Engineering Circuit Analysis: International Student Version, Tenth Edition

Chapter 8. AC STEADY-STATE ANALYSIS

THE LEARNING GOALS FOR THIS CHAPTER ARE:

• Understand the basic characteristics of sinusoidal functions

• Be able to perform phasor and inverse phasor transformations and draw phasor diagrams

• Know how to calculate impedance and admittance for our basic circuit elements: R, L, C

• Be able to combine impedances and admittances in series and parallel

• Be able to draw the frequency-domain circuit for a given circuit with a sinusoidal source

• Know how to apply our circuit analysis techniques to frequency-domain circuits

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