Applied Technologies & Professional Trades Resource Guide

Master the 2025-2026 National Electrical Code with Clarity, Confidence, and Compliance The NEC is essential--but it's also complex. Whether you're a licensed electrician, apprentice, contractor, inspector, or engineering student, The Simplified National Electrical Code Book 2025 - 2026 is your go-to reference for understanding and applying the most recent code updates, requirements, and best practices with ease. This plain-English guide breaks down critical NEC changes and technical rules, offering clear explanations, practical examples, and field-tested advice on how to comply with code in both residential and commercial installations. Inside this updated 2025-2026 edition, you'll learn how to: Navigate the latest NEC layout and interpret key articles with ease Understand changes to grounding, bonding, AFCI/GFCI protection, and service calculations Apply code rules for residential, commercial, and industrial wiring Properly size conductors, raceways, and overcurrent protection devices Ensure compliant installation of service panels, feeders, circuits, and receptacles Use simplified load calculations and ampacity adjustment techniques Understand hazardous locations, special occupancies, and emergency systems Avoid the most common code violations and inspection pitfalls Work with diagrams, code tables, and field-ready summaries for quick reference Packed with code tips, simplified formulas, and illustrations, this reference bridges the gap between theory and practical application. Whether you're studying for an exam, managing a project, or troubleshooting installations, this book gives you the confidence to work smarter and stay compliant.

A sweeping portrait of the EV transformation and what it means for all of us. The question is no longer if electric vehicles will happen, or even when they'll happen, but how. Veteran automotive reporter Mike Colias takes you inside the transformation in this thoroughly reported profile of the hard pivot in the car business, a $2 trillion industry undergoing the biggest change in its 120-year history--a change that is already sending ripples across the entire global economy. Colias documents the inevitable shift from pistons to electrons from every angle, taking you inside the boardrooms where executives battle over their EV strategies to take on Tesla and, more recently, emerging Chinese powerhouses such as BYD. He brings you to family-run car dealerships deciding if they'll sell EVs--or sell their businesses. He follows entrepreneurs along lonely stretches of road that will soon need charging stations. He talks to power-train engineers whose skills were once the beating heart of the automotive industry but who now find themselves being replaced by coders. This is an epic exploration that stretches from Detroit to Japan to Germany to China, and from factories in Normal, Illinois, and Haywood County, Tennessee, to a burgeoning mining operation along the shores of California's briny, lithium-rich Salton Sea. Inevitable is a deeply enjoyable and smart book that uses masterful storytelling to capture the expanse and dynamism of the transition to electric vehicles in profound detail, bringing to life its seismic effects on everything and everyone.

Covering the syllabus of B.Sc. Electronics, this excellent student companion is divided into twelve chapters, providing detailed explanations for all the areas of the course. Including descriptions of fundamental topics like circuit analysis (network analysis and network theorems) and semiconductors and semiconductor diodes, before diving into the more complex topics, such as the different Bipolar Junction configurations, Transistors h-parameters and CE, CB, CC and RC coupled amplifiers and feedback in amplifiers. This textbook also offers explanations to demodulation (AM, FM phase modulation, PAM, PWM, PPM and PCM) square law and linear diode detectors and the different aspects of noise.

The subject of power electronics is concerned with solid state devices for the control and conversion of electrical power. These silicon devices are designed mainly for switching the transfer current from one part of an electrical circuit to another. Power electronics has a wide range of applications from the small systems used in electrical appliances to very large systems for the supply and distribution of electricity. Although it can be difficult to completely define where the boundary lies between electronics and power electronics, this resource succeeds at breaking down the discipline. Containing the useful concepts and building blocks that go into making a power converter operate successfully, this book provides a description of the characteristics of different types of power semiconductor devices and their application to power converter circuits. Applications to power transmission, electric drives, and medical equipment are included to illustrate the wide range of power electronics in both small and high power circuits.

Master the 2025-2026 National Electrical Code with Clarity, Confidence, and Compliance The NEC is essential--but it's also complex. Whether you're a licensed electrician, apprentice, contractor, inspector, or engineering student, The Simplified National Electrical Code Book 2025 - 2026 is your go-to reference for understanding and applying the most recent code updates, requirements, and best practices with ease. This plain-English guide breaks down critical NEC changes and technical rules, offering clear explanations, practical examples, and field-tested advice on how to comply with code in both residential and commercial installations. Inside this updated 2025-2026 edition, you'll learn how to: Navigate the latest NEC layout and interpret key articles with ease Understand changes to grounding, bonding, AFCI/GFCI protection, and service calculations Apply code rules for residential, commercial, and industrial wiring Properly size conductors, raceways, and overcurrent protection devices Ensure compliant installation of service panels, feeders, circuits, and receptacles Use simplified load calculations and ampacity adjustment techniques Understand hazardous locations, special occupancies, and emergency systems Avoid the most common code violations and inspection pitfalls Work with diagrams, code tables, and field-ready summaries for quick reference Packed with code tips, simplified formulas, and illustrations, this reference bridges the gap between theory and practical application. Whether you're studying for an exam, managing a project, or troubleshooting installations, this book gives you the confidence to work smarter and stay compliant.