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| Basic Electricity | |
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| Safety | |
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| General Safety Rules | |
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| Effects of Electric Current on the Body | |
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| Protective Clothing | |
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| Ladders and Scaffolds | |
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| Fires | |
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| Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters | |
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| Grounding | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Basic Electrical Theory | |
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| Early History of Electricity | |
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| Atoms | |
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| The Law of Charges | |
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| Centrifugal Force | |
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| Electron Orbits | |
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| Valence Electrons | |
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| Electron Flow | |
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| Insulators | |
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| Methods of Producing Electricity | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Electrical Quantities and Ohm?s Law | |
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| The Coulomb | |
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| The Amp | |
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| The Electron Theory | |
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| The Conventional Current Theory | |
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| Speed of Current | |
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| Basic Electrical Circuits | |
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| The Volt | |
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| The Ohm | |
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| The Watt | |
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| Other Measures of Power | |
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| Ohm?s Law | |
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| Metric Units | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Resistors | |
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| Uses of Resistors | |
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| Fixed Resistors | |
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| Color Code | |
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| Standard Resistance Values of Fixed Resistors | |
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| Power Ratings | |
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| Variable Resistors | |
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| Schematic Symbols | |
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| Summary | |
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| Series Circuits | |
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| Series Circuits | |
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| Voltage Drops in a Series Circuit | |
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| Resistance in a Series Circuit | |
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| Calculating Series Circuit Values | |
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| Solving Circuits | |
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| Voltage Dividers | |
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| The General Voltage Divider Formula | |
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| Voltage Polarity | |
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| Using Ground as a Reference | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Parallel Circuits | |
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| Parallel Circuit Values | |
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| Parallel Resistance Formulas | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Combination Circuits | |
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| Combination Circuits | |
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| Solving Combination Circuits | |
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| Simplifying the Circuit | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Measuring Instruments | |
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| Analog Meters | |
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| The Voltmeter | |
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| Multirange Voltmeters | |
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| Reading a Meter | |
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| The Ammeter | |
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| Ammeter Shunts | |
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| AC Ammeters | |
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| Clamp-on Ammeters | |
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| DC-AC Clamp-on Ammeters | |
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| The Ohmmeter | |
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| Digital Meters | |
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| The Low-Impedance Voltage Tester | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Using Wire Tables and Determining Conductor Sizes | |
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| Using the National Electric Code Charts | |
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| Factors That Determine Ampacity | |
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| Correction Factors | |
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| Computing Conductor Sizes and Resistance | |
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| Computing Voltage Drop | |
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| Parallel Conductors | |
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| Testing Wire Installations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Alternating Current | |
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| Magnetic Induction | |
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| Magnetic Induction | |
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| Fleming?s Left-Hand Generator Rule | |
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| Moving Magnetic Fields | |
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| Determining the Amount of Induced Voltage | |
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| Lenz?s Law | |
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| Rise Time of Current in an Inductor | |
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| The Exponential Curve | |
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| Inductance | |
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| R-L Time Constants | |
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| Induced Voltage Spikes | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Alternating Current | |
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| Advantages of Alternating Current | |
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| AC Wave Forms | |
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| Sine Wave Values | |
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| Resistive Loads | |
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| Power in an AC Circuit | |
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| Skin Effects in AC Circuits | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Inductance in Alternating Current Schedules | |
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| Inductance | |
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| Inductive Reactance | |
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| Schematic Symbols | |
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| Inductors Connected in Series | |
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| Inductors Connected in Parallel | |
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| Voltage and Current Relationships in an Inductive Current | |
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| Power in an Inductive Circuit | |
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| Reactive Power | |
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| Q of an Inductor | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Resistance-Inductive Series Circuits | |
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| RL Series Circuits | |
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| Impedance | |
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| Vectors | |
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| Total Current | |
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| Voltage Drop across the Resistor | |
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| Watts | |
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| Computing Inductance | |
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| Voltage Drop across the Inductor | |
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| Total Voltage | |
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| Computing the Reactive Power | |
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| Computing the Apparent Power | |
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| Power Factor | |
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| Angle Theta | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Resistive-Inductive Parallel Circuits | |
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| Resistive-Inductive Parallel Circuits | |
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| Computing Circuit Values | |
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| Summary | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Capacitors | |
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| Capacitors | |
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| Electrostatic Charge | |
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| Dielectric Constants | |
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| Capacitor Ratings | |
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| Capacitors Connected in Parallel | |
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| Capacitors Connected in a Series | |
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| Capacitive Charge and Dis | |