Ralph Morrison Consulting

Engineering expertise from analog to GHz logic

    The first book to the right is called Grounding and Shielding -Circuits and Interference. It is my first book and also my most recent one-its first edition came out in 1967, and the current edition was published in 2007. There has been a new edition every ten years, to keep pace with a changing technology.

   Circuit theory has its limitations in areas such as power grids, lightning, ESD, energy movement, circuit board design and radiation.  This book provides a bridge between these topics and the world of practical circuits.  The book explains how noise interferes with circuits based on elementary principles.  Both analog and digital circuits are discussed.   I added a chapter devoted to digital electronics to this 5th Edition.

    This book is called Grounding and Shielding in Facilities and was published in 1999. It was written to provide a different look at the National Electrical Code, which is a set of rules without a rationale.  I wanted to organize the rules and shows the engineer why they are needed.  There are many ways to use the rules so that a facility can be electrically quiet.  This book is a tool to help engineers understand the role grounding and shielding plays in providing electrical safety as well as isolation from many types of interference.

    This next one is called The Fields of Electronics. It is a book I really felt I needed to write, because it sets out the principles that are most important in understanding electric interference.

    Electric and magnetic fields are at the heart of all electrical activity.  Understanding how fields relate to all circuit behavior provides a basis for explaining interference and circuit performance.  This book was written to provide engineers with a field understanding of how all circuits work.  When circuit theory fails to provide answers this book is a place to look for help.

    These two books, Electricity and Practical Electronics, are the only ones I have written for non-engineers. They are part of Wiley’s Self-Teaching Guide series. I have tried to give a good basic understanding of these subjects, grounded in physics but non-mathematical. They would be useful to a smart high-school student who is considering engineering as a career, or perhaps to a working engineer who hasn’t been active in electronics and would like to review some basics. My wife helped me with these books. She is a writer too, but is completely innocent of all knowledge of things electrical. So she reviewed my text to make sure it could be easily understood!

Here are some of the books I have written over the years. All of them were published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. The images are links to Amazon.com, so if you’re interested in buying one you can do so easily.