Electric Circuits Fundamentals (8th Edition) 8th Edition

This book is an interesting one. Honestly I can only say this:If you have a working understanding of calculus and differential equations, this book will frustrate you to no end. It was our mandatory text for an intro to electrical engineering class (non EE majors), and after a few weeks we all abandoned hope. Our professor at the time was new and never had a chance to look at the text before the department selected it. He gave up trying to use it because it attempts to teach the fundamentals of electric circuit analysis using basic algebra. If you've ever had to learn about RC, RL, and RLC circuits, you know that these circuits are governed by first and second order differential equations; you just can't teach it thoroughly with algebra.Just a simple example on current. Current is simply the amount of charge passing a given point in a certain instant in time. This can be simply written as I= dQ/dt. However, if you've never taken calculus, this expression might not make sense, or scare you off. Instead, there was some roundabout way of explaining current, which comes across as awkward when it can be reduced so much more.This book was around for one year before it was discontinued as part of the course curriculum, whereby another text was chosen.HOWEVER, I would imagine if you are still at the high school level and just have a basic interest in electricity, then perhaps this would be a decent text. I never truly looked at it from that level, but it does forego the complex mathematics that most will not have been acquainted to just yet.

For my future electrician son

This item was great; very tight, and it spread in about 23 minutes, so I was able to pull up on the curb at Downtown Chelsea Square and then still make it in to work on time. Definitely a good spray.

useful for my bro's college homework.

THIS BOOK IS JUST WHAT THE INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED AND HAS ALL THE INFORMATION I WILL NEED TO PASS THIS CLASS.I WOULD RECCOMEND THIS BOOK TO ALL WHO ARE INTERESTED IN FURTHERING THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF ELECTRONICS

Not bad but not goodIts used as a text book and is far too cluttered and incomplete for a proper textbook

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Superb explanation of electrical theory.

very good book, very helpful with my course workdont know how i would manage with out this great book.