PREFACE
This book has been written to provide a thorough and complete discussion of virtually all aspects of inductance: both “loop” and “partial.” There is considerable misunderstanding and misapplication of the important concepts of inductance. Undergraduate electrical engineering curricula generally discuss “loop” inductance only very briefly and only in one undergraduate course at the beginning of the junior year in a four-year curriculum. However, that curriculum is replete with the analysis of electric circuits containing the inductance symbol. In all those electric circuit analysis courses, the values of the inductors are given and are not derived from physical principles. Yet in the world of industry, the analyst must somehow obtain these values as well as construct inductors having the chosen values of inductance used in the circuit analysis. This book addresses that missing link: calculation of the values of the various physical constructions of inductors, both intentional and unintentional, from basic electromagnetic principles and laws.
In addition, today’s high-speed digital systems as well as high-frequency analog systems are using increasingly higher spectral content signals. Numerous “unintended” inductances such as those of the interconnection leads are becoming increasingly important in determining whether these high-speed, high-frequency systems will function properly. This is generally classified as the “signal integrity” of those systems and is an increasingly ...
