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Fifth Edition, last update January 4, 2003

Lessons In Electric Circuits, Volume I { DC

By Tony R. Kuphaldt

Fifth Edition, last update January 4, 2003

° 1998-2003, Tony R. Kuphaldt

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PRINTING HISTORY

² First Edition: Printed in June of 2000. Plain-ASCII illustrations for universal computer

readability.

² Second Edition: Printed in September of 2000. Illustrations reworked in standard graphic

(eps and jpeg) format. Source ¯les translated to Texinfo format for easy online and printed

publication.

² ThirdEdition: Equationsandtablesreworkedasgraphicimagesratherthanplain-ASCIItext.

² Fourth Edition: Printed in August 2001. Source ¯les translated to SubML format. SubML is

a simple markup language designed to easily convert to other markups like L A T E X, HTML, or

DocBook using nothing but search-and-replace substitutions.

² Fifth Edition: Printed in August 2002. New sections added, and error corrections made, since

the fourth edition.