Customer Reviews

Engineering Circuit Analysis

5 star:		(13)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

Good book, tough problems.

The chapters themselves are very well written and provide good example problems to help illustrate the various techniques. The problem that I have with this book is the difficulty level of the excersises in the back of each chapter. They are, I think, a bit too challenging for the typical student.

Don't get me wrong: of course there should be some difficult problems to challenge us. But there should also be some easy ones along with a few of middling difficulty. This book, though, pretty much slams you with some very tricky stuff right away.

I highly recommend using one of the Schaum's outlines (Basic Circuit Analysis) to supplement this book. They seem to provide a more gradual approach to learning the material--giving you tons of practice problems to drive the point home.

Overall, a good book. But maybe a few "confidence builders" to start each problem set would improve things a bit.

This is not an easy book, and may stump those trying to use it
for self-study. Having said this, and with the proviso that you're
going to need some calculus, this could be the book for you.
This book contains the kind of information that the EE knows
and the ASET, and possibly the BSET, don't. This book can't
be read for pleasure. It requires careful and thorough study,
and working the exercises to test your understanding. But, if
you put forth the effort, you will be richly rewarded.

clear explanation with large amount of in-depth exercises, and most importantly, it made me get a good grade in my introductory EE course. A must-buy for CompE/EE major.

This is an excellent Circuit Analysis textbook!

My copy was obtained in 1976, so refers to the Second Edition, for a course that I was taking the next semester as an undergraduate. Because that same semester I was taking Systems Analysis, which had Circuit Analysis as a prerequisite and my daring academic advisor at OSU, the late Dr. Bennett Basore, who signed me up for 19 hours my first semester, warned me that I might have trouble taking those two courses together. My solution was to allocate two or three days over Christmas break to studying this text to make sure that I had its principles down.

Naturally, like any good student, I skipped the Preface, which warns, "An amused smile on the face of a student is seldom an obstacle to his absorbing information." Imagine my surprise at page 11 when we find a first-hand observer counting electrons, up to a Coulomb, with the footnote that he "is a small, *quick* student"! I still laugh when I read that part, now open in front of me.

This is one of the most pleasant, easy-to-read and informative textbooks that I own. My custom is to annotate the errors on the rear flyleaf of the book. This book should get an award for accuracy. The first error that I found is on page 320 and is a typesetting error on an underscore that most people would overlook! (Most texts have serious errors every 20 or 30 pages.)

In the few days that I had, I read the first several chapters and did all the drill problems and most of the problems at the end of the first chapters. This is a very self-explanatory text to those who did well in Algebra and Linear Algebra. Later chapters use a little Calculus. I had a fun and easy time doing enough that I covered all the homework that we had during the first six or eight weeks of the semester! (Although the Teaching Assistant would ask me why I turned in extra problems!)

In my edition, only the drill problems have answers. The chapter problems have no answers at all, but I understand that the teacher's edition has answers. This was never a problem, since the text tells in an entertaining and informative manner how to work the problems. If it were not so, I'm sure the problem would have been moved to a different spot in the book!

I've spent over 30 years in Electrical Engineering and along the way obtained a Ph.D. in the subject. This textbook has served me very well many times along the way and I'd like to thank the authors for doing such a good job of writing it!

Engineering Circuit Analysis

The book is very poor as far as learning is concerned. It only states vague generalities, expecting the reader to follow through to specifics by intuition. I have learned nothing through using this book, and would recommend it to no one.

The book contains left out diagrams, and incorrectly solved homework problems for starters. Also, the book has no solutions to the odd worked problems. Furthermore, the authors tend to give simple examples in the text and then give extremely difficult homework problems at the end of the chapter. Lastly, the book has a very bad and vague explanation for passive sign convention that will leave you suffering for the duration of the text.

If you don't have a good instructor that is willing to fill in the gaps that this book leaves, then chances are you will do poorly in your first circuits class.

This book is THE Classic textbook for Engineering Circuit Analysis - stress on the word ENGINEERING. Unlike basket weaving or truck driving, electrical engineering requires deep thought, hard work, and a good attitude. And of course, intelligence. If you are looking for a cakewalk type of book, go buy some book of little substance written by a technician and you can fluff your way through your "class". This is a book used for a type of class that weeds out the fakers; separates the MEN from the boys. The bad reviews on this book make me laugh! The examples in this book are of an essential nature. Don't let them fool you, this is the best book ou there!

This is nice book on Circuit Analysis. The presentation of concepts is really good. The authors make the extra effort to explain the various techniques too, which I think is really invaluable to the beginners in the field.

The text also covers OpAmps, Bode Plots, and more. I do think this is one book that every Electrical Engineering student should have on his shelf.

This is the best book on linear circuit analysis. It teaches upto the advanced level. Writer has a wonderful style of presentating a topic.

Chapters include:

1-CIRCUIT ANALYSIS AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.
2-BASIC COMPONENTS AND ELECTRIC CIRCUITS.
3-VOLTAGE AND CURRENT LAWS.
4-BASIC NODAL AND MESH ANALYSIS.
5-USEFUL CIRCUIT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES.
6-THE OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER.
7-CAPACITORS AND INDUCTORS.
8-BASIC RL AND RC CIRCUITS.
9-THE RLC CIRCUIT.
10-SINUSOIDAL STEADY-STATE ANALYSIS.
11-AC POWER CIRCUIT ANALYSIS.
12-POLYPHASE CIRCUITS.
13-MAGNETICALLY COUPLED CIRCUITS.
14-COMPLEX FREQUENCY AND THE LAPLACE TRANSFORM.
15-CIRCUIT ANALYSIS IN THE s-DOMAIN.
16-FREQUENCY RESPONSE.
17-TWO-PORT NETWORKS.
18-FOURIER CIRCUIT ANALYSIS.
19-STATE-VARIABLE ANALYSIS(WEB ONLY).
+ USEFUL APPENDICES

The book is well structured. There are a number of helpful solved examples. Every section ends at atleast one example. There are also practice questions at the end of each section(if possible). Author has put challenging problems at the end of each chapter. The book is written in a technical way.

The book is full of knowledge.

I strongly recommend this book to those who are interested in this subject.

The reason of giving 4 stars is that if you are new to circuit analysis then you may have some trouble understanding the fundamentals. Moreover, if you are weak in Calculus(esp. Differential calculus), you may find yourself under hot water. But as I have already taken a course on advanced calculus(the book does not require it - atleast you should know a little about differential calculus), I like this book.

For the above reasons I suggest you buy "Introductory Circuit Analysis" by "Robert L. Boylestad". This is a very very nice work by Mr. Boylestad. After reading Boylestad's book one should go for Hayt's "Engineering Circuit Analysis" for the sake of completeness.

Hayt explained the concepts using mathematical proofs while Boylestad explained mostly by physical analysis of elements.

This book is exceptional for the fact that the publisher sells a student solutions manual that has a large set of sample problems completely solved/worked out, all comparable to the problems in the back of the book.