This class-tested book gives you a familiarity with electricity and electronics as used in the modern world of measurement and control. Integral to the text are procedures performed to make safe and successful measurements of electrical quantities. It will give you a measurement vocabulary along with an understanding of digital and analog meters, bridges, power supplies, solid state circuitry, oscilloscopes, and analog to digital conversions. This book is about behavior, not design, and thus lends itself to an easy-to-understand format over absolute technical perfection. And where possible, applications are used to illustrate the topics being explained. The text uses a minimum of mathematics and where algebraic concepts are utilized there is sufficient explanation of the operation, so you may see the solution without actually performing the mathematical operations. This book is student centered. It has been developed from course materials successfully used by the author in both a college setting and when presented as short course study classes by ISA. These materials have been successful because of the insistence on practicality and solicitation of student suggestions for improvements. Basic Electricity and Electronics for Control will enhance student success in any industrial or technical school setting where basic technician training is to take place.

This time- and course-tested book is designed to familiarize readers with the concepts of electricity and electronics as they pertain to industrial measurement and control. And this new fourth edition is accompanied by a lab workbook containing exercises that are designed to approximate "real-life" applications found in vocational, industrial, and occupational areas. As a student-centered resource, this book emphasizes practical application. Where mathematics and algebraic concepts are covered, clear explanations are provided so readers can comprehend processes and solutions without having to perform any complex operations or mathematics. However, an understanding of basic math is required to fully absorb the material found in this book. Particular attention is given to ensuring safe and successful measurement of electrical quantities and a solid understanding of digital and analog meters, bridges, power supplies, solid state circuitry, oscilloscopes, and analog-to-digital convertors. Illustrations and exercises are utilized to better explain concepts and applications and to support the readers' understanding.