Fundamentals of Electric Theory and Circuits

Contents: 1. Surface Charges and Conduction Processes. 2. Capacitors in Circuits. 3. The Principle of Superposition in Circuit Processes. 4. Electrical Energy. 5.  Faraday's Law and Transmission Line Fundamentals. 6. Magnetic Forces. 7. Motional emf and Generators. 8. Magnetic Moments, Motors and Loads. 9. PN Junctions, Diodes and Ohmic Contacts. 10. Wave Propagation, Antennas and Waveguides. Appendices. Index.  

The book by Sridhar Chitta, where electrostatics and electric circuits are treated in a unified way on the basis of surface charges, is one of the rare exceptions in textbooks today. The primary objective of this book is obviously to encourage students to think deeply by themselves and not just to learn and to apply mathematical equations. If students, for instance, just learn about the term potential as "energy per charge" they have not understood much. On the contrary, the majority of students learn such mathematical expressions and unconsciously they feel that they have not understood. As a consequence they might lose interest in further learning. The content offered in Chitta´s book can only be "digested" with persistence, activation of spatial imagery and concentrated thinking. For students, properly guided and motivated by faculty or mentors, to easily transcend the limits of merely knowing the circuit and field expressions Ohm´s law, Kirchhoff´s rules, and Coulomb´s law etc., Chitta´s book offers the 
perfect content to deeply understand what they want to and should learn. It explains the nature of electricity in a much deeper manner than almost all the other textbooks. It shows the electrostatic aspect of electric circuits, the behavior of capacitors, the effect of pulses on such elements and many other aspects. Students who have worked through these chapters will leave with an increased self-confidence and the impression that complexity has been reduced, which means something important has been understood."