Engineering Circuit Analysis Review

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(More customer reviews)Good book, tough problems.
The chapters themselves are very well written and provide good example problems to help illustrate the various techniques. The problem that I have with this book is the difficulty level of the excersises in the back of each chapter. They are, I think, a bit too challenging for the typical student.
Don't get me wrong: of course there should be some difficult problems to challenge us. But there should also be some easy ones along with a few of middling difficulty. This book, though, pretty much slams you with some very tricky stuff right away.
I highly recommend using one of the Schaum's outlines (Basic Circuit Analysis) to supplement this book. They seem to provide a more gradual approach to learning the material--giving you tons of practice problems to drive the point home.
Overall, a good book. But maybe a few "confidence builders" to start each problem set would improve things a bit.

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The hallmark feature of this classic text is its focus on the student – it is written so that students may teach the science of circuit analysis to themselves.Terms are clearly defined when they are introduced, basic material appears toward the beginning of each chapter and is explained carefully and in detail, and numerical examples are used to introduce and suggest general results.Simple practice problems appear throughout each chapter, while more difficult problems appear at the ends of chapters, following the order of presentation of text material.This introduction and resulting repetition provide an important boost to the learning process.Hayt's rich pedagogy supports and encourages the student throughout by offering tips and warnings, using design to highlight key material, and providing lots of opportunities for hands-on learning.The thorough exposition of topics is delivered in an informal way that underscores the authors' conviction that circuit analysis can and should be fun.

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Engineering Circuit Review

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(More customer reviews)The book is intended for undergrad electrical, computer, mechanical engineering students, etc... That's a given, but is very beneficial for ANY engineering student. I'm going into chemical engineering and my first semester in circuitry was very insightful. What I've gained from this book is a better approach to problem solving. Not to mention a general knowledge of analyzing circuits. The problems are difficult because most of the concepts are easy to understand. Ohm's, Kirchoff's Voltage and Current Laws, Resistance Combinations are all easy concepts to grasp. When tackling a problem however, you need to use those concepts and turn that seemingly difficult problem into an easy problem. Most of the time that's the case. Of course when you get into the later chapters dealing with inductance, capacitance, reactance, power analysis, RLC circuits, etc... those are difficult because the calculus may confuse you. But you need it because they turn the very 'weird looking equations' into 'simpler algebraic equations.'
Bottom line is, the authors make the problems hard because they expect much from you.

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The hallmark feature of this classic text is its focus on the student - it is written so that students may teach the science of circuit analysis to themselves. Terms are clearly defined when they are introduced, basic material appears toward the beginning of each chapter and is explained carefully and in detail, and numerical examples are used to introduce and suggest general results. Simple practice problems appear throughout each chapter, while more difficult problems appear at the ends of chapters, following the order of presentation of text material. This introduction and resulting repetition provide an important boost to the learning process. Hayt's rich pedagogy supports and encourages the student throughout by offering tips and warnings, using design to highlight key material, and providing lots of opportunities for hands-on learning. The thorough exposition of topics is delivered in an informal way that underscores the authors' conviction that circuit analysis can and should be fun.

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Schaum's Outline of Basic Circuit Analysis Review

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(More customer reviews)BASIC CIRCUITS ANALYSIS - 2nd Edition - O'Malley
Not a bad book for students confronting analog circuit analysis for the 1st time. The book should also provide a comfortable review for someone who has been away from the subject for awhile
It is obvious that some thought went into this work. The book is without calculus, but the EE student should appreciate the crisp & clean presentation & find it a good companion to a more advanced course. It is often the insight & approach to solving these basic analog circuit analysis problems that are most important at this time & this book should help in that regard. As opposed to many technical books by this publisher, I found few errors; however I have not worked many of the problems - which are numerous. The book follows the Schaum Outline format: bare-bones introduction of a subject with some of the meat contained in the problems. This can result in one needing another sentence or two in the text to fill a hold, as in the chapter on Phasors, for example.
I do think the PSpice circuit analysis is over played a bit. The author does introduce the old MS-DOS text based system (with little explanation) where circuit node files must be written, compiled & run. I suspect that since Windows 95 & the wide distribution of PSpice 8.0 with the schematic capture front end, these more recent & useful features would now be in use in most institutions & work places.
However, the book is well worth the price & covers most of the subjects usually encountered in a 1st semester course of beginning analog circuit analysis plus a good introduction to Op-Amps. I recommend the book.

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