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The author's guiding philosophy in writing this book has three elements: to present basic concepts to readers in a general setting, to show how the principles of electrical engineering apply to specific problems in their own fields, and to remove frustration from the learning process. Emphasizing the basic concepts of the field, this book covers circuit analysis, digital systems, electronics, and electromechanics.
This book develops theoretical and experimental skills and experiences in the following areas: basic circuit analysis and measurement, first- and second-order transients, steady-state ac circuits, resonance and frequency response, digital logic circuits, microcontrollers (68HC11), computer-based instrumentation, diode circuits, electronic amplifiers, field-effect and bipolar junction transistors, operational amplifiers, ac and dc machines, and more.
For engineers or any other professionals who need a solid foundation in the basics of circuits, digital systems, analog electronics, and electromechanics.
Customer Reviews:
Good Advanced Text........2007-05-10
It does not seem that many people like this book. I used it for a sophmore level analog circuits course at my university. I found it to be an excellent text and very helpful in understanding electrical engineering. This text is designed to be read with a paper and pencil in hand. It is not a sit down and understand it kind of book. It requires some sincere and dedicated study, as the topic demands. It presents a number of difficult problems to help stretch the analytic capabilities of the student. It also comes with some very useful software. It isn't the best text book I have ever seen but it is close.
Not a good book.......2007-04-13
I had to get this book because my school required it but if I had the choice I would look for a better book. This book has no answers in the back and a select few on the book resources. The example problems are not very helpful and the book is confusing in almost every way.
Utter Waste of Time.......2006-07-17
Want to learn electrical engineering? Sit in a chair and do absolutely nothing for 10 hours. You won't learn anything, but you will learn more than what this book has to offer.
Norwegian.......2006-01-26
This book is merely a superficial survey of circuits; it takes the fun out of an interesting area. Look elsewhere for real understanding.
Truly aweful.......2005-11-12
I am required to use this text for an introductory EE course for non-EE majors at my university. The text is at times nearly cryptic (especially FETs), does not give enough examples, and unfortunately most of the problems in the book do not have answers (some are online.) And, in general, I feel unprepared academically to answer the end-of-chapter problems after reading the chapter and doing the (very few) examples. I have done online searches on some of the subjects in this book and come across free webpages with FAR better explanations. If you learn by doing problems, don't waste your money here.
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This classroom-tested approach is based on a successful course at Johns Hopkins University, originally developed to serve the needs of Westinghouse Co.
* Provides an excellent entry-level approach to understanding how to minimize complexity and maximize efficiency in industry and business.
* Each chapter will be accompanied by a set of problems to aid understanding.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent resource!.......2007-01-11
This book is a great text for those interested in learning or expanding your knowledge of systems engineering. Well presented with sound explanations on the concepts. My company has multiple copies in use. Highly recommended.
Regularly Used Reference.......2005-12-21
Useful in many of my process definition tasks. Essential text for any System Engineer.
Excellent SE text and reference.......2005-05-12
I have just completed the JHU program in Systems Engineering. This book is the foundation for the curriculum and is a very readable, solid overview of Systems Engineering. All phases of the system life-cycle are introduced and tied together to truly illustrate the process. The book focuses on processes, the tools used will change, but good Systems Engineering will stay the same. The process to derive good requirements that are able to be implemented and tested are the same regardless of technology or field.
Customer Reviews:
no math.......2007-05-25
Overall this book was OK. It presented the key information in money and banking and the authors often made it entertaining to read. However the one major flaw with the book is the lack of ANY math. I know that some books are marketed for a more mathematical approach and thus contain more advanced mathematics accordingly. However this book had so little math it was laughable. I recall one section where the authors said "this can be proven mathematically, but for now just take our word for it..."
NO, I won't take your word for it, because knowing the underlying principals is to truly understanding anything.
