Basic Electricity

2018 Reprint of 1969 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition.  Not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  This expanded and revised U.S. Navy training course text provides thorough coverage of the basic theory of electricity and its applications.  It is possibly the best book of its kind for either a broad study of electrical fundamentals.  It is divided into 21 chapters with an extensive section of appendixes.  Chapters cover safety, fundamental concepts of electricity, batteries, series direct-current circuits, network analysis of direct-current circuits, electrical conductors and wiring techniques, electromagnetism and magnetic circuits, introduction to alternating-current electricity, inductance, inductive and capacitive reactance, fundamental alternating-current circuit theory, direct-current generators, direct current motor magnetic amplifiers, and servomechanisms.  Appendixes familiarize readers with common terms, abbreviations, component color-code, full load currents of motors, and cable types; they also supply trig functions, square and square roots, basic formulas, and laws of exponents.  The reader is supplied with a complete basic coverage of all important aspects of electricity.  The book also provides hundreds of illustrations and photos to help explain the material. This is an excellent text for classroom use or for home study.  Basic Electricity serves the lay reader who simply wants a knowledge of fundamental concepts of electricity or wishes to study more advanced concepts and applications. 1969 edition.