General principles of motor control -- Symbols and schematic diagrams -- Manual starters -- Overload relays -- Relays, contactors, and motor starters -- Control transformer -- Timing relays -- Pressure switches and sensors -- Float switches -- Flow switches and sensors -- Limit switches -- Phase failure relays -- Solenoid and motor operated valves -- Temperature sensing devices -- Hall effect sensors -- Proximity detectors -- Photodetectors -- Basic control circuits -- Schematics and wiring diagrams (circuit #1) -- Timed starting for three motors (circuit #2) -- Float switch control of a pump and pilot lights (circuit #3) -- Developing a wiring diagram (circuit #1) -- Developing a wiring diagram (circuit #2) -- Developing a wiring diagram (circuit #3) -- Reading large schematic diagrams -- Installing control systems -- Hand-off-automatic controls -- Multiple push-button stations -- Forward-reverse control -- Jogging and inching -- Sequence control -- DC motors -- Starting methods for DC motors -- Solid-state DC drives -- Stepping motors -- Motor and starting methods --

Resistor and reactor starting for AC motors -- Autotransformer starting -- Wye-Delta starting -- Part winding starters -- Consequent pole motors -- Variable voltage and magnetic clutches -- Braking -- Wound rotor induction motors -- Synchronous motors -- Variable frequency control -- Motor installation -- Developing control circuits -- Troubleshooting -- Digital logic -- Bouceless switch -- Start-stop push-button control -- Programmable logic controllers -- Programming a PLC -- Analog sensing for programmable controllers -- Semiconductors -- PN junction -- Zener diode -- Light-Emitting diodes and photodiodes -- Transistor -- Unijunction transistor -- SCR -- Diac -- Triac -- 555 timer -- Operational amplifier -- Appendix : Testing solid-state components -- Identifying the leads of a three-phase, Wye-connected, dual-voltage motor -- Ohm's Law formulas -- Standard wiring diagram symbols -- Electronic symbols.