Understanding Electricity

By Dr.Ilango Sivaraman

Most of us take the supply of electricity for granted - This booklet gives simple explanation of what is electricity and how it reaches your home. Concepts such as AC and DC current and a few simple electrical components and their functions explained. Mathematical expressions are totally avoided.
Drawings and illustrations are provided almost in every page to support the explanations and to make the book readable.
This book is recommended foe every one and to be kept at home for easy and casual reading to facilitate understanding of the flow of electricity to your house.
Students beginning their graduate courses in Physics and Engineering would also find this book very useful to understand the concepts and to have a strong understanding of Electrical concepts before taking up more advanced subjects on Electricity or Electrical Engineering.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr.Ilango Sivaraman
• Release date: Jul 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463017838

Dr.Ilango Sivaraman

The author is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from Madras University( Guindy Engineering College, Chennai, India).Then came, IIFT, MBA and Finally PhD in Management from Jain University, Bangalore.Work Experience - Starting with Greaves Cotton,Hyderabad Industries,Ashok Leyland, Best Crompton and Sundaram Clayton - Finally on my own with SEA Hydropower Pvt Ltd.,Hands on experience in managing/ manufacturing hydraulic cylinder/ Power packs and Pneumatic cylinders and control units at SEA Hydropower.Past few years teaching Engineering and Management subjects in Caledonian Engineering College at Muscat,Sultanate of Oman.Living in Muscat with wife, Sandhya.Introduction to Hydraulics and Pneumatics is a print version of my other book( Co authored) and published by PHI learning, India.

Book preview

Understanding Electricity

A Non-Engineers guide to understanding electricity

In home applications. -And for students to get their basics right.

Copyright ©author2018 All rights reserved

Dr.Ilango Sivaraman

Other Books by the same author

1. Pneumatics and Pneumatic circuits

2. Hydraulics and Hydraulic circuits.

3. HVAC Principles and Systems

Contents

1. Introducing the philosophy of electricity

1.1. What you can understand from this chapter:

1.2. What is Electricity

1.3. Flow of electrons

1.4. The takeaways from this chapter

2. The Personality of current flow

2.1. What you can understand from this chapter

2.2. What is Current and Voltage?

2.3. Current flows through a circuit

2.4. The takeaways from this chapter:

3. Direct and Alternating current

3.1. What you can understand from this chapter

3.2. DC Vs AC

3.3. Terminologies used in electrical circuits

3.4. The takeaways from this chapter:

4. The Highway that Electricity takes before it reaches your home

4.1. What we can understand from this chapter?

4.2. The function of Transformer

4.3. Why do we need a transformer?

4.4. Substation

4.5. A little more on Earthing/ Grounding.

4.6. The takeaways from this chapter

5. Single Phase and Three Phase supply to our houses

5.1. What you can Understand from this chapter

5.2. Colour Coding system in household wiring

5.3. Single phase connection to an Individual house

5.4. Connecting single phase to an energy meter

5.5. The takeaways from this chapter

6. Electrical Circuit Components - Resistors, Capacitors and Inductors

6.1. What you can understand from this chapter

6.2. Overview

6.3. Resistors & Resistivity

6.4. Capacitors

6.5. Inductor

6.6. The takeaways from this chapter

A Note before closing

Preface

Energy is delight. There is no other delight. The very vitality,the very energy of being,is delight,is bliss.- William Blake, English Poet.

Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded. Tim Allen

Consciousness give rise to thoughts as electricity gives rise to light -Dwaraknath Reddy

I am not a doctor, but, still I understand the importance of heartbeats, blood pressure and body temperature. I know what they are and what should be the respective and normal standards of these vital human factors.

The Doctor of medicine may understand about the energy flowing and causing the heart beats – but, every one of us may not understand or have the same level of understanding about the electrical energy that flows in to our households.

Eightu,

I remember my two year old baby crying for light to be switched on, the moment he wakes in the middle of the night. The light should be switched on.

There should be electricity flow in to the hidden wires that connect the bulb to the source of electricity at home. This book will explain in simple terms the fundamentals of the flow of electricity