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 This is a review of the 7th edition September 27, 2006
Craig Matteson (Ann Arbor, MI)
11 out of 17 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.
Good basic book for circuits September 9, 2009
F. Stroni (NJ)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's a good book for basic circuits and all the tricks that you need to know. Even though they came with newer version not much changes from the core of the older version so worth to keep it around.
Excellent Textbook December 1, 2008
Eric Boyer (Canada)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a great book. Very good explanations, lots of examples, lots of practice questions, good layout (everything is well-placed and there's lots of coloured diagrams/images), and good reference sections. I'm definitely keeping this book for future reference. The only bad things about it are that it is simplistic (it doesn't include important material that could have been easily included), and it has a lot of typos, especially considering that it's in its 8th edition.
The Best Electric Circuits book on this PLANET May 14, 2002
Jong (IL)
4 out of 8 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.
best book in electric circuits January 6, 2010
Jack (Houston, TX USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
compared to other similar books, it is more effective, elaborate, it is the most widely used electric circuits textbook for now.
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