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Title: Electric Circuits Revised and PSpice Supplement Package, Sixth Edition by James W. Nilsson, Susan Riedel ISBN: 0-13-077079-5 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 27 December, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $116.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.19 (42 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not bad - but there are better texts
Comment: I used the 5th edition of Nilsson and Riedel for my 2nd year circuits course (and a year 3 systems course) at Auckland University a few years back. The 6th edition, as far as I know, look pretty much the same as the 5th so my comments tend to apply to the current edition as well.
The book was not too bad but the explainations were sometimes too brief and a section on series and parallel resonance should be reintroduced (this is vital to understand 3rd year electronics and 4th year communications sys and RF electronics courses). Often it required much-more-than-necessary efforts to fully understand and tackle the problems at the end of many chapters (unless you come up with an excellent lecturer who had comprehensive course notes and you can forget about the text. We had such a lecturer for transient analysis, but we were forced to rely exclusively on the text for three-phase circuits and resonance).
A better alternative would be Linear Circuit Analysis by Davis (The school opted to this text instead of Nilsson for same Circuit course in 1999, but has since changed back to Nilsson)
Rating: 1
Summary: Prepare yourself for a lot of work
Comment: I am using this text right now in a circuit analysis course, and I believe the text is actually making the course harder than it needs to be. I have a number of years experience in electronics and have taken circuit analysis in the past (far past). This book, while doing a fair job on the basic explanation of the principals, uses trivial examples for illustration, then leaves you to figure out the more complex drill and homework problems with absolutely no help whatsoever. In addition, the authors and Prentice apparently think that a student solutions manual would hinder the education experience, so their solution set is illustrated only in the instructor's manual, which is unavailable to students. Consequently, you have no idea whether you have worked the problems correctly unless the instructor corrects them, or provides access to the solution manual somehow. If I'm working problems at 2 am, running to the library or the department office is not an option. The authors should redo this book completely and make it useful to students, rather than relying on the good graces of the teachers who use it. In the meantime, be prepared to do a lot of outside research to help you with the examples. Unless you have to have it for a class, send Prentice a message and buy a different book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Absolutely Horrible
Comment: I used this book for my introductory circuits class three years ago and, upon reflection, it was one of the worst books I was forced to buy in 4 years of engineering. The examples are too trivial to help with the problems, which are too hard because the explanations are horrible. My teacher wasn't much better at explaining the material, making this the worst class I have ever taken. But after taking more advanced circuits classes, I find them to be less appalling.
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Title: Introduction to PSpice for Electric Circuits (6th Edition) by James W. Nilsson, Susan A. Riedel, James W Nilsson, Susan A Riedel ISBN: 0130094706 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 21 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.80 |
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Title: Solid State Electronic Devices (5th Edition) by Ben Streetman, Sanjay Banerjee ISBN: 0130255386 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 08 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $118.00 |
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Title: Microelectronic Circuits (Oxford Series in Electrical Engineering) by Adel S. Sedra, Kenneth C. Smith ISBN: 0195116631 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $112.00 |
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Title: Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics 2001 Media Edition (With CD-ROM) by Fawwaz Ulaby ISBN: 0130329312 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 31 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $116.00 |
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Title: Digital Design: Principles and Practices and Xilinx 4.2i Student Package (3rd Edition) by John F. Wakerly ISBN: 0131760599 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 19 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $117.00 |
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