Poorly written.......2006-03-22
Principles of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets contains a great deal of information regarding economics in the United States. As a student, I find it to be poorly written. The authors/editors make constant reference throughout the text to other sections of the text. For example, we will discuss this in depth in chapter seven, but for now, lets reflect our continued study from chapter two and three. By doing so, we will be better prepared to read chapter eleven when we get to it. If the authors / editors left out the references and just left the actual information needed to learn the material, the student would be able to follow the material and perhaps understand the topic better. I am strongly encouraging our economics department to seek another text for future semesters.
Customer Reviews:
Immense volume, meager quality.......2007-09-06
This is a very large book covering many areas of digital signal processing. I bought a used copy of the third edition to replace an earlier one. Unfortunately, many of the errors - conceptual, not typographical - have remained. For example, the authors state in Sec. 8.3 that the frequency response of an elliptic (Cauer) filter is a rational function of a Jacobian elliptic function of frequency. An electrical engineer would know that a transfer function of a network of discrete components is a rational function of frequency, whereas the Jacobian elliptic is a transcendental function. The typographical error in the name of the mathematician Schur has finally been corrected attesting to the fact that neither author ever read the original paper. The presentation is extremely detailed in trivialities, with as many pictures, including a derivation of the sum of a geometric series as an exercise, a subject usually taught in high school. Finally, as another example, the solution's manual gives the wrong answer for Problem 2.9(a) stating, in effect, that a periodic function possesses a limit as its argument tends to infinity, showing complete ignorance of the notion of limit by the authors. Books such as this have little educational value, confusing the student with tons of irrelevant information, non-standard nomenclature - the Cauchy Residue Theorem in Sec. 3.1.2 is renamed to Cauchy Integral Theorem - and wrong answers. This book, if properly corrected, would be very useful.
Excellet handbook for system identification background.......2006-03-13
It's very very useful book for system identification specially newstarted, because of the fact that system identification is heavily related DFT, FFT, Spectral Analysis, Wiener-Khinchine relations and so on. Congratulations !!!
A great theoretical introduction to DSP.......2005-12-12
This book is a great theoretical introduction to DSP. Although its size looks intimidating and there is a lot of math, this book is very good for a beginner because firstly, the size of the book is due to numerous examples as well as clear and detailed explanations for most of the concepts and secondly, it is possible to skip over much of the math if you are so inclined and take away the gist of the section. This is the case in some of the more advanced topics covered which may be suitable for a second reading.
Some of the things I liked in this book are:
- The organization of the material and lucidity of the writing and explanation
- Consistency of notation
- The concepts of frequency in continuous and discrete time signals in Chapter 1
- The long introduction to discrete time systems and the concepts of linear time invariance in Chapter 2
- The explanation of Fourier series and Fourier transforms of continuous time and discrete time signals (periodic and non periodic) in Chapter 4 is the best part of this book
- Frequency domain characteristics of LTI systems in Chapter 4
- The way the DFT was introduced and its relationship with the DTFT in Chapter 5
- Sampling and reconstruction of signals in Chapter 9
Some of the things I did not like in this book are:
- The way the sampling theorem was derived in Chapter 4. In DSP you can derive the same thing in many ways but in many cases one method is more intuitive and simpler than the rest. There is an easier way to derive the sampling theorem
- There are mistakes in some equations. Not a major issue though
- There is no MATLAB or computer exercises or examples anywhere. This is a pity because you can learn so much and get a lot of insights with a few hours of DSP with MATLAB. Also there are some things like filter design which are done only on a computer
- I did not like the treatment of Multirate DSP in Chapter 10
- There is no treatment of 2D processing anywhere
On the whole this is a great theoretical introduction to DSP with a few minor drawbacks. I would still recommend this book over the ones by Oppenheim and Mitra for a beginner. But I would wait for the fourth edition that comes out in Feb. 2006 before buying any DSP book.
Something is missing ..........2004-10-29
This book was required for a graduate-level DSP course, but I found it quite insufficient for study without a VERY good set of classroom notes. There are mistakes in various equations throughout the text, little to no examples, and I have yet to find a solutions manual.
