The Analysis and Design of Linear Circuits, Fourth Edition

By Albert J. Rosa and Roland E. Thomas

Book Overview

Now revised with a stronger emphasis on applications and more problems, this new Fourth Edition gives readers the opportunity to analyze, design, and evaluate linear circuits right from the start. The book's abundance of design examples, problems, and applications, promote creative skills and show how to choose the best design from several competing solutions. * Laplace first. The text's early introduction to Laplace transforms saves time spent on transitional circuit analysis techniques that will be superseded later on. Laplace transforms are used to explain all of the important dynamic circuit concepts, such as zero state and zero-input responses, impulse and step responses, convolution, frequency response, and Bode plots, and analog filter design. This approach provides students with a solid foundation for follow-up courses.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471432997
• ISBN13: 9780471432999
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 848 Pages
• Weight: 3.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Best introduction book to electronics

This book is without doubt the best book introduction to the analysis of electrical circuits. It goes through all the different topics you would expect, node voltage, mesh circuits, intro to capacitors, inductors, RC circuits. Stuff like that. It has also one of the best explanations I have ever seen on the Laplace Transform. After reading that chapter you can see how great of a tool the Laplace Transform is. This is...

Fantastic practical introduction with emphasis on calculations

Chapter 1 introduces basic concepts in electricity such as charge, voltage, current, resistance and Ohms law. Chapter 2 then delves into basic DC circuit analysis of series and parallel circuits using KVL and KCL and the concepts of source transformation and circuit reduction. Chapter 3 gives you more techniques to solve for difficult circuit analysis problems based on node and mesh analysis. Thevenin and Norton equivalent...

Absolutely the best intro to electrical engineering textbook

This is the textbook for the first course in electrical engineering (DC, AC circuit analysis.. with Resistors, Capacitors and Inductors).It explains everything so well, and the good think is... u don't have to keep correcting the mistakes in the textbook with ur pen (like most other textbooks). There are no mistakes. Everything is professional... it's a textbook u can cherish and keep on the shelf. (Most Circuit textbooks...

Right for me!

I am doing a course in Circuit Analysis so I bought this book to supplement my course notes(got this book for about 2 months now.). The book really helped me by giving me clear explainations of concepts and details that were not emphasized by my lecturers. The prose used in the book is very formal unlike my course notes(,which gives everything in point form). There are no jokes or small stories on the margin of the pages(it...

excellent book

I first learned about circuit analysis about 10 years ago though one course at college. This book was great for refreshing my memory and helping to finally see the simplicity in Op-Amps. I recommend this book for non-electrical engineers who have jobs that require some electrical engineering.