Basic Concepts and Simple Switching Transients.

This chapter summarises the fundamental physical phenomena and the mathematical tools to tackle transient phenomena. Basic network theory and a thorough treatment of simple LR and RLC networks and the behaviour of the transient voltages and currents after a switching action are the main topic of this chapter. This is a necessary background because, when analysing transients, one always tries to reduce complex networks to series or parallel networks for a first-approximation [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]