The one nice thing I can say about the text is that it is thorough in its coverage. The book covers almost every topic I can think of for both undergraduate and graduate-level courses. My course has supplemented the text with "Discrete-Time Signal Processing" by Oppenheim and Schafer as well as "Adaptive Filter Theory" by Haykin. I found Oppenheim's text to be better for the examples -- even buying the Shaum's Outline for DSP can suffice. Haykin's text is for our coverage of adaptive filter theory.
If you're looking for a good undergraduate text try B.P. Lathi's book "Signal Processing and Linear Systems" -- it's much better and has been used at my University for a number of years now to teach our two undergraduate-level DSP courses.
Solid Book.......2004-03-10
I am a graduate student at USC and this book I actually used in lieu of the assigned book Digital Signal Processing (by Mitra). I referred to this book mainly because the assigned book hardly had any intuitive explanations and was quite convoluted. Proakis did a much better job in terms of the relationships between the various Fourier Transforms without comprising mathematical rigor. I also have Lyons Understanding Digital Signal Processing which is great for people new to DSP but I felt it lacked some depth in certain areas and did not have sample problems. Overall Proakis does a solid job with this book. I'd recommend it after knowing the material in Lyon's book.
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Learn about the revolutionary new technology of negative-refraction metamaterials
Negative-Refraction Metamaterials: Fundamental Principles and Applications introduces artificial materials that support the unusual electromagnetic property of negative refraction. Readers will discover several classes of negative-refraction materials along with their exciting, groundbreaking applications, such as lenses and antennas, imaging with super-resolution, microwave devices, dispersion-compensating interconnects, radar, and defense.
The book begins with a chapter describing the fundamentals of isotropic metamaterials in which a negative index of refraction is defined. In the following chapters, the text builds on the fundamentals by describing a range of useful microwave devices and antennas. Next, a broad spectrum of exciting new research and emerging applications is examined, including:
* Theory and experiments behind a super-resolving, negative-refractive-index transmission-line lens
* 3-D transmission-line metamaterials with a negative refractive index
* Numerical simulation studies of negative refraction of Gaussian beams and associated focusing phenomena
* Unique advantages and theory of shaped lenses made of negative-refractive-index metamaterials
* A new type of transmission-line metamaterial that is anisotropic and supports the formation of sharp steerable beams (resonance cones)
* Implementations of negative-refraction metamaterials at optical frequencies
* Unusual propagation phenomena in metallic waveguides partially filled with negative-refractive-index metamaterials
* Metamaterials in which the refractive index and the underlying group velocity are both negative
This work brings together the best minds in this cutting-edge field. It is fascinating reading for scientists, engineers, and graduate-level students in physics, chemistry, materials science, photonics, and electrical engineering.
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Learn about the revolutionary new technology of negative-refraction metamaterials Negative-Refraction Metamaterials: Fundamental Principles and Applications introduces artificial materials that support the unusual electromagnetic property of negative refraction. Readers will discover several classes of negative-refraction materials along with their exciting, groundbreaking applications, such as lenses and antennas, imaging with super-resolution, microwave devices, dispersion-compensating interconnects, radar, and defense. The book begins with a chapter describing the fundamentals of isotropic metamaterials in which a negative index of refraction is defined. In the following chapters, the text builds on the fundamentals by describing a range of useful microwave devices and antennas. Next, a broad spectrum of exciting new research and emerging applications is examined, including: Theory and experiments behind a super-resolving, negative-refractive-index transmission-line lens 3-D transmission-line metamaterials with a negative refractive index Numerical simulation studies of negative refraction of Gaussian beams and associated focusing phenomena Unique advantages and theory of shaped lenses made of negative-refractive-index metamaterials A new type of transmission-line metamaterial that is anisotropic and supports the formation of sharp steerable beams (resonance cones) Implementations of negative-refraction metamaterials at optical frequencies Unusual propagation phenomena in metallic waveguides partially filled with negative-refractive-index metamaterials Metamaterials in which the refractive index and the underlying group velocity are both negative This work brings together the best minds in this cutting-edge field. It is fascinating reading for scientists, engineers, and graduate-level students in physics, chemistry, materials science, photonics, and electrical engineering.
