performance on his/her course work to date, including homework, tests, and quizzes. These provide additional coaching and targeted practice as needed, so students can master the material.
• The popular Practice Tests at the end of each chapter have been expanded. Answers for the Practice Tests appear in Appendix D and complete solutions are available online in the Student Solutions Manual
• Many end-of-chapter problems (approximately half) have been replaced or modified.
• New examples have been added in Chapters 1 through 7.
• Coverage of MATLAB and the Symbolic Toolbox for network analysis in Chapters 2 through 6.
• Coverage of computers, microcontrollers and computer-based instrumentation has been merged from two chapters into Chapter 8.
• Appendix C has been modified to keep up with new developments in the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam.

Also available with Mastering Engineering

Mastering™ Engineering is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Interactive, self-paced tutorials provide individualized coaching to help students stay on track. With a wide range of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts. The text and Mastering Engineering work together to guide students through engineering concepts with a multi-step approach to problems.

• Adaptive Follow-Up Assignments are based on each student's past performance on his/her course work to date, including homework, tests, and quizzes. These provide additional coaching and targeted practice as needed, so students can master the material.
• Learning Catalytics^™ generates class discussion, customizes your lecture, and promotes peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. As a student response tool, Learning Catalytics uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking.
• NEW! Upload a full PowerPoint^® deck for easy creation of slide questions.
• NEW! Team names are no longer case sensitive.
• Help your students develop critical thinking skills.
• Monitor responses to find out where your students are struggling.
• Rely on real-time data to adjust your teaching strategy.
• Automatically group students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer learning.