This book covers many of the concepts covered in an engineering degree program, but 1. not with the idea we're going to make the reader an engineer, 2. rather with the idea that the reader will be MUCH better able to discuss important design concepts with other engineering people they work with. A detailed book outline can be found here. Then it discusses the basic concepts of the three basic electronic components, resistors, capacitors, and inductors. Hydraulic analogs are used to help illustrate what capacitors and inductors do in circuits. Ohm's Law is introduced, as is series and parallel combinations of devices, and Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits.
Power is defined and then related to the current capacity of traces.
Magnetic fields, motors, generators, and transformers are introduced and then the book shows how all this relates to high speed design issues, covering such things as crosstalk, return signal paths, and differential wire pairs. There is a chapter on reactance. This is where we really get into frequencies and wavelengths, rise times, and resonance. The book looks hard at the relationship between the fundamental frequency of a square wave and the various harmonics that might be included within it, and a supplemental computer program is included that simulates some of the topics in the chapter. Ohm's Law for reactance is covered with a minimum of arithmetic but with a maximum view towards understanding.