<p><b>POWER ELECTRONICS A FIRST COURSE</b></p><p><b>Enables students to understand power electronics systems, as one course, in an integrated electric energy systems curriculum</b></p><p><i>Power Electronics A First Course</i> provides instruction on fundamental concepts related to power electronics to undergraduate electrical engineering students, beginning with an introductory chapter and moving on to discussing topics such as switching power-poles, switch-mode dc-dc converters, and feedback controllers.</p><p>The authors also cover diode rectifiers, power-factor-correction (PFC) circuits, and switch-mode dc power supplies. Later chapters touch on soft-switching in dc-dc power converters, voltage and current requirements imposed by various power applications, dc and low-frequency sinusoidal ac voltages, thyristor converters, and the utility applications of harnessing energy from renewable sources.</p><p><i>Power Electronics A First Course</i> is the only textbook that is integrated w