Customer Reviews

Electric Machinery and Transformers

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This review applies to the 2nd edition.

I'm not an electrical engineer; I bought this book to get a better understanding of how electromagnetic equipment operates. The book is very approachable in that it does not utilize advanced mathematics (understanding basic algebra, trig, and some calculus is sufficient to understand most of the book). A reader with a good understanding of electricity (including impedance in AC circuits) and magnetism can learn quite a bit about motors, generators, and transformers from this book. Don't know how a professional engineer/educator would rate this book. If your main goal is better understandng of these types of devices, I'd highly recommend this book in used form - new is very expensive.

There are NO answers to any of the exercises. Not at the back of the book, no solution manual exists, not on cramster. In my opinion, that makes it almost useless, as there's no way to know if you're doing the work correctly.

This book is terrible. The writing is rather poor, making it difficult to understand. Additionally, not every equation is derived for you and as a result the summary will sometimes contain equations that were never derived. There are also relatively few examples, and they often skip steps. Finally, there is no solutions manual to this book readily available, making it utterly impossible to know if you're doing them right, much less check your answer.

I was taking a summer course for electrical engineering.So professor recomended this book.But he only checked the answers from the book.The book doesn't have detailed solutions.The book assumes that you have excellent calculus skills.So if you're very good in calculus you don't have any problem.But if you're rusty like me this book isn't for you.
I hope this helps.God Bless U.S.A.