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This book gives a broad treatment of the subject which will include 1)the optics, science, and physics needed to understand the technology 2)a description of applications with a critical look at how the technology will successfully address actual clinical need, and 3) a discussion of delivery of OCT to the patient, FDA approval and comparisons with available competing technologies.
The required mathematical rigor will be present where needed but be presented in such a way that it will not prevent non-scientists and non-engineers from gaining a basic understanding of OCT and the applications as well as the issues of bringing the technology to the market.
* Optical Coherence Tomography is a new medical high-resolution imaging technology which offers distinct advantages over current medical imaging technologies and is attracting a large number of researchers.
* Provides non-scientists and non-engineers basic understanding of Optical Coherence Tomography applications and issues.
Customer Reviews:
Up To Date Information on All Applications.......2007-02-24
A book that covers all important aspects of this technology,from development to various biomedical applications.
The Complete OCT Text.......2007-02-17
This is an outstanding book to bring the reader up to speed in
virtually all topics related to OCT. Among the greatest strengths of
the book is that almost every chapter is written by one author, something
rare in this era. The chapter on clinical trails may be a
little difficult for those without previous experience in this area,
but both this and chapter 12 do an excellent job outlining how
hypothesis driven research is performed. Similarly, chapters 5-8 are
likely challenging for those without a significant background in
mathematics. However, it is likely that readers from a wide range of
backgrounds will benefit from this book due to its diversity and
detail. This is a great book for both those new to the field as well
as experienced researchers.
An excellent resource for anyone interested in a deeper understanding of OCT.......2006-12-07
OCT: Principles and Applications is a cohesive text written by an investigator who understands the field from Maxwell's equations to clinical practice. Readers with a solid electromagnetics background will appreciate the detailed derivations and thorough coverage of OCT theory in Section II, including speckle, noise, common and uncommon variants of OCT, and practical instrument considerations. A comprehensive but brief introduction to basic mathematics and electromagnetics is given in Section I, which serves as an good review for those rusty on basic principles. Readers without a technical background may have difficulty with the equations in Section I and II, fortunately enough descriptive text is provided to enable anyone to follow the substance of derivations. Section III provides valuable information to engineers and physicians alike regarding the advantages and limitations of OCT for a variety of important applications. Typographical errors are a minor distraction. Overall this is an excellent first text for anyone wishing to delve beyond a superficial understanding of OCT, and a strong compliment to other available books on clinical applications and instrumentation developments in OCT.
Very Helpful.......2006-12-06
The book was very helpful. It covers information about OCT from both mathematical and physical aspects. The book starts out with a basic overview of the science of light and progresses into the more specific working of OCT technology. Almost every potential field where OCT would be used is covered. Section one is particularly good for physicians or anyone with only a biomedical background. I strongly recommend that engineers and physical scientists go through chapters 14 through 18, especially if they want to explore opportunities in an interdisciplinary field such as OCT.
OCT Book Review.......2006-12-05
The author has made outstanding contributions to the field of OCT through his conference presentations and journal publications and this book is another such contribution. This is the first book on OCT available written in a classical text book format covering a wide range of topics from the most basic engineering background material to advanced clinical topics. The book is written in a format that is suitable for someone new to the field, useful to those experienced in the field, and suitable as an adjunct for a university course. I highly recommend the book
Book Description
THE WORLD'S LEADING GUIDE TO BATTERY TECHNOLOGY
Comprehensive, coherent, and completely up-to-date, Handbook of Batteries, Third Edition brings you the expertise of 80 of the world's top experts -- a wealth of hands-on knowledge compiled and edited by two pioneering researchers who are top-ranked consultants to the battery industry.,
Making vital data and equations instantly accessible for a wide range of applications, the Handbook has more authoritative information than any other source on the characteristics, properties, and performance of every major battery type.
