Engineering Circuit Analysis: International Student Version, Tenth Edition

Chapter 2. RESISTIVE CIRCUITS

THE LEARNING GOALS FOR THIS CHAPTER ARE:

• Be able to use Ohm's law to solve electric circuits

• Be able to apply Kirchhoff's current law and Kirchhoffs voltage law to solve electric circuits

• Know how to analyze single-loop and single-node-pair circuits

• Know how to combine resistors in series and parallel

• Be able to use voltage and current division to solve simple electric circuits

• Understand when and how to apply wye-delta transformations in the analysis of electric circuits

• Know how to analyze electric circuits containing dependent sources

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