Residential Construction Academy:
Electrical Principles
2nd Edition, 2012
By Stephen L Herman
320 Pages, 8.5 x 11, softcover
Through the use of a lively writing style and frequent examples this book covers the important topics that students need to know to become residential electricians.
The author, Stephen L. Herman, logically presents the basic electrical principles from safety to motors and discusses how to go from theory to application. This text helps users learn the work skills, functions and activities included in the Residential Electrician Skill Standards developed by industry leaders for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). With its supplemental multimedia and instructor's resources this text provides an integrated teaching solution directly linking your education/training program to the residential construction industry.
CONTENTS
Section 1: Basic Electricity
Safety
Basic Electrical Theory
Electrical Quantities and Ohm's Law
Resistors
Series Circuits
Parallel Circuits
Combination Circuits
Measuring Instruments
Using Wire Tables and Determining
Conductor Sizes
Magnetic Induction
Section 2: Alternating Current
Alternating Current
Inductance in Alternating Current Circuits
Resistive-Inductive Series Circuits
Resistive-Inductive Parallel Circuits
Capacitors
Resistive-Capacitive Circuits
Resistive-Inductive-Capacitive Circuits
Single-Phase Transformers
Single-Phase Motors
Appendix A
Trigonometric Functions—Natural Sines
and Cosines
Appendix B
Trigonometric Functions—Natural Tangents
and Contangents
Appendix C
Formulas
Appendix D
Greek Alphabet
Appendix E
Scientific Notation
Appendix F
Answers to Practice Problems
Glossary
Index
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