Formulas for Engineers

Ohm's Law (DC version)
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Ohm's Law (AC version)

Kirchhoff's Law

Power
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Resistance (Resistors in series)

Resistance (Resistors in parallel)

Inductance

Inductance for LR circuit decay, stored energy is calculated as follows

Capacitance

Capacitance (for n parallel plates)

Capacitance (for RC circuit discharge)

Capacitance (for stored energy)

Capacitance (for capacitors in series)

Capacitance (for capacitors in parallel)

Electrostatics

Electromagnetism

Magnetism

Magnetism (for a magnetic circuit)

Magnetism (for stored energy density)

AC Circuits
Sound
Note that decibels are not units as such but a ratio of voltages, currents and
power, for example:

where: P1, P2 are the power levels:

For differing input and output impedances the following formula is appropriate:

Where V1, V2 are the voltages
Z1, Z2 are the impedances.