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Summary: Worst Book I have ever seen
Review: This book is the worst! First the are very few example problems, in fact I found myself in the library checking out other circuits book, because this one had no expiations or examples for a problem included in its text. Once I did learn how to solve the circuit; I had no way to check my answers, because there isn't any student's solution manual available. Lastly and most aggravating, and the reason I urge you not to buy this book... The answers in the back are wrong! To my estimates (and I am not exaggerating,) about 1:3 or wrong, or have errors in one form or another. How is a student supposed to learn if his/her answers are correct? but the book tells you otherwise. Please do not use this book; it is useless!
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Summary: Not Worth It
Review: This book is [costly]for what it's worth. I am a CS student and after taking the Digital Circuits class, wanted to learn some electric circuits out of interest. I wasn't taking a class in my university (Univ. of Idaho) but this was the required book for the introduction to circuits class. So i bought this, and tried to learn on my own. It was a nightmare. The basic concepts aren't explained well at all. The introductory chapters are just for the sake of it. The author uses a lot of calculus in places where it's not even required. If this is the required book for the first EE class, then I can assume many would have a wrong impression of EE and drop out. I read Schaums or however thats spelt, and that made life so much easier and simpler..Analyzing the circuits even in Nilsson's book was easy. Final Word: Don't read this book..Atleast if you want an introduction / window into Electric Circuits.
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Summary: Very inadequate
Review: This book only brings sorrow and aggravation into a student's life. The book is not thorough in its explanations and the problems at the end of each chapter are too hard compared to the example problems. There aren't any degrees of difficulty, many of them are anything but easy! This book is not recommended to use in any EE class!
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Summary: Terrible, awful, atrocious.
Review: This book replaced the book I used for the first portion of advanced circuit analysis, called Linear Circuit Analysis. That book wasn't great, but I could glean some useful information from it.
THIS BOOK .... The authors don't have any examples in the chapters. They don't explain things clearly. The drill excercises aren't even worked.
Perhaps an analogy would be helpful. Write a math book for 3rd graders. Intorduce the concept of division: " an integer which is not prime is divisible by two other integers" and then give them a massive and confusing problem set. Don't define the word integer. Don't work any problems. Bleagh!
So far, I've managed to learn this from this text: Mr. Nilsson and Ms. Riedel are clearly way more intelligent than I am. What possible use could I have for an example? To be more specific, I grasp the concepts they present (not much thanks to them), but am unable to perform the mechanics of the operations, which in no case that I can find are shown.
I guess I'll have to ask the paperboy for help.
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Summary: worst ever
Review: This is the worst text book I have ever had throughout any educational program. I strongly suggest requesting your school to use another book for circuit theory. There are error after error in this book and the publisher even forgot to attach appendix G. The example problems have incomplete solutions and are elementary compared to the difficult homework problems. The writers of this book must have expected you to only use this book as a work book because the methods discussed dont prepare you for the homework. Stay away from this book. Also the binding is week as mine has come apart after 1 semester (and i bought it new)
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Summary: Lacking
Review: This textbook is missing so many of the key ingredients that make a good textbook -- I am still amazed at the large amount of instructors that continue to use this inefficient and lacking text as their main instruction manual.
Using this in a circuits course probably will not help you and will make the subject more confusing most likely. If you have a poor instructor as well, consider yourself lost for the class. Get another text. The examples in here are so simple but then the homework problems make these conceptual leaps that prove quite challenging for students -- even engineering students.
This book needs quite a bit of improvement before I would use it as my main circuits text.
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Summary: most pitiful textbook I have ever seen
Review: Upon doing the first homework assignments, this literally made me contemplate dropping electrical engineering in favor of something like industrial. Thankfully not all books are like this. As others have noted, the book doesn't provide answers. Immediate feedback is absolutly critical and an expected feature of a modern textbook. Next, this book assumes way too much--I'm an A science/math student and this book's had me completely confused. The first chapter's "drill exercises" had you using calculus before you even knew what you were doing. Another problem in the first section asks you to analyze a problem but doesn't even mention basics of parallel/series circuits and the effects they have on the circut. You have to look it up in another book! The book also gives you quite a length of rope adequate for a mass-hanging of yourself and your classmates. It really needs to start with one naive, simplified method and slowly introduce new concepts as you gain experience and understanding with what you have learned. I am woefully and needlessly confused with the explanations presented. This is absolute garbage.
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Summary: The very best of them all!!
Review: Upon looking at the reviews for this excellent book. I was so staggered that people have given it low marks. I really think this is the best introduction to electrical engineering available anywhere. There's lots of problems in the book and the material is presented in a very good manner. I should know since I personally read this book from cover to cover with little difficulty thanks to the wonderfully laid out information and diagrams and the explanations by mr wilsson and mrs riedel. The book starts with the basics of electricity and electric current and takes you through network theorems and introduces resistors, capacitors and inductors. It then takes you through kirchoff's laws, phasors, complex analysis, frequency analysis, laplace transforms, transformers, fourier series and fourier transforms. There is a lot of info in this book. This is the book that taught me electric network analysis. I highly recommend this book.
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