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title: Circuit Analysis
description: Circuit analysis covers the fundamental techniques used to determine voltages and currents in electrical networks. Learners will master Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, nodal analysis, and network theorems for both DC and AC circuits.
category: engineering
subcategory: electrical-and-computer-engineering
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
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# Circuit Analysis

Circuit analysis covers the fundamental techniques used to determine voltages and currents in electrical networks. Learners will master Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, nodal analysis, and network theorems for both DC and AC circuits.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 3 Courses • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Khan Academy Electrical Engineering

Interactive free lessons on circuits, ideal for beginners; mentioned in practitioner threads

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.khanacademy.org/science/electrical-engineering

**Tags:** circuit-analysis, electrical-engineering, ohms-law, dc-circuits, free-courses

### 2. All About Circuits

Free online textbook with volumes on DC/AC analysis, worksheets, and simulators; frequent top rec in r/EngineeringStudents

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/

**Tags:** circuit-analysis, electronics, dc-circuits, ac-circuits, textbook

### 3. falstad.com/circuit

An interactive browser-based circuit simulator for learning electronics, letting you build and simulate circuits in real time. It offers numerous example circuits, a wide range of components, and visualization tools (voltage/current graphs, scopes) to explore circuit behavior and learn circuit analysis.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://falstad.com/circuit

**Tags:** websites, engineering-manufacturing, electrical-engineering

## Courses

### 1. Circuits and Electronics (MIT 6.002)

**Author:** Anant Agarwal

The lumped circuit abstraction: resistive networks, dependent and independent sources, MOS transistors, the digital abstraction, amplifiers, energy storage elements, and first- and second-order dynamics in time and frequency domains. Includes 26 lecture videos, notes, problem sets and exams for analyzing and designing circuits.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-002-circuits-and-electronics-spring-2007/

**Tags:** circuit-analysis, analog-electronics, mosfet-amplifiers, digital-abstraction, transient-response

### 2. Circuit Analysis

Georgia Tech's first circuits course: Ohm's and Kirchhoff's laws, node and mesh analysis, Thevenin and Norton equivalents, op-amps, capacitors and inductors, and RC/RL transient response. Includes lab demonstrations on physical circuits alongside the analytical problem sets.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/linear-circuits-dcanalysis

**Tags:** courses, engineering-manufacturing, electrical-engineering

### 3. Introduction to Electronics

This course introduces students to the basic components of electronics: diodes, transistors, and op amps.  It covers the basic operation and some common applications.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/electronics

**Tags:** courses, engineering-manufacturing, electronics-electrical

## Books

### 1. Electric Circuits

**Author:** James W. Nilsson, Susan A. Riedel

Standard undergraduate textbook covering resistive circuits, node and mesh analysis, operational amplifiers, transient response, sinusoidal steady state, and Laplace-domain methods. Worked examples and problem sets build the analysis routine expected in a first circuits course sequence.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0132448394?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, engineering-manufacturing, electrical-engineering

### 2. Engineering Circuit Analysis

**Author:** William H. Hayt Jr., Jack E. Kemmerly

McGraw-Hill's long-running circuits text, working from DC resistive networks through transient analysis, sinusoidal steady state, Laplace transforms, and two-port networks. Heavy on end-of-chapter problems, including SPICE exercises, for drilling systematic analysis technique.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/007027410X?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, engineering-manufacturing, electrical-engineering

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