Fundamentals of Electric Circuits: 2026 Release ISE

Dr. Charles K. Alexander is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. He is also the Director of the Center for Research in Electronics and Aerospace Technology (CREATE). From 2002 until 2006 he was Dean of the Fenn College of Engineering. He has held the position of Dean of Engineering at Cleveland State University, California State University, Northridge, and Temple University (acting Dean for six years). He has held the position of Department Chair at Temple University and Tennessee Technological University as well as the position of Stocker Visiting Professor (an Endowed Chair) at Ohio University. He has held faculty status at all of the aforementioned Universities. Matthew N. O. Sadiku received his PhD from Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville. From 1984 to 1988, he was Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University, where he did graduate work in Computer Science. From 1988 to 2000, he was at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he became a full Professor. From 2000 to 2002, he was with Lucent/Avaya, Holmdel, New Jersey, as a System Engineer and with Boeing Satellite Systems as a Senior Scientist. He is currently a professor at Prairie View A&M University.

• Part One DC Circuits1. Basic Concepts2. Basic Laws3. Methods of Analysis4. Circuit Theorems5. Operational Amplifiers6. Capacitors and Inductors7. First-Order Circuits8. Second-Order CircuitsPart Two AC Circuits9. Sinusoids and Phasors10. Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis11. AC Power Analysis12. Three-Phase Circuits13. Magnetically Coupled Circuits14. Frequency ResponsePart Three Advanced Circuit Analysis15. Introduction to the Laplace Transform16. Applications of the Laplace Transform17. The Fourier Series18. Fourier TransformAppendixA) Simultaneous Equations and Matrix InversionB) Complex NumbersC) Mathematical FormulasD) Answers to Odd-Numbers Problems