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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ashby, Darren.
Electrical engineering 101: everything you should have learned in school… but probably didn’t/Darren Ashby.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-85617-506-7 (alk. paper)
1. Electric engineering. I. Title.
TK146.A75 2009
621.3—dc22
2008045182
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ISBN-13: 978-1-85617-506-7
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Printed in Canada
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