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Electric Circuits: w/PSpice WITH Physics for Scientists and Engineers A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics (chs 1-42) w/Mastering Physics ... Engineering Mathematics
Over a decade in print, Electric Circuits by Jim Nilsson has traveled through the circuits course with over 175,000 students. The overwhelming popularity of this text is largely the result of the author's unique ability to communicate the concepts of circuit design through the experience he gives students in his end-of-chapter problem sets. More than practice, practice, practice, the problems sets are carefully developed to nurture the student through the complex process of applying mathematics and analysis to circuit design. As educators are now moving to empower students with the computational resources of the computer and to challenge them with the issues of design, co-author Susan Riedel has contributed two chapters on design in active filters and two new alternative supplements, Using Computer Tools for Electric Circuits, and Introduction to PSpice. Both the main text and new supplements -- which are free to students -- promote the encounter with design alongside traditional problems of analysis.
Provides a superior pedagogy in the worked examples that are skillfully-developed to accomplish specific learning objectives as outlined in the Instructor's Manual. Delivers 600 New Problems! 70% of the end-of-chapter problems are new or revised. Gives students an experience of design with electric circuits in two new chapters on active filters and with design problems, examples, and applications integrated throughout the text and the free computer supplement. Includes a free computer supplement, Using Computer Tools for Electric Circuits that encourages students to use the computer tools at hand to do their homework. Delivers six new real-world motivating examples -- called "Practical Perspectives"-- that show how the concepts of the chapter are applied in the design of everyday devices.
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December 3, 2017
"We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when all things shall be found out." I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit." ~ Oliver Heaviside
This textbook is one of the more creative textbooks I've run across, where it draws circuits and ask questions mostly from a pedagogical point of view. It's trying to teach undergraduates how to solve circuits. The problem with their approach is that it allows engineering to get in the way of that approach. It isn't that it's not only less rigorous but it is littered with errors by approximation. I mean there are many sections where it uses 22/7 as a "good approximation" of pi.
I guess I'll go over a quick overview of the subject. When doing circuits analysis you're making the assumption that propagation of electricity happens instantaneously, another way of saying this is that you're assuming the speed of light is infinity. This leads you to making the assumption that there is no charge accumulation on any nodes. If you make these two assumptions then you can start to build networks which have rules that govern them called KVL and KCL, with a trivial result from graph theory that states the "number of branches" = "number of meshes" + "number of nodes" - 1. The most important subject covered in the book is the transfer function, where given some input and an output's impulse response you can calculate any output. Any response is some combination of the natural response and forced response, essentially an algebraic relationship, column space and null space.
The book delves into this theory somewhat. In some ways it thinks quite deeply about these things, even for a book meant to be introductory for undergraduates. In other ways it does not scratch the surface.
The book excels when it's playing a game with theory. Analysis is one thing, you need it to begin to understand how to do synthesis but when the book goes into unpacking the theory.
This textbook is one of the more creative textbooks I've run across, where it draws circuits and ask questions mostly from a pedagogical point of view. It's trying to teach undergraduates how to solve circuits. The problem with their approach is that it allows engineering to get in the way of that approach. It isn't that it's not only less rigorous but it is littered with errors by approximation. I mean there are many sections where it uses 22/7 as a "good approximation" of pi.
I guess I'll go over a quick overview of the subject. When doing circuits analysis you're making the assumption that propagation of electricity happens instantaneously, another way of saying this is that you're assuming the speed of light is infinity. This leads you to making the assumption that there is no charge accumulation on any nodes. If you make these two assumptions then you can start to build networks which have rules that govern them called KVL and KCL, with a trivial result from graph theory that states the "number of branches" = "number of meshes" + "number of nodes" - 1. The most important subject covered in the book is the transfer function, where given some input and an output's impulse response you can calculate any output. Any response is some combination of the natural response and forced response, essentially an algebraic relationship, column space and null space.
The book delves into this theory somewhat. In some ways it thinks quite deeply about these things, even for a book meant to be introductory for undergraduates. In other ways it does not scratch the surface.
The book excels when it's playing a game with theory. Analysis is one thing, you need it to begin to understand how to do synthesis but when the book goes into unpacking the theory.
August 13, 2011
Sure it was a class textbook but I still look at it from time to time. My first semester with it I utterly hated it!! But after the 2nd semester of circuits I found that I liked it. I am not really sure if it is a good textbook or if perhaps I am suffering from something analogous to Stockholm syndrome. At this point I can pretty much find the section I am looking for with my eyes closed.
April 9, 2022
I read the 2nd edition, no others. It's been a long time, but I learned a helluva lot from this book, even though I'm a M.E., not an E.E., but have great respect for electrical engineering and the marvels resulting from the practice of the same.
BTW, I still have the 2nd edition. It was published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. beginning in 1983.
BTW, I still have the 2nd edition. It was published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. beginning in 1983.
July 6, 2017
I have never had the slightest interest in circuits until I read this book. I wouldn't say it made me interested, but I currently feels its positive effect. (pun intended)
March 25, 2023
Un libro estándar para los cursos de Circuitos Eléctricos para Ingeniería Eléctrica. Tiene ejemplos muy buenos y es bastante ordenado. Sin embargo, es preferible las nuevas versiones en inglés porque son bastante cómodas para la lectura ya que incluye colores. La versión en español es bastante hostil en ese sentido ya que está en escala de grises. Sus materias principales son:
- Introducción a los circuitos.
- Circuitos de primer y segundo orden (en donde el libro se destaca)
- Amplificadores operacionales.
- Circuitos en corriente alterna.
- Circuitos trifásicos (del cual es bastante débil su contenido)
- Transformada de Fourier y Laplace aplicada a circuitos.
- Filtros.
- Redes de dos puertos.
- Introducción a los circuitos.
- Circuitos de primer y segundo orden (en donde el libro se destaca)
- Amplificadores operacionales.
- Circuitos en corriente alterna.
- Circuitos trifásicos (del cual es bastante débil su contenido)
- Transformada de Fourier y Laplace aplicada a circuitos.
- Filtros.
- Redes de dos puertos.
April 25, 2020
Excellent introduction to circuit analysis. If your professor has chosen this textbook, pay attention!
May 12, 2020
Saved me in multiple classes.
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June 21, 2021after attempting to read this book, i can now definitively conclude that electricity isn't real
April 21, 2022
The hero.I love that book
June 29, 2010
Este é o livro que me acompanhou nesta semana. Espero que, com ele, o exame de amanhã se torne menos agreste.
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January 24, 2016
It covers Laplace transforms for electric circuits in a very difficult way. I needed it for control system but this did not cover that topic. Very hard book.
October 23, 2014
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