Basic Electrical Engineering for Beginners
How AC and DC Circuits, Components and Batteries Work Step by StepBy Andreas Lindqvist
Length9h 6m
About this audiobook
A beginner-friendly guide to AC and DC circuits, components, and batteries, with step-by-step explanations, schematics, worked calculations, and quizzes.
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GenreTechnology
Length9 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 27, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Foreword
2Preface
3About This Book
4Important Safety Notice
5Chapter 1: Charge, Current and Voltage
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61.1 What Electricity Is Made Of
71.2 Current Is Charge on the Move
81.3 Voltage Is Energy per Charge
91.4 SI Units and Prefixes You Will Actually Use
101.5 Measuring Current and Voltage Safely
111.6 Static Charge, Conductors and Insulators
12Chapter 2: Resistance and Ohm’s Law
132.1 What Resistance Does in a Circuit
142.2 Ohm’s Law and Its Three Forms
152.3 Reading Resistor Color Codes and Tolerance
162.4 Power Rating and Choosing a Resistor
172.5 Resistors in Practice: Types and Markings
18Chapter 3: Series and Parallel Circuits
193.1 Series Circuits and Equivalent Resistance
203.2 Parallel Circuits and Equivalent Resistance
213.3 Voltage Dividers
223.4 Current Dividers and Ladder Networks
233.5 Cells in Series and Parallel
24Chapter 4: Simple Circuit Analysis
254.1 Kirchhoff’s Current Law
264.2 Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law
274.3 Mesh Analysis with Two Loops
284.4 Node Voltages and a First Thevenin Equivalent
294.5 Norton Equivalents and Source Conversion
30Chapter 5: Power, Energy and Efficiency
315.1 Electrical Power in Watts
325.2 Energy, Kilowatt-Hours and Running Costs
335.3 Heat in Components and Heatsinking
345.4 Efficiency and Losses
355.5 Maximum Power Transfer and Matching
36Chapter 6: Capacitors
376.1 Charge Storage and Capacitance
386.2 Energy in a Capacitor and Working Voltage
396.3 Charging and Discharging Curves
406.4 Capacitor Types and Markings
41Chapter 7: Inductors, Magnetism and Transformers
427.1 Magnets, Flux and Flux Density
437.2 Inductance and Induced Voltage
447.3 Mutual Inductance and Transformer Action
457.4 Cores, Losses and Real Transformers
46Chapter 8: Alternating Current Basics
478.1 What Alternating Current Means
488.2 Frequency, Period and Phase
498.3 Peak, Average and Root-Mean-Square Values
508.4 Waveforms and Harmonics in Plain Terms
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