Transients for Electrical Engineers

Paul Nahin was born in California, and did all of his schooling there (Brea-Olinda High 1958, Stanford BS 1962, Caltech MS 1963 and - as a Howard Hughes Staff Doctoral Fellow - UC/Irvine PhD 1972, with all degrees in electrical engineering). He has taught at Harvey Mudd College, the Naval Postgraduate School and the Universities of New Hampshire (where he is now emeritus professor of electrical engineering) and Virginia.Prof. Nahin has published a couple of dozen short science fiction stories in ANALOG, OMNI and TWILIGHT ZONE magazines, and has written 19 books on mathematics and physics for scientifically-minded and popular audiences alike. He has given invited talks on mathematics at Bowdoin College, the Claremont Graduate School, the University of Tennessee and Caltech, has appeared on National Public Radio's "Science Friday" show (discussing time travel) as well as on New Hampshire Public Radio's "The Front Porch" show (discussing imaginary numbers) and advised Boston's WGBH Public Television's "Nova" program on the script for their time travel episode. He gave the invited Sampson Lectures for 2011 in Mathematics at Bates College (Lewiston, Maine).Also By Paul J. NahinOliver Heaviside, Time Machines, The Science of Radio, An Imaginary Tale, Duelling Idiots, When Least Is Best, Dr. Euler’s Fabulous Formula, Chases and Escapes, Digital Dice, Mrs. Perkins’s Electric Quilt, Time Travel, Number-Crunching, The Logician and the Engineer, Will You Be Alive Ten Years From Now?, Holy Sci-Fi!, Inside Interesting Integrals, In Praise of Simple Physics, Time Machine Tales, and Mathematical Physics

• Foreword.- Preface.- Acknowledgments.-About the Author.- 1 Basic Circuit Concepts.- 2 Transients in the Time Domain.- 3 The Laplace Transform.- 4 Transients in the Transform Domain.- 5 Transmission Lines.- 6 Transients in Transmission Lines.- Appendix 1: Euler’s identity.- Appendix 2: Heaviside’s Distortionless Transmission Line Condition.- Appendix 3 How to Solve for the Step Response of the Atlantic Cable Diffusion Equation Without the Laplace Transform.- Appendix 4 A Short Table of Laplace Transforms and Theorems.- Index.