This edition's four new chapters give you new, fully-detailed information on Lithium Ion and Propulsion and Industrial Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries, and portable fuel cells -- including small fuel cells (less than 1000 Watts) which are potentially competitive with battery sytems.
Thoroughly updating all developments in the field since 1995, the Third Edition of this ultimate state-of-the-art guide:
*Brings you up to speed on today's cutting edge battery technologies, materials and methods
*Helps you predict battery performance under all operating conditions
*Simplifies the selection of the most suitable batteries for a wide range of applications
Customer Reviews:
The most comprehensive battery almanac ever.......2007-01-04
I bought this book because I had an assignment at work that required me to learn every possible thing about lithium ion batteries. I consulted general interest encyclopedias, battery experts at universities, and various online sources, but none of the above provided the comprehensive, unbiased information that Handbook of Batteries promised. It includes useful comparison charts and historical information about the development of single-use and secondary batteries, from the clunky short-lived lead-acid battery of the 1800s to the fuel cells of today. The language is surprisingly easy to understand for the lay person.
The downsides are that it weighs a ton and that the pages are so dense that you might as well be reading a dictionary cover to cover--a dictionary that's all about batteries.
THE Authoritative Book on Batteries.......2003-02-26
As a battery engineer, I've found this handbook the single most useful technical reference in battery design, application, and troubleshooting.
The chapters are divided by battery chemistry, and each is written by an expert in the field. Most chapters include detailed technical descriptions of chemistry, electrical characteristics, construction details, applications, and pros/cons charts.
The 3rd edition features significant changes, including updates to older sections as well as new sections on progress in advanced battery systems, and an immense new section on lithium-ion batteries.
My only complaint is the lack of uniformity across chapters in terms of informational content and format. This can make comparison of battery technologies difficult. Some chapters go into too much technical detail, while some others leave out critical considerations.
These are relatively minor quibbles, however, and do not make the Handbook any less valuable to anyone dealing with batteries or other energy storage systems.
Handbook of Batteries.......2000-02-13
a very good book on tips of batteries. if i had never even read it, i would have died of an electrical shock my sister almost gave me.Read this book, it could save your life.
i'm an electrical power engineer.......1999-09-14
electricity and machines , generators and so on.
Great source to defend against Internet misinformation........1999-05-15
I got this book when it was published in 1995, and have used it at least twice a year just using NiCd batteries. There are many times I read something on the Internet that is simply wrong according to this book. I have used NiCd batteries that I would have otherwise thrown away because the information in this book told me that they were not irreparably damaged.
Customer Reviews:
Good Refernce book.......2005-11-12
Good reference book. It provids concepts and material important for graduate studies and industry. I recommand it.
Little bit disappoint.......2005-05-15
This has many typos, which can be frustrating in following the context. And I found out that the typos are different to other 2nd editions. Little bit disappointing.
A very technical book.......2005-04-21
I recommend this book for anyone pursuing a Certification like CWNA, CWNP or other wireless certifications. The technical concepts which are at the core of design, implementation, research, and invention of wireless communication systems are presented in an order that is conducive to understanding the general concepts, as well as those specific to current and evolving wireless communication systems and standards.
The Author has done a great job of explaining Radio wave propagation which has historically been the most difficult problem to analyze and design for, since unlike a wired communication system which has a constant, stationary transmission channel (i.e., a wired path), radio channels are random and undergo shadowing and multipath fading, particularly when one of the terminals is in motion. I particularly liked the chapter on modeling spatial-temporal channels, which is vital for the development of smart antennas and position location systems.
The appendices contain hundreds of mathematical formulas and identities for general engineering work.
The compilation of the major wireless standards makes this book particularly useful as a single source of information for a wide range of wireless systems that are commercially deployed today.
