Electric Circuits, Eighth Edition

James William Nilsson, Susan A. Riedel

Prentice Hall, 2008 - Technology & Engineering - 855 pages

Electric Circuits, Eighth Editionfeatures a new design,a four-color format, and 80% of chapter problems have been updated. In the midst of these changes, the book retains the goals that have made it a best-seller: 1) To build an understanding of concepts and ideas explicitly in terms of previous learning; 2) To emphasize the relationship between conceptual understanding and problem solving approaches; 3) To provide readers with a strong foundation of engineering practices.Chapter topics include Circuit Variables; Circuit Elements; Simple Resistive Circuits; Techniques of Circuit Analysis; The Operational Amplifier; Inductors, Capacitors, and Mutual Inductance; Response of First-OrderRLandRCCircuits; Natural and Step Responses ofRLCCircuits; Sinusoidal Steady-State Analysis; and more.For anyone interested in circuit analysis.

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Review: Electric Circuits

User Review  - Stepan - Goodreads

I have the 9th Edition. My classmates and I almost unanimously agreed that it was a poorly written book. Frankly I have never seen concepts so confusingly and insufficiently explained in any other Engineering, Mathematics, or Science book.

Review: Electric Circuits

User Review  - Ryan - Goodreads

Sure it was a class textbook but I still look at it from time to time. My first semester with it I utterly hated it!! But after the 2nd semester of circuits I found that I liked it. I am not really ...

Contents

• Circuit Variables: 2
• Circuit Elements: 22
• Simple Resistive Circuit: 31

About the author

Professor "James W. Nilsson" taught at Iowa State University for 39 years. Since retiring from Iowa State, he has been a visiting professor at Notre Dame, California Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo, and the United States Air Force Academy. In 1962, he co-authored (with R.G. Brown) "Introduction to Linear Systems Analysis" (John Wiley & Sons). In 1968, he authored "Introduction to Circuits, Instruments, and Electronics" (Harcourt Brace and World). Professor Nilsson received a Standard Oil Outstanding Teacher Award in 1968, the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1992, and the McGraw-Hill Jacob Millman Award in 1995. In 1990, he was elected to the rank of Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Professor "Susan A. Riedel" has been a member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Marquette University since 1981. She also holds a clinical research appointment in the Department of Orthopaedics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and was a visiting professor in the Bioengineering Unit at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, as a Fulbright Scholar during the 1989-1999 academic year. She has received two awards for teaching excellence at Marquette, and was recognized for her research contributions with an award from the Chicago Unit of the Shriner's Hospitals.

Riedel, Marquette University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Electric Circuits, Eighth Edition
• Authors: James William Nilsson, Susan A. Riedel
• Edition: 8, illustrated
• Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2008
• ISBN: 0131989251, 9780131989252
• Length: 855 pages
• Subjects: Technology & Engineering / Electrical; Technology & Engineering / Electronics / Circuits / General