Linear Circuit Analysis: Time Domain, Phasor, and Laplace Transform Approaches (Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering) [Hardcover]

Raymond A. DeCarlo (Author), Pen-Min Lin (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0195136667 | ISBN-13: 978-0195136661 | Publication Date: February 22, 2001 | Edition: 2

Designed for an introductory electric circuits course, the second edition of Linear Circuit Analysis provides authoritative and in-depth yet highly accessible coverage of traditional linear circuit analysis topics--both concepts and computation.

This second edition represents an exhaustive revision, featuring:


· Complete integration and extensive use of MATLAB� in solving problems and examples


· Frequent use of SPICE, especially with op amp circuits


· Twenty percent more examples and numerous additional illustrations


· Approximately three times as many exercises immediately following the examples


· More than 1000 end-of-chapter problems (approximately 25% more than the first edition, categorized and graded from the simpler to the more complex; this edition includes many new basic problems)


· Excellent pedagogical elements including case studies, motivational real-world illustrations, and key terms and concepts

A CD in each book! The CD contains:


· Complete Solutions for Students to 10% of the Homework Exercises. These solutions have been solved step-by-step by the authors and are installed on the disk in an Adobe Acrobat� file.


· Additional MATLAB� Problems. Designed to challenge students and extend their understanding of software tools, these complex MATLAB problems are contained on the CD in an Adobe Acrobat file. Solutions are available at www.decarlolin.org under "MATLAB Solutions."


· Laboratory Manual. A 214-page laboratory manual is resident on the in-text CD in Adobe Acrobat. It includes course objectives, course requirements, laboratory safety instructions, fifteen experiments, and nine useful appendices.


· A FREE Copy of the Multisim� 2001 Textbook Edition (SPICE Simulator). This powerful simulation software contains a fully functional version of Multisim� 2001 and includes a 1500 component database, 6 virtual instruments, 6 analyses, the Simplified Version Interface, and Save and Print capabilities. It creates and saves new circuits and will read and simulate any circuit created in the Multisim� 2001 Education or Student Editions.

An extensive instructor's package--available free to adopters--includes:


· Solutions Manual CD to Accompany Linear Circuit Analysis (0-19-514218-7) with complete detailed solutions to all the end-of-chapter problems. For more information, call your Oxford sales representative at 1-800-280-0280.


· Microsoft PowerPoint� Overheads to Accompany Linear Circuit Analysis (0-19-514724-3) includes over 350 figures and captions from the book, enlarged and enhanced for classroom presentation. Contact your Oxford sales representative at 1-800-280-0280 to order this CD-ROM and hundreds of additional PowerPoint overheads from other Oxford texts.


· A website, www.decarlolin.org, with additional instructor resources, web links, enhancement materials, and errata.

To extend the introduction to selected topics or provide additional practice we recommend the following additional items:
Allan's Circuits Problems by Allan Kraus (0-19-514248-9) includes over 400 circuit analysis problems with complete solutions.
SPICE, Second Edition by Gordon Roberts and Adel Sedra (0-19-510842-6) features over 100 examples and numerous exercises for computer-aided analysis of microelectronic circuits.
Getting Started with MATLAB� by Rudra Pratap (0-19-512947-4) provides a quick introduction to using this powerful software.
Getting Started with MATLAB� (Version 6) by Rudra Pratap (0-19-515014-7)

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Using a more modern format -- without sacrificing rigor -- this text features in-depth coverage of traditional linear circuit analysis topics -- both concepts and computation -- including use of available software for problem solution where necessary. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

An innovative approach to introductory circuit analysis by two very experienced teachers and researchers. The book features motivational real-world examples, optional material for potential innovation, and an in-depth highly accessible presentation. The material is available in three formats. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1024 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition (February 22, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195136667
• ISBN-13: 978-0195136661
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.4 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #764,705 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Is this book being bombed?, August 3, 2006

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J. A. Soares "JAS" (Lisboa, Portugal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Linear Circuit Analysis: Time Domain, Phasor, and Laplace Transform Approaches (Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering) (Hardcover)

Its a pity that a few (or the same?) undergrad studends, unhappy (?) with the recommended text for their circuit analysis course (or unhappy with their teacher?), which, by sure, have never seen many more texts on the subject, and possibly don't grasp a lot of the relevant matters, feel confident to (under)rate this book as they do.

