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Summary: Personally, I love this book.
Review: I can understand why some people don't like the book. It is brief and odd. However, it is one my favorite books in recent years. It covers lots of things in essence in 600+ pages in a cohesive, well structured manner. In many detailed textbooks, the authors would adopt a non-rigorous way of arriving at concepts, which was easy to read, but not the method they themselves would use in a paper. When we go to grad school, many of us are surprised by the different derivation methods used for the same idea. In this book, it never tried to say "hey, read me and you will understand everything." It says "read me, and you have nothing to lose and may even gain something." Reading this book probably brings you closer to how a good engineer/scientist thinks rather than what an author wants you to think, as in other books. The thoughts are well developed. It is a joy to read if you start from page 1 slowly. This is the kind of book you want to have on a deserted island, not something to read the night before an exam or while stuck by a problem. Not enough detials for exams or lab, but enough to open your eyes. In my personal opinion, unless you are outrageously smart, this is the kind of books that can rescue you from being just another average engineer.
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Summary: College Level Text for College Level Students
Review: Siebert is the ONLY circuits text in print, that I have found,
that stesses signals/systems concepts and is directed to real
BS degree candidates. The problems are informative, challenging,
and puts EE students on the path to becoming real, thinking,
contributing engineers. Quite contrary to ALL of the other
undergraduate texts that come out in an even lower, more
insultingly watered-down version every two years, Siebert gets
BETTER every year, if only by comparison. I love the way it
uses the prerequisite differential equations course; without which electric circuits cannot and do not exist. Students should
find it a fun book to read; full of insight and EE applications.
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Summary: One of the worst engineering texts ever...
Review: This is cerainly one of the most poorly written engineering text books I have ever had the displeasure of useing. It is greatly lacking in any sort of detail required for advanced study, is lacking in useful examples, and at times it almost seems as though Siebert is intentionally using unclear languange in order to confuse the reader as much as possible. I would highly recommend Oppenheim and Willsky's book Signals and Systems for a much more through and well presented treatment of the material, coupled with any of the many good EE textbooks if you are combining your study of signals with circuits.
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Summary: One of the worst engineering texts ever...
Review: This is cerainly one of the most poorly written engineering text books I have ever had the displeasure of useing. It is greatly lacking in any sort of detail required for advanced study, is lacking in useful examples, and at times it almost seems as though Siebert is intentionally using unclear languange in order to confuse the reader as much as possible. I would highly recommend Oppenheim and Willsky's book Signals and Systems for a much more through and well presented treatment of the material, coupled with any of the many good EE textbooks if you are combining your study of signals with circuits.
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