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Circuits overloaded from electric circuit analysis?
Many universities require that students pursuing a degree in electrical or computer engineering take an Electric Circuit Analysis course to determine who will "make the cut" and continue in the degree program. Circuit Analysis For Dummies will help these students to better understand electric circuit analysis by presenting the information in an effective and straightforward manner.
Circuit Analysis For Dummies gives you clear-cut information about the topics covered in an electric circuit analysis courses to help further your understanding of the subject. By covering topics such as resistive circuits, Kirchhoff's laws, equivalent sub-circuits, and energy storage, this book distinguishes itself as the perfect aid for any student taking a circuit analysis course.
- Tracks to a typical electric circuit analysis course
- Serves as an excellent supplement to your circuit analysis text
- Helps you score high on exam day
Whether you're pursuing a degree in electrical or computer engineering or are simply interested in circuit analysis, you can enhance you knowledge of the subject with Circuit Analysis For Dummies.
- Sales Rank: #241684 in Books
- Published on: 2013-04-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x .75" w x 7.40" l, 1.25 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
From the Back Cover
Learn to:
- Grasp resistive circuits, Kirchhoff's laws, equivalent subcircuits, and more
- Supplement your classroom learning
- Score high in your Circuit Analysis course
Circuits overloaded from electrical circuit analysis?
Circuit Analysis For Dummies gives you clear-cut information about the topics covered in a typical circuit analysis course. From resistive circuits and Kirchhoff's laws to equivalent subcircuits and energy storage, this friendly, hands-on guide is the perfect aid for making sense of the topics that may be confusing you in your circuit analysis course. So what are you waiting for?
- Circuit Analysis 101 — get the lowdown on the engineering lingo, concepts, and techniques necessary to analyze circuits
- Simplify it — understand the general analytical methods that help you simplify more complicated circuits to a manageable level
- Get amped — recognize how to work with transistors as current amplifiers and op-amps as voltage amplifiers
- Ch-ch-ch-changes — deal with changing signals and circuits that have passive energy storage devices (such as inductors and capacitors)
- Be a convert — use phasor and Laplace techniques to convert a calculus-based problem into one requiring only algebra
Open the book and find:
- The keys to reading circuit schematics
- How to apply Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's laws when analyzing circuits
- The steps for transforming sources
- Mesh current analysis, superposition, and other useful analytical methods
- The ins and outs of op-amp circuits
- Approaches for analyzing first- and second-order circuits
- How to create filters by connecting resistors, inductors, and capacitors
About the Author
John M. Santiago Jr., PhD, served in the United States Air Force (USAF) for 26 years. During that time, he held a variety of leadership positions in technical program management, acquisition development, and operation research support. While assigned in Europe, he spearheaded more than 40 international scientific and engineering conferences/workshops.
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Outstanding Advanced Review, but get Schaum's for Beginners
By Let's Compare Options Preptorial
Of all the Dummies books, and I've reviewed dozens, this is the least likely to fit the "series" philosphy as a beginner's book. Still, by definition, if you get a book on Fourier Transforms for "dummies" for example, the title is already an oxymoron. Same with this little gem.
If you don't have deep linear algebra (vectors, matrices, reduction to diagonals via numeric methods, etc.) and a good solid ability to solve differential equations (in advanced classes circuits use Fourier analysis and Laplace transforms as well as, today, Lagrangians in dynamical systems), PASS on this book, even though it's a great price/value for the material if you are ADVANCED-grad level, but not necessarily an EE.
If there can be such a thing, Schaum's is the real "beginners" circuit analysis book-- Schaum's Outline of Basic Circuit Analysis, Second Edition (Schaum's Outline Series)-- IF you get it from an Amazon third party, be SURE it is the SECOND edition--, because it is filled with WORKED problems. (This fine "dummies" book has answers, but no explanations of the steps, such as the fact that if you find a transform, the tough part of the answer is then in "transforming" by going back to the inverse). ODE's are equations of functions, and without at least a year of linear algebra, you'll be lost).
I think what some other reviewers miss is that this book IS a five star wonder for advanced students. It should NOT have been included in a "dummies" title without more warning. Don't get me wrong, there are other "dummies" books on advanced topics, like differential equations or linear algebra themselves, but circuit analysis involves representing first component boards, then diagrams, mathematically. This takes very advanced trig (voltages are signals and information, not just potential changes), and the ability to see what is negative and positive and how that becomes part of the equation. As a PhD EE and roboticist, I can humbly say that this is as much art as science, and can take a lifetime to learn! In that sense, MOST EE's have felt, at one time or another, like dummies when trying to "get" a circuit in Matlab or Simulink, let alone VHDL or a user friendly helpmate like Spice.
Robbins and Miller are really the "go to" authors in this field, and I am sorry to say as a budget conscious person that, in this area, you get what you pay for. In our librarian database they are preferred nearly 6 to 1 over any other circuit analysis text, for both undergrad and computer scientists in grad school taking an ancillary EE course. Even if you're a hobbyist, you need to first get the basics of Maxwell etc. before tackling dynamical systems and PDE's, even if you DO know linear algebra. You can see some reviews of R and M at: Circuit Analysis: Theory and Practice.
All that said, for the price, this Dummies pony is highly recommended for the right audience, such as computer scientists with advanced math who only need circuits in passing rather than, as the publisher promotes, "to make the cut." If you are using Spice or another circuit analysis software package, the problems here will let you see what's beneath the ice, but the author does not get into code here. Get Robbins if you want/ need to make some "cut." Significantly, our patent circuit-analysis company (my day job) at payroy dot com has seen numerous Chinese translations of this and two similar texts for Chinese beginning undergrads. "Discrete math" has not been removed from the High School curriculum there, and includes linear algebra. Telling.
