Electrical engineering topics

This is a listing of electrical engineering topics and related terms.

Electromagnetism

• Electricity
• Magnetism
• Electromagnetic spectrum
  • Optical spectrum
• Electrostatics
  • Electric charge
  • Coulomb's law
  • Electric field
  • Gauss's law
  • Electric potential
• Magnetostatics
  • Electric current
  • Ampere's law
  • Magnetic field
  • Magnetic moment
• Electrodynamics
  • Lorentz force law
  • Electromotive force
  • Electromagnetic induction
  • Faraday-Lenz law
  • Displacement current
  • Maxwell's equations
  • Electromagnetic field
  • Electromagnetic radiation
• Electrical circuits
  • Electrical resistance
  • Capacitance
  • Inductance
  • Impedance
  • Resonant cavity
  • Waveguide

Laws

• Ampere's law
• Coulomb's law
• Faraday's law of induction/Farady-Lenz law
• Gauss's law
• Kirchhoff's circuit laws
  • Current law
  • Voltage law
• Maxwell's equations
  • Gauss's law
  • Faraday's law of induction
  • Ampere's law
• Ohm's law

Sub-fields

Control engineering

See Category:Control theory

• Adaptive control
• Control theory
• Digital control
• Non-linear control
• Optimal control
• Controllers:
  • Closed-loop controller
  • PID controller
  • State observer
• Properties:
  • Asymptotic stability
  • BIBO stability
  • Controllability
  • Marginal stability
  • Negative feedback
  • Observability
  • Positive feedback

Electronics

• Electrical network/Circuit
  • Circuit laws
    • Kirchhoff's circuit laws
      • Current law
      • Voltage law
    • Y-delta transform
    • Ohm's law
  • Electrical element/Discretes
    • Passive elements:
      • Capacitor
      • Inductor
      • Resistor
      • Hall effect sensor
    • Active elements:
      • Microcontroller
      • Operational amplifier
    • Semiconductors:
      • Diode
        • Zener diode
        • Light-emitting diode
        • PIN diode
        • Schottky diode
        • Avalanche diode
        • Laser diode
        • DIAC
      • Thyristor
      • Transistor
        • Bipolar transistor (BJT)
        • Field effect transistor (FET)
        • Darlington transistor
      • Triac

Power engineering

See Category:Electric power

• Generation
  • Generator
  • Hydropower
• Transmission
  • Pylon
  • Transformer
  • Transmission line
• Distribution
• Processes:
  • Alternating current
  • Direct current
  • Single-phase electric power
  • Two phase
  • Three-phase power

Signal processing

See Category:Signal processing

• Analog signal processing
• Digital signal processing: Category:Digital signal processing
  • Quantization
  • Sampling
    • Analog-to-digital converter, Digital-to-analog converter
    • Continuous signal, Discrete signal
    • Downsampling
    • Nyquist frequency
    • Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem
    • Oversampling
    • Sample and hold
    • Sampling frequency
    • Undersampling
    • Upsampling
  • Audio signal processing
    • Speech processing
  • Digital image processing
    • Geometric transformation
    • Color correction
    • Computer vision
    • Noise reduction
    • Edge detection
    • Image editting
    • Segmentation
• Filter
  • Analog filter
  • Audio filter
  • Digital filter
    • Finite impulse response
    • Infinite impulse response
  • Electronic filter
  • Equalization filter
  • Filter types: Category:Electronic filters
    • Band-pass filter
    • Band-stop filter
    • Butterworth filter
    • Chebyshev filter
    • High-pass filter
    • Kalman filter
    • Low-pass filter
    • Notch filter
    • Sallen Key filter
    • Wiener filter
• Transforms: Category:Transforms, Transforms
  • Advanced Z-transform
  • Bilinear transform
  • Continuous Fourier transform
  • Discrete cosine transform
  • Discrete Fourier transform, Fast Fourier transform (FFT)
  • Discrete sine transform
  • Fourier transform
  • Hilbert transform
  • Laplace transform, Two-sided Laplace transform
  • Z-transform

Instrumentation

• Actuator
• Electric motor
• Oscilloscope

See also

• Electrical engineering topics (alphabetical) -
• Engineering topics.