Recommend me an intro electric circuit analysis book.

[iamtrout]

What electric circuits textbook are you guys using for your intro to circuit analysis classes? Mine is horrible as explaining concepts and the examples are far, far too simple.

Currently I'm past nodal analysis and going onto mesh analysis.

 

[Gibson486]

All the books suck...Are you using a little green book? I think it is by Susan Reidel (sp?). Throw away that book now! It is terrible. The best way is to clear your midn and just do teh porblem without looking to much into it. Circuits is easier than the prof or books make it out to be.

 

[iamtrout]

Heh, the problem is that the book my prof uses to teach the class is the Riedel book, only his is 5th edition and white. From the reviews I've read on Amazon, it's absolute sh!t. And he's teaching from it...

What's weird is that the students actually use a different book from the prof (he's new).

So far it's been so confusing... unfinished homework, etc.

 

[LordSnailz]

Bummer was looking for a similar book as well ... an alternative might be another class's online lecture notes.

 

[Gibson486]

That book is terrible and most universities use it b/c it is a good weeding out book and they have some kick back of some sort from it. The sad thing is that the stuff is really easy, but books make it very hard. So you are doing mesh current? just put each curent through each loop. When ever you get two current on one branch going the same direction, add them and subtract them other wise.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Electrical Engineering
PRinciples and Applications
Hambley, 3rd Edition

Text

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
Electrical Engineering
PRinciples and Applications
Hambley, 3rd Edition

Text

"The book is on eletrical engineering and the cover is something to do with American football. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is absolutely no link between the two!

The best part of this book is its cover.

Get my drift?"

:thumbsup:

 

[iamtrout]

*sigh* Well goddamn it. My book sucks, plus my teacher is new at teaching so his lectures and in class examples are near impossible to understand, plus his homeworks are a LOT harder than ANYTHING the book examples have...

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: iamtrout
*sigh* Well goddamn it. My book sucks, plus my teacher is new at teaching so his lectures and in class examples are near impossible to understand, plus his homeworks are a LOT harder than ANYTHING the book examples have...

If you get teh following out of this class, you will do fine in Electronics, so jus take thss class, get a C and move on:

Nodal Analysis (used alot)
Mesh Current (used a few times)
AC Anaysis (the Riedel book makes this very hard, but it is actually really easy).
Know what happens when you have a current source in series with a voltage source (I had that on a test).

 

[misle]

My Circuit Theory class used this book : Fundamentals of Electric Circuits

It's pretty good. My class used the 1st edition though.

Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
Charles K. Alexander
Matthew N.O. Sadiku
Publisher: McGraw Hill

 

[iamtrout]

I gotta go figure out nodal analysis. I got a C on the last test, but that's really bombing it because I had NO idea what was going on with nodal analysis going into the test. He was just being really really forgiving.

I mean, I can do the simple problems in the book examples with no problem at all. But for the different circuit configurations that he gives out... out of 5 homework problems on nodal analysis, I got *one* of them. I couldn't find anything even remotely close to his problems from the book, and his lectures and notes are just a bunch of gibberish to me because he

1. assumes we have insight which we don't actually have
2. gives us really confusing examples, and without #1, becomes impossible to follow.

 

[iamtrout]

Originally posted by: misle
My Circuit Theory class used this book : Fundamentals of Electric Circuits

It's pretty good. My class used the 1st edition though.

Fundamentals of Electric Circuits
Charles K. Alexander
Matthew N.O. Sadiku
Publisher: McGraw Hill

This is actually the book I use. I hate it because the examples are soooo easy compared to the problems actually given from the professor, who uses the Riedel book with the impossible problems

Yup, I'm fvcked. My prof uses a different book to plan his lectures from what the rest of the class uses.

 

[misle]

You can buy the solutions manual for the book I posted on Half.com for ~$2

Solutions help me to re-affirm my understanding of the problems.

 

[misle]

Sounds like you need to form a study group or visit your professor's office hours often.

 

[Wonderful Pork]

This is the book that I used in my intro circuits class (I think). Either way, its not the greatest of books, but whatever.

 

[Gibson486]

nodal analysis is probably the most important out of all of them. It's the basis of a voltage divider (very important, but easy).

 

[jessicak]

We use Fundamentals of Electric Circuits by Alexander and Sadiku. It has succesfully gotten me through two quarters of incompetent professors. It's pretty easy to learn from this book.

link

 

[gnomepunk]

Try this.

are you an EE major? if not, take the C and be done with it. I'm a computer engineer and i got C's in both my circuit analysis classes. no harm done. Besides there is plenty of simulation software out there so you don't do this by hand anymore.

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: gnomepunk
Try this.

are you an EE major? if not, take the C and be done with it. I'm a computer engineer and i got C's in both my circuit analysis classes. no harm done. Besides there is plenty of simulation software out there so you don't do this by hand anymore.

Even EE's can get a C in that class. The class is more of a weeding out class the a learning class.

 

[LordMorpheus]

There is a very good book for Fundamentals of Elec at Rice university . . . the kicker for you is that it is available online. Link:

http://cnx.rice.edu/content/col10040/latest/

This is a very finicky system and if it doesn't work in your browser try another. It's a good book.

edit: circuit analysis starts at Voltage, Current, and Generic Circuit Elements.

It covers purely resistive circuit, and circuits with capacitors and inductors and diodes using impedence.

 

[Andrew Lees]

What electric circuits textbook are you guys using for your intro to circuit analysis classes? Mine is horrible as explaining concepts and the examples are far, far too simple.

Currently I'm past nodal analysis and going onto mesh analysis.

Check out this website:
Www.circuit-simulation.net