For the hobbyist or truly budget conscious, a GREAT oldie but goodie from Schaums (still outstanding at this writing) is: 3,000 Solved Problems in Electrical Circuits. It covers not only analysis problems, but also design, components, rules of thumb, etc. for the "practical" circuit designer and analyst in both A and D. In that regard, NOTE that this latter little book (which, even from 1988 is a little more expensive than the dummies books) is for ELECTRIC, not just electronic circuits, so you're dealing with analog as well as digital topics, problems, examples and solutions.
If you're in signal processing or other a/d fields, this might be the one for you. Millions of copies of the 3,000 series have been sold-- they're keepers! HOBBYISTS: For the BEST options in this field on a TIGHT budget, search Amazon with these two keyword combinations: 1. "Circuit Analysis Dover" and 2. "Circuits Dover". Dozens of wonderful classics will come up, some new for as little as $7 US. Especially if you're into RF/analog, etc. there is NO reason not to take advantage of the wonderful detailed math explanations even if you have to put up with a few outdated "vacuum tube" references. (Unless you're in VERY high voltage storage and transmission, where you still find 'em!).
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Circuit Analysis is not for Dummies!
By Greyson50
After reading the reviews, my end conclusion is the same as when Dr. J. told us he was writing this book. There is no such thing as "Circuit Analysis for Dummies", as much as there is no "Brain Surgery for Dummies". The title of the book is so very inappropriate for the complexity of the material.
As a recent graduate, this book would have been helpful when I was taking the courses. More helpful than Schuams, which I have several copies. The Schuams gives a lot of equations, and short cuts to reference material, but if you want to understand the material, you need a full fledged book.
It is unfortunate that the 'for Dummies" series are the people who contact Dr. J. to write the book. I feel if McGraw-Hill or some other publisher asked him to write it, then the reviews would not be as near critical.
However, as a student of Dr. Santiago's, and I am reading the text, I don't find it very complicated, but at the same time the author was one of my professors until I graduated, so it's a matter of perception.
So, in conclusion folks, there is nothing "for Dummies" about circuit analysis. Stick to "Sex for Dummies" if that's what your looking for.
I will state this as clearly as I possibly can, and I hope other reviewers understand the point:
Circuit Analysis is an ADVANCED discipline for Electrical Engineers. If you are a layman seeking to understand the basics of electrical devices, I suggest a course at your local community college. It is cheap and you will get the advanced mathematical concepts needed in order to perform circuit analysis. If you are a student, I will tell you he based his assumptions on what the reader will have to know upon a A.B.E.T. accredited program. In other words, as a student, you should have already passed all those calculus and physics courses before you took a circuits analysis course.
Not all books labeled "for Dummies" means that the subject matter is easy to grasp. For a fact, circuit analysis cannot be performed without knowledge of Laplace or Fourier transform, calculus, or physics. There is a reason that Electrical Engineer programs have the title "The Second Toughest Degree Program in the United States" - because it is tough.
This book was not written to be a short-cut to education, or a alternative to studying. It was written to help those struggling with the concepts to add some clarity to their perception. In that respect, Dr. Santiago aced it.
I found the book well written, entertaining to read, and it is arranged in a linear fashion from simple to complex. I enjoyed it immensely.
14 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Not Sure Where it Fits
By PJM
I understand that my review will not be in the mainstream of opinion, but feel that I must give my honest reaction to the book, even if it is not a popular view. My honest opinion is I am having difficulty seeing where this book fits in. It is titled, "Circuit Analysis for Dummies", and then says that the author wrote it with the assumption you are well versed in Linear Algebra and Differential Equations. The author states that the book is intended to help those in a first year circuits class. To me, all this just simply does not add up. First, if you are well versed in Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, you are not a "Dummy". Second, if you are struggling in the first year circuits class, you better run while you still can, because my experience was that the classes got way harder very quickly, and if this sort of stuff does not come naturally to you, you might better consider a different career field.
The book is way too much about how to handle specific special cases of rather simple circuits, and not enough about how to, from a strategic sense, tackle whatever circuit might come your way. If this book is used as a crutch because it helps you to work through certain special case, simple problems, what happens when you hit the first slightly more complicated circuit not covered in the book. This book has a feel of "Cliff Notes"; something to help you make it through the class, when you are not really learning how to master the subject.
I have seen many students struggle with first year electronics. My experience is that the problem is not with the college textbook, and is not in the way the material is explained. My experience is that students do not have the discipline and attention to detail to work through problems. Remember how your high school math teacher always told you to work neatly and show your work? It really does matter. Being good at circuits, and being good in engineering is about having a strategy to work a problem, then work through it neatly and methodically, and then working in orthogonal ways to check and make sure your solutions are correct. I also observe a major cause of struggle in a circuits class is a lack of excellence in math. I believe that a student truly proficient in linear algebra and differential equations will not struggle in circuits.
Bottom line is that if you need this book to make it through your first circuits class, you are going to be in a world of hurt when you get to the more advanced classes. My advice to students in first year circuits classes . . . dig deep, work hard, be neat, be careful, and don't look for shortcuts or magic bullets to get you through the class.
I do see some areas that this book might be useful. If you are a programmer, and are interested in getting more into some hardware projects, this book might help understand the basics of simple circuits. For example, if you are programming a microcontroller, and want it to interface with some simple circuits, this book would help you build the skills you need. It might also be useful for the home hobbyist who wants to start tinkering with electronics.
My bottom line as a 30 year practicing engineer, and now an educator, it is crucial that students really learn the fundamental concepts of analysis, and not rely on a quick fix book.
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