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This chapter is primarily concerned with the transient, variable currents which occur whenever a steady emf is suddenly applied to or removed from a circuit which, in addition to resistors, also contains capacitors and/or inductors. However, before discussing these transient effects, it is thought useful to analyse the effect of combinations of capacitors and of inductors as for resistors in the previous chapter. (A good reference for simple differential equations is C. W. Evans, Engineering Mathematics, Chapman and Hall, London, 1989.)
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© 1991 A.J. Pointon and H.M. Howarth
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Pointon, A.J., Howarth, H.M. (1991). Capacitors, inductors and transients. In: AC and DC Network Theory. Physics and its Applications. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3142-1_3
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