AC Electrical Circuit Analysis

This study guide is designed for both instructors and students enrolled in AC electrical circuit analysis courses. The textbook includes problems with detailed solutions to help students understand the subjects in depth. It features partially solved exercises that encourage practice while guiding students through the problem-solving process and providing hints for the required formulas. Additionally, it offers exercises with final answers to motivate students to practice independently, while also aiding instructors in creating tests or quizzes. The material covered in the book includes fundamental concepts and laws of electrical circuit analysis in sinusoidal steady state. It addresses sinusoidal steady-state analysis using various methods and examination of circuits driven by multiple frequencies. Topics also include root mean square (RMS) values, applications of electrical circuit theorems in sinusoidal steady state, as well as discussions on average power, reactive power, apparent power, and complex power for resistors, capacitors, inductors, and impedances. Further content examines the power factor for different types of impedances, resonance, frequency response, bandwidth, and quality factors of electrical circuits, along with sinusoidal steady-state analysis of circuits that include magnetically coupled inductors and transformers.

Dr. Mehdi Rahmani-Andebili is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alabama. He received his first M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tarbiat Modares University and Clemson University in 2011 and 2016, respectively, and his second Ph.D. (2nd M.Sc.) degree in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2019. Moreover, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sharif University of Technology during 2016-2017. As a professor, he has taught a wide selection of courses and labs including Power System Analysis, Electric Machines, Feedback Control Systems Analysis and Design, Signals and Systems, Electromagnetics, Electronics, Digital Logic, Industrial Electronics, Renewable Distributed Generation and Storage, AC Electrical Circuits Analysis, DC Electrical Circuits Analysis, Electrical Circuits and Devices, Fundamental of Electrical Engineering, Essentials of Electrical Engineering Technology, and Algebra and Calculus-Based Physics. Dr. Rahmani-Andebili has over 300 single-author or first-author publications including journal papers, conference papers, textbooks, books, and book chapters that are about the fields of Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Programming. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a permanent reviewer of many reputable journals. His research areas include Smart Grid, Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Planning and Operation of Power Systems, Integration of Renewables and Energy Storages into Power Systems, Energy Scheduling and Demand-Side Management, Electric Vehicles and Distributed Generation, and Advanced Optimization Techniques in Power System Studies.