Electric circuits
- 9th ed.
- Singapore Pearson Education South Asia 2011
- 816 p. Includes index
The ninth edition of Electric Circuits represents a planned revision designed to incrementally improve this introductory circuits text used by more than 700,000 students worldwide during the past 28 years. While the book has evolved over the years to meet the changing learning styles of students, the fundamental goals of the text remain unchanged. These goals are: To build an understanding of concepts and ideas explicitly in terms of previous learning. Students are constantly challenged by the need to layer new concepts on top of previous concepts they may still be struggling to master. This text provides an important focus on helping students understand how new concepts are related to and rely upon concepts previously presented. To emphasize the relationship between conceptual understanding and problem-solving approaches. Developing problem-solving skills continues to be the central challenge in a first-year circuits course. In this text we include numerous Examples that present problem-solving techniques followed by Assessment Problems that enable students to test their mastery of the material and techniques intro-duced. The problem-solving process we illustrate is based on con-cepts rather than the use of rote procedures. This encourages students to think about a problem before attempting to solve it. To provide students with a strong foundation of engineering prac-tices. There are limited opportunities in a first-year circuit analysis course to introduce students to realistic engineering experiences. We continue to take advantage of the opportunities that do exist by including problems and examples that use realistic component values and represent realizable circuits. We include many problems related to the Practical Perspective problems that begin each chapter. We also include problems intended to stimulate the students' interest in engineering, where the problems require the type of insight typical of a practicing engineer.