I gave this book 4 stars as I feel that the problems included in the book should have the answers as well.
Niloufer Tamboly, CISSP
One of the Best Book.......2005-04-14
This is one of the best book for this field!
Unorganized textbook.......2003-02-24
this book is not good for the beginner in wireless communication. I have to use this textbook, because it's the requirement form my instructor.
the author didn't organize this book as well as he should. All equations are not well explained...Sometime the students need to guess where this variable stands for or what parameter's meaning is. He wrote like the literature or drama.....no space for equation's explanation...all of them are in the same paragrah.
i really don't recommend this textbook and i still don't understand why my instructor uses this text
Book Description
Virtually every computing system today is part of a distributed system. Programmers, developers, and engineers need to understand the underlying principles and paradigms as well as the real-world application of those principles. Now, internationally renowned expert Andrew S. Tanenbaum – with colleague Martin van Steen – presents a complete introduction that identifies the seven key principles of distributed systems, with extensive examples of each.
Adds a completely new chapter on architecture to address the principle of organizing distributed systems. Provides extensive new material on peer-to-peer systems, grid computing and Web services, virtualization, and application-level multicasting. Updates material on clock synchronization, data-centric consistency, object-based distributed systems, and file systems and Web systems coordination.
For all developers, software engineers, and architects who need an in-depth understanding of distributed systems.
Customer Reviews:
Decent book for students.......2007-06-18
If you're expecting a "how-to" manual on writing distributed systems, this isn't it. It has an excellent coverage of some fundamental principles - I used it as a text book for a distributed systems course and found it very useful. The course and this book changed the way I think about system architecture. Some readers may find the material dry - it is, but in the end it's rewarding. It helps to have an exam at the end to drive you through this book. To the reviewer who said that it doesn't mention what's wrong with distributed objects or NFS, you'll find that it gives you the tools to see past the glossy hype of whatever the latest fad is (distributed objects, web services, or whatever else) and ask serious questions about how it handles failure, security, replication, etc.
Having said that, there were glaring grammatical errors, especially towards the end (the chapter on Distributed File Systems). I am surprised that it got past the editors. Also I had to re read some sections several times before I understood them (like the part about reliable group communication). It's still better than going through individual papers, but a more readable revised edition wouldn't hurt.
Good theorical book.......2007-03-17
If you buy this book expecting to learn how to do some web, rmi, corba or any other kind of distributed systems development then don't buy this one. This book is now a good source of theorical material, I'm currently using this book because of the theorical material but often I have to complement the information with other books like "Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design (4th Edition)" (by: Coulouris) which has more indepth RMI practices and is also a good information source.
Not worth to read.......2006-12-25
I hope to choose 0 star if I could. I agree with one of the reviewer said the book loses it's focus. For example, the way it introduces Java RMI is very disappointed: it neither clearly described the idea very well nor the implementation. Therefore you end up learning nothing. You would say this is a academic textbook but in contrast, the Silberschatz's classic "Operating System concept" does the RMI introduction pretty well.
Horribly written.......2006-12-09
I enjoyed and learned a lot from both of Tanenbaum's OS textbooks, but this is really awful. On the one hand, the descriptions of things such as RPC are so abstract that I can't see how anyone could be expected to understand what a real RPC system would look like; on the other hand, there's not nearly enough effort made to give a picture of how the systems discussed fit into the broader context of computer science, or relate to each other.
Moreover, the book is badly written: the writing is alternately overly colloquial and overly academic in style, as if it were written by someone very smart, but for whom English is a second language.
too many junks in the book.......2006-09-27
I have to say it's a book full of junks and gaudy texts. The author wants to cover all the topics in this field but he ignores the readability as a scientific reader. Most of the time you may find all the texts are lack of focus.
