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Summary: Mostly useless to any EE
Comment: The style is pretty basic and bland. It provides not a whole lot of material. It could probably be condensed to a smaller text if it were more concise and instructive
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Comment: Not for the COLLEGE level student, nor the "soon to drop out" university student. Very good calculus based introduction to circuits and devices. If you are looking for a algebraic introduction to circuits and devices, I suggest Electronics Fundamentals: Circuits, Devices, and Applications
by Thomas L. Floyd
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Summary: Great Introductory Textbook for Electrical Engineering
Comment: Of the many introductory EE textbooks that I have seen, Cogdell's book stands out because it covers the basics and isn't limited to just electronics, covering the full gamut of electrical engineering from transformers and motors to digital logic. Has great practical examples: jump-starting a car's dead battery, how much voltage is output from an audio amplifier driving 25W into a speaker, etc.Covers: Kirchhoff's Laws (KVL and KCL), Thevenin and Norton Equilavant circuits, R-L-C circuits, filters, transformers and autotransformers, 3-phase AC power lines, electrical safety, Op-amps, BJT and FET transitors, basic digital logic design, electrical motors, some linear system, RF, and communications.
Buy Cogdell and Sedra&Smith and Horowitz and you will have a complete fundamentals of electronics library.
