Circuits
Fawwaz Ulaby
University of Michigan
Michel Maharbiz
University of California Berkeley
Check out the new Circuits Lab Companion! |
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| Publication Date: April 9th, 2009 |
Co-Author Michel Maharbiz
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| Binding: Casebound | |
| Language: English | |
| Price: $90 | |
| ISBN-10: 1-934891-00-2 | |
| ISBN-13: 978-1-934891-00-1 | |
| Page Count: 609 | |
| Format: 8 x 10, Four Color | |
| Media Included: Double Windows CD (envelope in back) |
About the Book |
Adopting Schools |
| An Impressive Vision With Contemporary Applications And A Student-Friendly Price The presentation conveys the timeless theories and problem-solving techniques but also links the subject to the contemporary field of electrical engineering, from carbon nanotubes to synthetic biology. It addresses many of the issues that instructors have to deal with when teaching introductory circuit courses – not enough real world motivation, dry presentation of material, unimaginative problems. “This book is a powerful reminder to students of what they potentially can achieve as future engineers.” This impressive new work is marked by the same clarity and crisp explanations that characterize the senior author’s Electromagnetics textbooks, which have been adopted by over 100 universities in the United States and by a comparable number of international universities. The focused presentation treats the subject in considerably fewer pages than comparable works on the subject. As circuit theory is traditionally the entry course into electrical and computer engineering, a wide-ranging and inspiring vision of the profession is given. This is done through the use of Technology Briefs (TBs), each 2 to 5 pages in length, highlighting specific technologies that expand the reader’s technical horizon to the many allied fields of science and technology but also underline the relevance of circuit theory. Take a look “Inside the Book” for the list of TBs and samples The four-color formatting with clear typography, large imagery, and diagrams with just the right amount of color, highlighting key terms and amplifying illustrations, bears a resemblance to the layout and design of contemporary introductory science textbooks. The text introduces Multisim, a user-friendly Spice based software simulator with a superior human/computer interface. Unlike free educational lite versions of Spice packaged with similar texts, which allow 20 or fewer active devices and 50 nodes in a circuit, the Ulaby/Maharbiz text comes with a full and complete version of the Multisim software, as well as many circuit examples on how to apply it.
As an additional bonus, a full version of LabVIEW is included on the CD to be used with the accompanying on-line lab manual and with performing matrix inversions and many other calculations described in the book. A second CD’s contents include student and instructor resources. |
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| Solutions to all in-chapter exercises, as well as step-by-step examples and additional exercises with solutions, are provided for students. All the figures, equations and tables from the book are organized by chapter on the CD for use by instructors in making overheads and slides. For instructors who register on the site and adopt the book for classroom use, complete solutions to all the end-of-chapter problems are provided on-line. Take a look “Inside the Book” to see sample instructor solutions ……And yes – the price of the book is 40% to 50% less than current textbooks! | |
