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4.5
After trying to read other electric circuits texts, such as by authors Dorf and Svoboda, this text is not easy but very understanable.For example Nilsson covers parallel and series RLC circutis that lead straight to 2nd Order differential equations; but he manages to find common ground so the math appears similar for both types of RLC circuits. Nilsson uses symbols and math notation normally found in popular Differential Equations textbooks. This is great since some electric circuits authors generally like to develop their own notation set -- which for students makes learning much longer and harder.Technical authors need to standardize math notation used in technical courses as a way to eliminate much of the inherent confusion that now exists in many technical textbooks. Authors quickly rushed to developing their own notation in order to later avoid publication problems dealing with plagiarism issues that some could later raise.Also, Nilsson coverage of Laplace is also clear.Problems at the end of chapter are typically way above the coverage of the chapter's material, but maybe someday all authors will stop doing this nonsense. Someday textbooks may even come packaged and sold with a partial solution manual to help students overcome difficult problems.Gerard J. Sagliocca, P.E.Albany, N Y (USA)
