Inductance Calculations (Dover Phoenix Editions)

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Summary: A handful of useful formulas only
Review: The theory at the start of the book will only be understood by those who already know the theory. Many self- and mutual inductance formulas, which could come in handy, although most are for such odd wire/coil configurations, I can't imagine a practical application. Some formulas are based on articles from 1912, which makes it difficult to verify the basis on which they were derived. Descriptions of conductor shapes are unclear, e.g. "Return Circuit of Two Tubular Conductors One Inside the Other. The radii of the tubes arranged in order of decreasing magnitude are p1, p2, p3, and p4". I assume this refers to the inner and outer radii of the two tubes. A drawing would have been better.

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Summary: Inductance Calculations by Grover-Review
Review: This book enables the inductor engineer to confidently design an inductor with little effort. It is an authoritative piece, including examples of any imaginable configuration for inductor design. A resource every electrical engineer should have.

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Summary: Authoritative work on inductor design.
Review: This book enables the inductor engineer to confidently design an inductor with little effort. It is an authoritative piece, including examples of any imaginable configuration for inductor design. A resource every electrical engineer should have.

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Summary: A classic, basic reference, but not a textbook/handbook
Review: This is the best source of inductance formulas available, but it does require some work to use. Good for correcting mistakes in other publications. Or, figuring out what their formulas mean; probably, the formula were copied from Grover. Planar spiral coils are handled, on page 105, as "disk" coils. By the way, this book is not out of print, despite the Amazon website, having been republished in 2004 by Dover as one of their Dover Phoenix Editions.

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Summary: Inductance Calculations by Grover-Review
Review: This old book (originally written in the '40s), is considered the bible of inductance calculations. For the modern user, however, it lacks many critical topics; for example spiral inductors (which is used extensively in integrated and planar modern circuits.) Also missing is calculations of inductor quality factor. Due to unavailibility of electronic computing at the time of publication, the book has many look-up tables. These tables are sometimes overly precise, for example, there is an extensive look-up table where essentially all numbers are between 0.99 and 1!. In engineering computations this type of accuracy is irrelevant, since other errors are more important. In the same computation the thickness of wires that make up the coil is not considered as a parameter, which is much bigger of an error than pendantic repetition of 0.9997 and 0.9998.