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Title: Signal Processing and Linear Systems by B. P. Lathi ISBN: 0-19-521917-1 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $110.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Undergraduate Signals and Systems Textbook
Comment: This is truly a superior book for teaching Signals and Systems. It far outpaces the competition in my mind, especially in terms of conceptual descriptions, examples, and readability. It was the only text (I have looked at the most popular 6) that I found that is written in a coherent and readable manner, such that it could serve as a standalone self-paced tutorial.
I am teaching this course for the first time this fall and found almost every one of my student's (and mine) conceptual and mathematical questions answered clearly by this text. I naively adopted Oppenheim since it is a classic, but that text truly pales in comparison.
Examples of things I appreciate in Lathi:
1) It serves as an excellent reference book, with a background mathematics section, tables of transforms and properties.
2) It generally starts each subject at the right point (e.g., with the trigonometic Fourier Series) to give student better conceptual understanding. I doesn't skip the basics.
3) It answers many common conceptual questions like "What is the meaning of negative frequencies in the FT?", "What do complex numbers mean physically?"
4) I love the history and wit (Is it a sin to make a textbook readable and even enjoyable?)
5) A lot of references to real engineering applications. For example, a REAL chapter on DIGITAL FILTER DESIGN.
I could go on, but it is obvious that the author put a great deal of care into this text and even the solutions CD. This, for upper-level undergraduate texts, in my opinion, is truly rare (see however, "Griffiths" and "Zahn" for E&M)
NOTE: By the way, for a previous reviewer, Ms. Chaston, in my text, the appendices are located on pages 161, 222, 356, 457, and 609.
Finally, I must admit that my own stupid prejudice cost me from adopting this textbook this year. I thought to myself, can a book written by a man with the name "Bhagawandas Pannalal" truly write this eloquently in English? As I get more in depth into the book, the answer is clearly YES and more.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Book with Only a Few Flaws
Comment: The book is well written in a style that most undergraduates should like. The book is required reading in my undergraduate courses on discrete-time signals and systems. I like the book. It has only a few flaws that I outline below.
1.Section 5.1-4 titled
"Dual of the Time-Sampling: The Spectral Sampling Theorem"
contains a serious technical error. To obtain the Spectral Interpolation formula (5.14) page 337, you need to require that the signal f(t) is zero for ABSOLUTE t greater than or equal to tau, NOT just t greater than or equal to tau (as Lathi states). This SERIOUS error causes considerable confusion in Section 5.2.
2.After covering the classical low-pass sampling theorem, a study of discrete time signals should progress to the discrete- time Fourier transform (DTFT) BEFORE discussing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) or fast-Fourier transform (FFT). After discussing the sampling theorem, Lathi covers the DFT and FFT, and puts off the DTFT until much later. Basically, he has the coverage of these topics out of order, in my opinion.
Generally, the book is easy to read and understand. Undergraduate students should like the text.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Job
Comment: I'm a electrical engeniering student and i took this book for self study in a course of signals and systems. This is a very wwell writing book and is strongly recommended. There are a lot of example and the entireconcept is well explain.
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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: 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: Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics, 2004 Media Edition by Fawwaz T. Ulaby ISBN: 013185089X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $117.00 |
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Title: Linear Systems and Signals by B. P. Lathi ISBN: 0195151291 Publisher: Berkeley Cambridge Pr Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $107.00 |
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Title: Introduction to Electronic Circuit Design by Richard Spencer, Mohammed Ghausi ISBN: 0201361833 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 09 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $117.00 |
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