Electrical Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam
5th Edition, by Raymond B. Yarbrough--A Summary
Introduction. This manual is a review of topics in electrical engineering, meant to be reviewed--rather formally, possibly in a class-room setting--by persons working in the field 5 to 7 years or more after passing their Fundamentals of Engineering or Engineer-in-Training (EIT) exam. This review of problems is intended to prepare the "student" (a working engineer, likely rusty in applications of various theoretical aspects) for an 8-hour, open-book Professional Engineer's (PE) exam, qualifying him or her for a (single) state license in Electrical Engineering.
The manual contains seventeen chapters, 5 of which cover important review topics, such as mathematics and systems of units, that are not specifically covered on PE exams but which subsume a number of problems that are covered. All chapters include: mathematics; linear circuit analysis; waveforms, power, and measurements; time and frequency response; power systems; transmission lines; rotating machines; fundamental semiconductor circuits; amplifier applications; waveshaping, logic, and data conversion; digital logic; control systems; illumination and the National Electric Code; economic analyses; systems of units; management theories; and engineering licensing. Page-only citations herein are clearly to this manual (Yarbrough, 1997).
One review class teacher has suggested that a review class based on this book (and a companion Solutions Manual for end-of-chapter problems) should take 14 weeks (Yarbrough, 1997, p. x).
Each chapter of the manual is next summarized, forced to a stand-alone single-page-per-Chapter format.
1. Mathematics The book opens at the root of all quantitative disciplines--"Real Numbers" (p.1-1). If that seems too simplistic, it is not; because the electrical properties of (alternating) current and voltage (transients) that are sinusoid...