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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Duke University Engineering Student gets robbed....,
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This review is from: Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering (Hardcover)
Have pity on me..... I did not read the reviews on this book before I bought it because I thought "Hey, this is the book that Duke University says that I need. I'll just order it through an Amazon reseller and save money." Point, click. Point click. Little did I know that the publisher changed to the "REVISED Fourth Edition" right before the semester started, and for good reason. This book's errors are too numerous to have been an accident. Someone must have used a random number generator for the answers in the back of the book. An alternating logic switch must have been used on the sample problems ("For every 3rd sample problem, we'll change the sign of the leading term to keep them guessing....." or something along those lines). I hate the fact that I had to shell out another $120 to get the REVISED Fourth Edition and that I now have this expensive doorstop sitting here, but I just cannot sell this dead tree bark to anyone and live with myself, afterwards. I hope some heads rolled at McGraw Hill for publishing this .... Anyway, the moral of the story is: READ THE REVIEWS! WE ARE TRYING TO WARN YOU, ....!
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Worst textbook ever written. Period.,
This review is from: Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering (Hardcover)
I'm not sure who is supposed to benefit from the use of this textbook. I am a 4.0 student at a leading university. I bust my butt and work hard to understand material and ask questions of professors, research on the web, and spend as many hours outside class as needed in order to understand the material introduced by the textbooks used in my courses.
This book is, without a doubt, the least helpful, most error-ridden, topic brushing, irrelevent-example-giving, important-step-skipping book I have EVER had the misfortune to use. If you have a professor who uses this book for their course, DON'T TAKE THAT CLASS. Find another school or professor or major. Really. Over the course of this past semester, for every hour I've spent reading this textbook I estimate that I've had to spend three hours researching the web or referencing other EE books. I am NOT KIDDING. From the simplest, most basic concepts (KCL, KVL and how to set up node and mesh equations using the "passive element" convention) to the most modest 2nd order circuits (frequency response of an RLC bandpass circuit), this book cannot seem to explain ANYTHING clearly, completely, and without glossing over concepts that may be *gasp* NEW to students whose major is NOT EE! There isn't a single topic covered by this book that I haven't had to do further research on in order to fully grasp. Unbelievable. If this review seems to be negative or overly critical, that's exactly how it's intended. Maybe others can get a sense of the frustration they'll experience while trying to learn from this book. With any luck, they'll be able to avoid the book, the frustration, and the (literally) dozens of nonproductive hours of ancillary research required because the author of seems to be so out of touch with the needs of his intended audience.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Way too many errors,
By A Customer
This review is from: Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering (Hardcover)
a few errors is understandable but this is just sorry... not only are answers in the back of the book wrong but there are errors within example problems too and errors to the answers of those example problems. we have to waste about 10 mins every class period to make corrections to the book. plus you never know if you are doing something correctly cause there is nothing to check your work with.
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