Book Description
Rizzoni is designed for the sophomore/junior level, Introduction to Electrical Engineering course required for non-EE majors. The most widely used book for this course, Rizzoni introduces non-majors to the three basic areas of electrical engineering: circuits, electronics, and electromechanics. The second edition continues the tradition of focusing on the topics and issues of interest to the non-electrical engineering student. To maintain student interest in these topics, Rizzoni provides numerous links between electrical engineering and other engineering fields.
Customer Reviews:
Absolute waste of money.......2007-10-17
I don't know what else to say other than this book is quite possibly the worst engineering book ever written. As has been stated previously, it is full of errors. Not only that, but this book is about as organized as a two year-old's toy box! The meat of the text blends in with examples, several "help" boxes scattered throughout are a huge distration (and not very helpful), and the reader can go through a chapter without knowing where one concept ends and another begins.
If your school uses this book, petition them to use another. Unfortunately, since this guy is a professor here at OSU, we have to use it. If you're forced to buy it, get the Schaum's outlines instead - they do a much better job teaching the subject.
Horrible.......2007-09-23
This is the absolute worst text I've ever used for any class. It excels at writing volumes that explain nothing. The mistakes in the text, problems, and solutions are too numerous to make this book have even marginal utility. Important principles are explained through applications that often require additional knowledge and just confuse people. If you have a class that requires this text, buy ANY other circuits text and photocopy the problem sets. Tell your prof that (s)he should dump this book. It's a complete waste of your time and money to even attempt to deal with this text.
Excessive errors.......2007-06-14
I am currently in a engineering circuits class that requires this book. The 5th edition has a letter attached for the first page stating the company's commitment to accuracy. The letter then describes 7 steps taken to verify the content and accuracy.
I have just started and chapter 2 is loaded with errors in the example and homework problems.
I wish I could get my money back or a manual filled with corrections. I can not even do the homework or read the chapters on my own with confidence because there is no telling when I am wrong or the book is.
Awful textbook, avoid.......2007-01-16
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who has struggled with this textbook. It made simple concepts seem more difficult than those in my most advanced classes (I'm about to graduate). If you have to use this textbook for a class, I recommend getting another book out of the library to learn the concepts. Better yet, photocopy the problems you need from a friend and avoid this book all together.
Worst textbook ever written. Period........2006-11-08
I'm not sure who is supposed to benefit from the use of this textbook. I am a 4.0 student at a leading university. I bust my butt and work hard to understand material and ask questions of professors, research on the web, and spend as many hours outside class as needed in order to understand the material introduced by the textbooks used in my courses.
This book is, without a doubt, the least helpful, most error-ridden, topic brushing, irrelevent-example-giving, important-step-skipping book I have EVER had the misfortune to use. If you have a professor who uses this book for their course, DON'T TAKE THAT CLASS. Find another school or professor or major. Really.
Over the course of this past semester, for every hour I've spent reading this textbook I estimate that I've had to spend three hours researching the web or referencing other EE books. I am NOT KIDDING. From the simplest, most basic concepts (KCL, KVL and how to set up node and mesh equations using the "passive element" convention) to the most modest 2nd order circuits (frequency response of an RLC bandpass circuit), this book cannot seem to explain ANYTHING clearly, completely, and without glossing over concepts that may be *gasp* NEW to students whose major is NOT EE! There isn't a single topic covered by this book that I haven't had to do further research on in order to fully grasp. Unbelievable.
If this review seems to be negative or overly critical, that's exactly how it's intended. Maybe others can get a sense of the frustration they'll experience while trying to learn from this book. With any luck, they'll be able to avoid the book, the frustration, and the (literally) dozens of nonproductive hours of ancillary research required because the author of seems to be so out of touch with the needs of his intended audience.
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- Electrical Wiring Residential: Based On The 2005 National Electric Code (Softcover) (Electrical Wiring Residential)
- Electronic Communications for Technicians (2nd Edition)
- Embedded Microcomputer Systems: Real Time Interfacing
- EMI Troubleshooting Techniques
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- Fundamentals of Power Electronics (Second Edition)
- Fundamentals of Power Electronics (Second Edition)
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