Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis Student Problem Supplement

by J. David Irwin

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0023598840
• ISBN13: 9780023598845
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 97 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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Thanks for getting this book to my son as soon as you did. It saved us $40. It's a book he'll keep on using

Excelent for anyone studying the basics of circuit analysis

Like the title itself says, this is an introductory book on Circuit Analysis. In the first year of my engineering graduation, I used this book for the subject of Basic Circuit Analysis and found it to be extremely helpful. I think I can even say that this book made my life a lot easier, since the author - J. David Irwin - did a very good job on explaining concepts and circuit analysis basic methods and laws very clearly.The book is very well structred, objective and and the subjects are easily understandable for the reader with little or none electronic circuit knowledge: every chapter starts with an introduction and a list of helpful topics which the author named "Learning Goals"; then, everytime a new concept/law/method is introduced, the author tests the reader to see if he did comprehend what has been explained to him by presenting him with very basic exercices, "Learning by Doing"; the author also provides the reader with "Learning Hints" on a regular basis, which can be interpreted as algorithms to solve certain problems or simple hints for the reader to do the exercice correctly, avoiding typical mistakes; at last, when a resonable amount of concepts have been introduced, the book features many "Learing Examples" with resolutions (note that resolutions can be of an extreme importance when the reader cannot understand how a certain problem is solved).«Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis» covers everything that a book of this kind (introductory book) should cover, and even more, all in a clear way: basic concepts (quantities and electrical elements), resistive circuits (where the ohm and kirchhoff's laws are introduced), circuit analysis techniques (nodal and loop analysis), equivalent circuits (superposition, thévenin and norton's theorems), capacitance and inductance, first and second-order transcient circuits, AC steady-state analysis, magnetically coupled networks, steady-state power analysis, polyphase circuits, variable frequency network performance, the laplace and fourier tranforms (and applications to circuit analysis - e.g. bode diagrams), two-part networks and basic semiconductor circuits (diodes and transistors).In my opinion, this is an excelent book for everyone who wants to study the basics of electrical circuit analysis. I highly recommend it for that purpose.

Very Nicely Put Together

I feel like this book was very nicely put together. Those who believe otherwise are just slackers that have been given everything they needed in high school. This book is a GREAT book for a electrical engineering major, but just having this book will not make you more intelligent, you will need to take the time to read it to understand what's going on.

It is one of the books that enjoyed teaching it.

The fifth edition is moor complit than the pravious editions. I have thougt this book and the preavious editions for ten years and I never get tierd of it. I have translated the 5th edition to persion language. The autor has done a nice job.

Clear and concise

The topics are taught well with the perfect amount of information to grasp the concepts. This is an introductory level text, and to that end the material is not flooded with higher level information. As a student, I was able to easily understand the topics and create a solid foundation for a more complex look.