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Electric Circuits (8th Edition) | 
 enlarge | Authors: James W. Nilsson, Susan Riedel
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
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Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 65877
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 8
Pages: 880
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 8.6 x 1.4
ISBN: 0131989251
Dewey Decimal Number: 621
EAN: 9780131989252
Publication Date: May 11, 2007
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Product Description
Electric Circuits, Eighth Edition features a new design,a four-color format, and 80% of chapter problems have been updated. In the midst of these changes, the book retains the goals that have made it a best-seller: 1) To build an understanding of concepts and ideas explicitly in terms of previous learning; 2) To emphasize the relationship between conceptual understanding and problem solving approaches; 3) To provide readers with a strong foundation of engineering practices. Chapter topics include Circuit Variables; Circuit Elements; Simple Resistive Circuits; Techniques of Circuit Analysis; The Operational Amplifier; Inductors, Capacitors, and Mutual Inductance; Response of First-Order RL and RC Circuits; Natural and Step Responses of RLC Circuits; Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis; and more. For anyone interested in circuit analysis.
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 This is a review of the 7th edition September 27, 2006
Craig Matteson (Ann Arbor, MI)
18 out of 24 found this review helpful
This is a review of the SEVENTH edition of "Electric Circuits" by Nilsson & Riedel. Amazon generally keeps reviews of previous editions combined with later editions and that can be quite confusing. For example, many of these reviews make a complaint that the book has no answers in the back. That may have been true in their edition, but for this, simply turn to Appendix G page 939 and many answers are provided for selected problems. The authors state that all text and problems in this edition have been triple checked for accuracy.
The student should come to this book with some familiarity with integral and differential calculus and an elementary course in physics. That will carry you through the first twelve chapters. For the last six chapters you will also need to have some facility with differential equations.
I found the book to be clearly written and the quantity of problems provided to be quite useful and helpful. It is by working with the material being learned that one gains facility and it sticks in the memory more permanently. Each chapter is laid out clearly with boxes of extra material as well as Assessing Objectives that help the student know if they have command of the principles being discussed. There is also a chapter summary and a series of problems. The book provides something like 1,000 problems for the student. Good illustrations, diagrams, and pictures to illustrate the text.
The book also comes with a limited student version of a commercial circuit design software package called PSpice using ORCAD 9.2. The manual says that the software is more menu driven and requires less programming than previous versions.
This is a very solid resource for students to use in coursework or for someone to work through on their own.
The very best of them all!! April 19, 2003
Omar Castillo Ortiz (Hacienda Heights, CA)
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
Upon looking at the reviews for this excellent book. I was so staggered that people have given it low marks. I really think this is the best introduction to electrical engineering available anywhere. There's lots of problems in the book and the material is presented in a very good manner. I should know since I personally read this book from cover to cover with little difficulty thanks to the wonderfully laid out information and diagrams and the explanations by mr wilsson and mrs riedel. The book starts with the basics of electricity and electric current and takes you through network theorems and introduces resistors, capacitors and inductors. It then takes you through kirchoff's laws, phasors, complex analysis, frequency analysis, laplace transforms, transformers, fourier series and fourier transforms. There is a lot of info in this book. This is the book that taught me electric network analysis. I highly recommend this book.
Great Book for EE's May 17, 2007
Christopher A. Belcastro (Glen Allen, VA USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have many circuit textbooks and references but this is by far my favorite one. I just finished a semester of AC circuits using Dorf and Svoboda's "Intro to Circuits" textbook and it was really bad compared to this one. Granite, this book has a lot more info on two port networks and AC systems than the Dorf book, but that isn't a good enough excuse. The chapters are a fairly interesting read, and there are plenty of example problems. The material can be a bit challenging, but that's what makes it fun. I would definitely recommend for any and all electrical engineer's!
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The Best Electric Circuits book on this PLANET May 15, 2002
Jong (IL)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have seen most of you guys' complaints about the book and I would agree. Except, I have the complete instructors solutions manuals to the 5th edition Electric Circuits book by James W. Nilsson and Susan A. Riedel. Actually there are 2 solutions manuals to this book. If you want the worked out solutions leave your e-mail address on your own review on here and prehaps I will contact you.
Really good book September 22, 2005
Bharathwaj Muthuswamy (Berkeley, CA, United States)
4 out of 18 found this review helpful
I use this book in introductory circuits classes, both for non-electrical engineers and electrical engineers.
First and foremost, the review from the student is important. Most of the reviews about this book from students have been very positive. The only problem was the lack of answers to most of the end of chapter exercises. However, instead of encouraging whining from the students, I told them to make sanity checks for their answers and also check numerical accuracy using simulation tools (like PSPICE and MATLAB).
Personally, I feel the lack of answers is a good thing because the real-world isn't do-a-problem and then check your answer. The lack of answers forces the students to use other (hopefully fair) methods to check their work. True, they are just starting to learn circuits. But, the more you make learning closer to the real-world, the better!
As for the simplicity of the examples: The students felt it was fine and if they had questions, they clarified it with me or the teaching assistants for the class.
Bharath
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