John Bird, BSc (Hons), CEng, CMath, CSci, FIMA, FIET, FCollT, is the former Head of Applied Electronics in the Faculty of Technology at Highbury College, Portsmouth, UK. More recently, he has combined freelance lecturing at the University of Portsmouth, with Examiner responsibilities for Advanced Mathematics with City & Guilds and examining for the International Baccalaureate Organisation. He has over 45 years’ experience of successfully teaching, lecturing, instructing, training, educating, and planning of trainee engineers study programmes. He is the author of 146 textbooks on engineering, science, and mathematical subjects, with worldwide sales of over one million copies. He is a chartered engineer, a chartered mathematician, a chartered scientist, and a Fellow of three professional institutions. He has recently retired from lecturing at the Royal Navy’s Defence College of Marine Engineering in the Defence College of Technical Training at H.M.S. Sultan, Gosport, Hampshire, UK, one of the largest engineering training establishments in Europe.

• Section 1 Revision of Some Basic Mathematics  1. Some Mathematics Revision  2. Further Mathematics Revision  Section 2 Basic Electrical and Electronic Engineering Principles  3. Units associated with basic electrical quantities  4. An introduction to electric circuits  5. Resistance variation  6. Batteries and alternative sources of energy  7. Series and parallel networks  8. Capacitors and capacitance  9. Magnetic circuits  10. Electromagnetism  11. Electromagnetic induction  12. Electrical measuring instruments and measurements  13. Semiconductor diodes  14. Transistors  Section 3 Further Electrical and Electronic Principles  15. D.c. circuit theory  16. Alternating voltages and currents  17. Single-phase series a.c. circuits  18. Single-phase parallel a.c. circuits  19. Filter networks  20. D.c. transients  21. Operational amplifiers  Section 4 Further Electrical Power Technology  22. Global climate change and the future of electricity generation  23. Three-phase systems  24. Transformers  25. D.c. machines  26. Three-phase induction motors  Answers to Practice Exercises