Introductory Electrical Engineering With Math Explained in Accessible Language

Introduction

1 Knowledge is Everything

We live in a world where technology is advancing at an astonishing speed.

We have arrived at this point in knowledge, because man always had this curiosity about the things around.

At first, it was a matter of survival, but then curiosity turned into discovery, and we have started to unveil the secrets of the universe.

The human race produced geniuses like Isaac Newton, Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Alessandro Volta, Michael Faraday, Albert Einstein, Pierre‐Simon Laplace, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Richard Feynman, and so many others, who created the pillars of knowledge and contributed to the various branches of science, including physics and mathematics, and in fields that are pertinent to this book, such as electromagnetism and electricity.

In this book, we try to present knowledge in a simple and straightforward way and in an accessible language, using as many illustrations and examples as possible. Unlike other similar books, we provide the mathematical theory necessary to the reader, so every theme can be fully understood.

Many electrical engineering teachers complain that students arrive at their courses without the previous mathematical skills required to understand the theories. This book tries to fill this gap, by providing such mathematical skills every time they are necessary.

We invite the reader to this journey.