Overview
Through the use of a lively writing style and frequent examples, RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY: ELECTRICAL PRINCIPLES, 2E covers the important topics that readers need to know to become residential electricians. The author, Stephen L. Herman, logically presents the basic electrical principles from safety to motors and discusses how to go from theory to application. This text helps users learn the work skills, functions and activities included in the Residential Electrician Skill Standards developed by industry leaders for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). With its supplemental multimedia this text provides an integrated teaching solution directly linking your education/training program to the residential construction industry.
Full Product Details
Author: Stephen Herman (Lee College (deceased))
Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc
Imprint: Delmar Cengage Learning
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Width: 21.50cm
, Height: 27.40cm
, Length: 2.20cm
Weight: 1.088kg
ISBN: 9781111306472
ISBN 10: 1111306478
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 04 March 2011
Audience:
Adult education
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
SECTION I: Basic Electricity. 1. Safety. 2. Basic Electrical Theory. 3. Electrical Quantities and Ohm's Law. 4. Resistor. 5. Series Circuits. 6. Parallel Circuits. 7. Combination Circuits. 8. Measuring Instruments. 9. Using Wire Tables and Determining Conductor Sizes. 10. Magnetic Induction. SECTION II: Alternating Current. 11. Alternating Current. 12. Inductance in Alternating Current Circuits. 13. Resistive-Inductive Series Circuits. 14. Resistive-Inductive Parallel Circuits. 15. Capacitors. 16. Single-Phase Transformers. 17. Single-Phase Motors.
Author Information
Stephen L. Herman is a retired electrician and teacher with more than 30 years of experience to his credit. A seasoned author, his reader-friendly textbooks on electricity and mathematics are popular with students and instructors alike. For two decades Mr. Herman was lead instructor for the Electrical Technology Curriculum at Lee College in Baytown, Texas, where he received an Excellence in Education Award from the Halliburton Education Foundation. He also taught at Randolph Community College in Asheboro, N.C., for nine years and helped establish an electrical curriculum for Northeast Texas Community College in Mount Pleasant, Texas. His additional publications include ELECTRIC MOTOR CONTROL, ELECTRICITY AND CONTROLS FOR HVAC/R, INDUSTRIAL MOTOR CONTROLS, UNDERSTANDING MOTOR CONTROLS, ELECTRICAL WIRING INDUSTRIAL, ALTERNATING CURRENT FUNDAMENTALS, DIRECT CURRENT FUNDAMENTALS, ELECTRICAL STUDIES FOR TRADES, ELECTRICAL PRINCIPLES, ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMERS AND ROTATING MACHINES, EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTRICITY FOR USE WITH LAB VOLT EQUIPMENT, THE COMPLETE LABORATORY MANUAL FOR ELECTRICITY, and PRACTICAL PROBLEMS IN MATHEMATICS FOR ELECTRICIANS.
