Unlike books currently on the market, this book attempts to satisfy two goals: combine circuits and electronics into a single, unified treatment, and establish a strong connection with the contemporary world of digital systems. It will introduce a new way of looking not only at the treatment of circuits, but also at the treatment of introductory coursework in engineering in general. Using the concept of ''abstraction,'' the book attempts to form a bridge between the world of physics and the world of large computer systems. In particular, it attempts to unify electrical engineering and computer science as the art of creating and exploiting successive abstractions to manage the complexity of building useful electrical systems. Computer systems are simply one type of electrical systems.

Charter 1 The Circuit Abstraction Charter 2 Resistive Networks Charter 3 Networks Theorems Charter 4 Analisis of Nonlinear Circuits Charter 5 The Digital Abstraction Charter 6 The MOSFET Switch Charter 7 The MOSFET Amplifier Charter 8 The small-Signal Model Charter 9 Energy Storage Elements Charter 10 First-Order Transients in Linear Electrical Charter 11 Energy and Power in Digital Circuits Charter 12 Transients in Second-Order Circuits Charter 13 Sinusoidal Steady State; Impedance and Frequency Response Charter 14 Sinusoidal Steady State; Resonance Charter 15 The Operational Amplifier Abstraction Charter 16 Diodes