______________ engineering is an wxciting and challenging profession for anyone who has a genuine interest in, and aptitude for, applied science and mathematics.

__________ engineering is the profession concerned with systems that produce, transmit, and measure electric signals.

__________ systems are electrical systems that generate, transmit, and distribute information.

___________ systems use electric signals to process information ranging from word processing to mathematical computations.

Control systems use electric signals to _________ processes.

Power systems generate and _________ electric power.

Signal-processing systems act on electric signals that represent ____________.

Considerable _____________ takes place amoung the engineering disciplines involved in designing and operating these five classes of systems.

An _________ circuit is a mathematical model that approximates the behavior of an actual electrical system.

Note that the term electric circuit is commonly used to refer to an actual electrical _________ as well as to the model that represents it.

Three basic assumptions ________ us to use circuit theory, rather than electromagnetic field theory, to study a physical system represented by an electric circuit.

Electrical effects happen instantaneously __________ a system.

The net charge on every component in the system is always _____.

There is no magnetic coupling between the components in a _________.

The wavelength l (lamda) is the velocity divided by the _________ rate, or frequency, of the signal; that is l=c/f.

The frequency f is measured in ________ (Hz).

Power systems in the united states operte at ____ Hz.

A commonlly used mathematical model for electrical systems is a ________ model.

The elements that comprise the circuit model are called _______ circuit components.

The physical ____________ is an actual electrical system, constructed from actual electrical components.

The concept of ________ charge is the basis for describing all electrical phenomena.

The charge is bipolar, meaning that electrical effects are described in terms of ________ and negative charges.

The electric __________ exists in discrete quantities, which are integral multiples of the elctronic charge, .

Electrical effects are attributed to both the ___________ of charge and charges in motion.

Voltage is the energy per unit ________ created by the separation.  We express this ratio in differential form as .

The rate of charge flow is known as the electric _________, which is expressed a .

The following picture shows an _______ basic circuit element.

We use the word _____ to imply that a basic circuit element does not exist as a realizable physical component.

We use the word basic to imply that the circuit element cannot be further ________ or subdivided into other elements.

The most widely used sign convention applied to these references is call the _______ sign convention.

Whenever the reference direction for the currnet in an element is in the direction of the reference voltage drop across the element, use a ___________ sign in any expression that relates the voltage to the current.  Otherwise use a negative sign.

Power is the time rate of expending or absorbing _________.

Mathematically, energy per unit time is expressed in the form of a ________, or .

Power associated with a basic circuit element is simply the product of the current in the element and the _________ across the element.

If the power is positive (that is, if p>0), power is being __________ to the circuit inside the box.

If the power is negative (that is, if p < 0), power is being __________ from the circuit inside the box.

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