This best-selling textbook, now in its eleventh edition, provides the clear and accessible introduction to electrical and electronic technology that all engineering students need. With a balanced coverage of electrical, electronic, and power engineering,Hughes Electrical and Electronic Technology is a must-have text for all university and college engineering students, including those not studying for an electrical or electronic degree. It is also appropriate as a reference for practitioners and technicians working in this, or any other engineering discipline. This edition has been significantly updated to include more on green topics like renewable energy and smart grid systems, and on technological advances such as particle accelerators. Key features include; chapter objectives and summaries plus worked examples and numerous practice problems.

Product Description: An indispensable resource for electrical technicians and trainees, Electrical Science for Technicians walks readers through the subject in a logical order, providing a historical overview alongside modern electrical theory and practice...read more

Product Description: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable...read more

Product Description: ALTERNATING CURRENT FUNDAMENTALS, 8E, an industrial standard for over thirty years, is the ideal book to provide readers with the most current information available on the essentials of alternating current. The topics in this book are arranged to build readers' knowledge, progressing from basic principles such as the differences between peak, rms, and average values to more complex coverage of circuits containing resistance, inductance, and capacitance...read more

Product Description: Electricians; AC/DC theory; Electrical Theory instructors; those involved in the field like Electricians.

Finally, an electricity text written for your students! Frank Petruzella's Electricity for the Trades is a practical text for students' first course in electricity. Having worked as both a tradesman and classroom instructor, author Frank Petruzella provides a uniquely practical, hands-on approach to learning electrical fundamentals, with a wealth of applications and procedures apprentices will be using in their work. This preliminary volume starts with coverage of key background topics, with an emphasis on safety and tools of the trade; and then moves into DC and AC circuit essentials. Inductance and capacitance are covered in an applied way,preparing students for subsubsequent work with motors and generators. The text contains a wealth of illustrations and worked examples related directly to trades-oriented work.