The authors of this book have a place in the history of circuit analysis: P.-M. Lin has written, jointly with Leon Chua, "Computer-Aided Analysis of Electronic Circuits: Algorithms and Computational Techniques" which is often coined as the "Kama-Sutra of circuit simulation"; R. DeCarlo has written "Linear Systems: a State Variabe Approach with Numerical Implementation". I own copies of both books and they are worth every cent they costed me.

The above note doesn't end the accomplishments of the authors: for instance, they are highly regarded researchers in the analog fault diagnosis area, and P.-M. Lin has done important work on Symbolic Network Analysis.

Of course, the reputation of the authors doesn't make a good book. But "Linear Circuits...", from DeCarlo and Lin is a very good book. When one of the reviewers of this book says "It took the entire chapter of THIRTY FIVE pages to explain simple relations between voltage, current, and resistance" it omits that, in the same chapter, are introduced the effective or RMS value of a periodic signal, the four linear dependent (controlled) sources, the notion of lumped element, of memoryless element, etc... It suffices to say that in page 35 there is a list of terms and concepts discussed in chapter 1 with about 40 entries.

The authors also touch the 'nonlinear world' where they can: saturation in OPAMPS (Ch. 4), comparators with OPAMPS, nonlinear battery charge model (ch. 2), diode rectifiers (ch. 22).

They present Modified Nodal Analysis, the 'universal' circuit analysis method used by almost all circuit simulators, although in a starred section (which I wouldn't have done). This is not common in textbooks.

There are many practical examples: the DAC with R-2R ladder in ch. 4, the diode rectifier in ch. 22 and chapter 21 on basic filtering, for instance.

And I, an old monkey, even have learned something: for instance, I have never used the modified superposition analysis presented in ch. 5.

The bridge between circuit models and the underlying physics (electromagnetics) is done in several places (e.g. when inductors are discussed), what promotes the intelectual development of the students by cross-coupling models at two levels of detail.

The matters lacking in this book are mostly related with nonlinear circuit analysis (at least with quiescent point and incremental/small-signal analysis) but current circuit texts suffer from this illness (I miss the now out-of-print text from Chua/Desoer/Kuh, "Linear and Nonlinear Circuits"...). The fact that nonlinear circuits are 'overlooked' creates the awkward idea that "nonlinear circuits=electronics" (its in the basic electronics courses that nonlinearity is suddenly presented), and prevents the students of ever seeing a sistematic (basic) treatment of nonlinear circuits and devices. It also creates the idea that standard electronic circuits are a kind of 'miracles' and their analysis is done with magic tricks.

A well chosen bibliography would be welcome in the text.

Enough said. Overall, this is my preferred circuit analysis textbook in print. It goes beyond 'circuits as cultural animation', presents a good blend of practical and theoretical issues and well chosen examples. It clearly is not suitable for unmotivated and 'weak' students, as the matters are not presented as recipes or in a 'canned' manner.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Less then adequate, March 9, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Linear Circuit Analysis: Time Domain, Phasor, and Laplace Transform Approaches (Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering) (Hardcover)

I have used this book for the last 2 semesters, and I have to say, this is one of the worst books for explaining the topics. DeCarlo himself, whom I have for a professor, doesn't even use half of the problems in the book, and the only reason I know anything is from the class, I would recommend not buying this to learn circuts on your own since it does not do that.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Full of errors in examples/solution guide,confusing text, May 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Linear Circuit Analysis: Time Domain, Phasor, and Laplace Transform Approaches (Hardcover)

The examples in the book were heavy with errors, the same for the instructors solution guide. the text spreads the essential information throughout the authors prose, without a thought as to how the student is going to extract same when the time comes to work out the assigned problems. The absence of any solutions in the back of the text essentially prevents any motivated student from working out problems on his or her own. The net effect is to give a student tne impression that the correct techniques do not work.