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Summary: The most confusing book on circuits i have ever read
Review: This book is not capable of making the reader understand its concepts .No sufficient features favoring the students who are just introduced to the subject.Instead of providing motivation towards the subject the book tends to confuse the reader and thereby promoting hatered towards the subject. Just a waste of time and money.
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Summary: For intro. electric circuits, an instructor is recommended
Review: This book is supposed to be taught hand in hand with calculus. The two supplement eachother. You must know calculus at the very least, and better yet a solid undertanding of elementary differential equations. The end of chapter problems are well laid out and varied. There are design, verification, and complete analytical problems. The book introduces the concept behind being able to look at a circuit and analyzing key components such as voltage, current, resistance, inductance, capacitance, impedence, by using KVL, KCL, mesh analysis, superpostion, and other key techniques. Good book but the very long errata for this book means only 3 stars.
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Summary: Useless book
Review: This book is the most useless text that could be used in a first year electric circuits course. As the other reviewers have pointed out, the examples do not relate to the material which has been covered in the chapter. The extensive use of calculus in my opinion is also not necessary, and is the work of a complete academic. The idea of a first year circuits class is to teach the student methods of basic circuit analysis and how circuits can relate to the real world. If you really want to learn how circuits work I highly reccomend that you do not waste your time with this book. I must also like to point out that some other reviewers have slandered reviews such as mine. More specifically, these individuals appear to think that only "simple minded morons" or "dumb jocks" share the same opinion as mine towads this book. To prove these individuals wrong, I happen to be an Electrical Engineer and an Electronics Technician - and I still think that this book is for complete academics who have no respect for the educational benefit of the reader.
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Summary: The Worst Textbook I've Ever Had
Review: This book is without a doubt the worst textbook I have ever been assigned in a college course. It is useless as a reference, it is boring, and the layout does nothing more than confuse the reader. I knew that this textbook was bad when I tried to look up a formula that I had forgotten. The book was not able to explain to me something that I ALREADY KNEW. What a shame.
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Summary: Waste of Time and Money!
Review: This book is worthless. Its not even worth the paper it is printed on. You will spend way to much time trying to figure out little simple details, that aren't well explained. The problems at the end of the section don't follow along with the exercises in the book. It is confusing and it doesn't do all the steps in the math involved making the math hard to follow. The programs on the CD don't follow the examples in the book. I have James A. Svoboda for a professor and he makes little more sense than the book. I paid about a 100 bucks for this book, and if it doesn't get burned when I get out of Svoboda's class I'd be surprised.
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Summary: Not too good, Not too bad
Review: This book isn't really as horrible as other reviews indicate. The basic fact is that you gotta have a strong foundation in calculus and basic physics before trying to take on this book. I strongly reccomend these pre-requisites are very crucial in order to understand even little bit of what goes on inside this book. I agree ithe book is very confusing for a beginner or a person who's totally new into circuits but in my opinion the whole thing depends on how strong your background is in calculus and university phsyics. For me the book works, i haven't encountered much difficulty although i did have to struggle sometimes with some chapter problems in the book. Overall, i'd give this book 7 and a half out of 10, on a scale of 0 to 10.
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Summary: A easy book for people who really understand calculus
Review: This book was written as an introductory book in electrical circuits, i. e., to engineering students who have a good basis in calculus. Unlike others said, this book is not hard to understand. It is easy and it is a great book in its area. Obviously, if you never studied circuits in physics before, even at high school, you should probably think it's hard to understand.
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Summary: Don't Use This Book!
Review: This is, to date, one of the worst textbooks I have been made to use in a college class. The text does _not_ give general formule for the principles it explains, but instead uses numbers almost exclusively in example problems, leaving the student to wonder just what is really going on. Every week, when I sit down to work my Circuits I homework, I feel like hanging Dorf and Svoboda by their mustaches - all because this book is so wretched. The end-of-chapter problems are useless to help understand concepts, as they frequently do not relate adequately to the material presented in each section.If you ever read this, Dorf, Svoboda, please stop trying to confuse students with your work. If you want to teach, teach. If you want to be confusing, go into law.
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Summary: Not a useful introduction
Review: This text book was not easy to read or understand. It is NOT a textbook for an introduction to circuit theory. The example problems were simple but the exercises and problems did not ease a student into the understanding of electric circuits. The book tried to give a failed introduction into filters and signals. It can not be used as a reference book, you can never find what you are looking for.
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