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Introductory Circuits for Electrical And Computer Engineering (V. 9)
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$121.00
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 600
EAN: 9780130763686
ISBN: 0130763683
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 2002-01
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Studio: Prentice Hall
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This one-semester textbook introduces techniques for circuit analysis, the natural and step response of RL and RC circuits, sinusoidal steady state analysis, and the Laplace transform. The supplementary workbook presents example calculations in Orcad PSpice release 9.2 in the same order as the text. The CD-ROM contains Orcad Lite 9.2. Annotation c.
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Summary: Really bad!
Comment: This text book is absolutely horrible. I'm a third-year Mech Eng student. I've taken plenty of classes on hard subjects, so I know when a text book just plain sucks. This book does a pathetic job of explaining examples and basic concepts. I've spent hours trying to figure out assumptions that they should have just mentioned in the first place. And the poorly explained examples don't prepare you for the actual chapter problems. Because of the "wordy" writing style of the authors, basic concepts sound more complicated than they actually are; getting through the reading is a slow and tedious process.
The book is utterly sterile. The only colors you'll see inside it are black and a little blue; there isn't even a picture of an actual circuit in this book. It's like it's writen for a machine.
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Summary: Poor example. The homework problems like hell
Comment: The examples which were given in the textbook were way too simple when you compare to the homework problems. Never explain how to do bode plot at all. I am glad I know how to do differential equations before taking the class, otherwise, to use the method that taught by this book, I would be dead. They never explain well on those differential equations and the concept behind.
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Summary: Don't waste your time
Comment: I'm a second year EE engineering student with 20 years of electronics background in repairing, circuit analysis, and troubleshooting. This book is absolutly worthless. The auther jumps to great leaps of understanding with littel or no background to show the student how they got to those conclusions. The examples are non excistant. They use "conventional current" which is really backward to reality. It used to be called "hole theory" back in the day. Go with Boylstead or somone who has a clue about teaching. If your a beginning electronics student, forget this book, you'll be lost by the 1st chapter. There are countless problems too lengthy to go into detail here. If your school is using it, spend the extra money and get somthing to actually learn from, just to pass the course.
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Summary: Give me a break.
Comment: If anyone tells you this is a good book, then they are receiving bribes from Prentice Hall. The only possible explanation I can think of that would explain the use of this book, is if the class is intended to 'weed out' 90 percent of the students. This is by far the most terrible excuse for a textbook I have ever seen. It teaches the most basic concepts of circuits, but yet it practically assumes you already know them, because it doesn't bother to work any examples out. If these authors were teaching nuclear physics, they would give you an intimidating equation, hand you a chunk of uranium, and expect you to build a power plant without hurting yourself. I have found countless typos (I might mention that I own the 6th edition), several problems that even my professor claims are incorrect, and most of all, I cannot follow the logic presented whatsoever. I have taken many classes that were extremely difficult, and for the most part, I have done well. However, this book presents material that is trivial in comparison, but the book goes right over my head. Only after the professor 'decodes' the text can I understand what the authors intended to say. I will also add that I took 4 semesters of calculus through a distance learning class where I had no instructor at all and got As in all of those classes. I am perfectly capable of understanding a well written book. This book is truly so poor, I would be impressed if Einstein himself didn't scratch his eyebrows off after reading it.Please, for the love of all things sacred, complain to everyone you know about this textbook so it can disappear from the shelves of University bookstores.
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Summary: Review of Introductory Circuits for Electrical and Computer
Comment: I'm sorry to say this but this book is absolutely horrible. This is my third year in college and this has to be the worst text book I've ever had. The text is not very informative and the examples are unclear. The book doesn't go into detail on most of the basic material. This is NOT a good book for an introductory level circuit analysis course.
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