electricity

The author puts his decades of experience in nuclear and fossil power generation into this book.
It contains general mechanical and electrical theory, design approach, operation and maintenance concepts. It is written in practical terms that most working professionals can understand easily. At the same time, students will benefit greatly by the hands-on approach, gaining virtual experience into a power generation station.
This book is highly recommended for experienced professional and technical staff with the desire to expand on their knowledge. As well as students seeking a career in the field of power generation.

Charles Choy
Senior Electrical Engineer
City of Toronto

As a professional and in order to meet the daily technical challenges I rely on sources that they can provide me with accurate and practical information.
The newly acquired "Power Generation Handbook" authored by P.Kiameh is a valuable addition to my library and a starting point in my quest for answers.
The well research and equally well presented material of this "Handbook" has been a foundation of many valuable information.
From the way the information is presented one can "see" that the author has many years of "hands on' experience, which was accumulated develop and refine on the "floor" of a very large generating facility. As such the information presented is accurate, practical and proven.
This Handbook is a must for any professional.

This is an excellent, practical handbook on power generation. It contains clear descriptions of how power generation components are constructed, how they work and how to maintain them. Points in the text are illustrated through numerous detailed photographs, drawings and graphs. Topics include steam turbines, governing systems, valves, lubrication systems, gas turbines, bearings, seals, combined cycles, cogeneration, electrical components, etc.

I have attended two courses taught by Philip Kiameh at the University of Toronto's Professional Development Centre, one on power generation equipment and the other on mechanical equipment. Philip was an excellent teacher and his text books are similarly excellent and I highly recommend them. This text book is a valuable reference to the power generation course material.

Absolutely the best book I've found to explain electricity, in the most simplictic form. I'm a person who learns through visual diagrams and this book is chaulked full of easy to understand drawings. Each chapter ends with a review section to reiterate what you've learned and a self-test that follows. Excellent book!

After 30 years of doing "other things" I decided to refresh my knowledge of electrical principles learned in the military. This book is excellent because it starts at the very beginning and builds, one concept on another, with ample photos and illustrations, to allow you to truly understand what you are reading. If you want to learn about electricity and don't want to go take a course to do it, this is the book...even if you don't know anything at all about the subject!

I first read volumes 1-5 ten years ago when I started working as an elevator technician. My copies are third time hand-me-downs of the original 1954 publication. These are without a doubt the most helpful books I have ever read on basic electrical theory. Each topic is clearly and concisely explained and forms a building block for further topics in the series. These books form the foundation of knowledge I use in everyday real world applications. The authors explain each principle with reference to real world examples to allow the reader to relate what they have read to what they have seen.

This is a very good handbook for not only power quality professional,but also electrical engineers. With well organized chapters, it covered comprehensive knowledge of power quality and relevant experience of authors. I really hope it can be translated into Chinese and let more power quality professionals share this valuable resource.

I have recently asked some electrical engineers to recommend me a good book concerning Power Quality. Each of them gave me two or three recommendations and only "Electrical Power Systems Quality" by R. C. Dugan, M. F. McGranaghan, S. Santoso and H. W. Beaty appeared in all recommendations...
Indeed, it seems to me to be one of the best books about Power Quality I have ever read. It is very well organized, complex and up-to-date, and above all it is very useful for my research project as it offers clear descriptions (understanding) of all, important Power Quality issues. I would recommend it as a kind of compendium for engineers, designers and researchers that work not only with Power Quality but also with modern Electric Power Systems in general.

This is a must have for any professional involved in Power Quality. Not only are all the topics covered, they are explained in a way that is easy to read and understand.

As a battery engineer, I've found this handbook the single most useful technical reference in battery design, application, and troubleshooting.

The chapters are divided by battery chemistry, and each is written by an expert in the field. Most chapters include detailed technical descriptions of chemistry, electrical characteristics, construction details, applications, and pros/cons charts.

The 3rd edition features significant changes, including updates to older sections as well as new sections on progress in advanced battery systems, and an immense new section on lithium-ion batteries.

My only complaint is the lack of uniformity across chapters in terms of informational content and format. This can make comparison of battery technologies difficult. Some chapters go into too much technical detail, while some others leave out critical considerations.

These are relatively minor quibbles, however, and do not make the Handbook any less valuable to anyone dealing with batteries or other energy storage systems.

a very good book on tips of batteries. if i had never even read it, i would have died of an electrical shock my sister almost gave me.Read this book, it could save your life.

electricity and machines , generators and so on.

I don't think that reviewers should comment on other reviewers reviewing other reviewer's english.

I think this is a great book, with a not-so-nice review from Pakistan. I think reviews that attack other reviewers shouldn't be allowed in the site.

This is an excellent book and I think that Prof. Desoer does not deserve a review in bad english with misspellings. I suggest you remove this review.

I attended the University of Colorado, Boulder as a graduate student in EE in the mid-1980's . I took Dr. Johnk's classes in Electromagnetics, and was very inspired by him personally. He has some sort of 3-D visualization coprocessor in his brain, and the explanatory drawings he made in class reflected that anatomical curiosity, as do the drawings and explanations in this text book of his. In this book, he has pulled together all the important concepts of engineering electromagnetics. I own a bunch of other books on electromagnetics for use as references, but this one is the one I use consistently. My copy of this book now looks like it was dragged down the road behind a car, just from over-use. Soon I will have to buy a new copy.

I own the first edition of the text. Carl presents the material in a very logical and thoughful manner. I have never been as impressed of a textbook before. It reads well and has amazing hand-drawn figures.
A must have for any electrical engineering student, physicist, or fields fanatic.

I took Carl T.A. Johnk's electromagnetics classes at the University of Colorado back in the early 80's. He inspired my career in microwaves and antennas. His lectures were always instructive and entertaining (if you can believe it for an EM class). His book embodies his colorful and insightful lectures.

DAS

L.J. Davis' Fleet Fire tells of the interactions between various scientists and inventors who contributed to the discovery of electricity and the revolutionary changes instigated by its use. Little-known facts, anecdotes, and insights accompany these capsule features of inventors ranging from Ben Franklin to Thomas Davenport and Cyrus Field.

The recent outage of electrical power in New York and other states has highlighted the importance of electricity. Without it, we cannot work, travel, or communicate, or at least we cannot do these things with the efficiency we have come to expect when we have easily available current. With electricity so demonstrably vital, it is a good time to learn just how we got it. _Fleet Fire: Thomas Edison and the Pioneers of the Electric Revolution_ (Arcade) by L. J. Davis is not just Edison's story, but the story of electricity going back to the Greeks. It is a story filled with odd characters; given the peculiarities of so many of them, it might be thought improbable that delivered electricity could have ever become so universal.

America was involved in electrical experimentation from the beginning of scientific evaluation of such things. Ben Franklin, of course, is forever associated with the start of electrical investigations, and to him we owe such terms as battery, discharge, and condenser. Investigating electricity, however, proved to be a great disappointment for the practical Franklin; he may have invented the lightning rod, but he could not make electricity do anything practical. The great step toward practicality was made in 1796 when Alessandro Volta stacked zinc and lead and made a powerful and useful battery; experimenters no longer had to rely on iffy static charges in a Leyden jar. For almost eighty years, most of the world's electrical power came from batteries. This was despite the invention of the dynamo generator by Faraday in the 1830s. It was not until 1873 in an exhibit in Vienna that dynamos were wrongly connected and someone noticed that one dynamo could turn another dynamo into an electric motor. A few years later, Thomas Edison sensed the opportunity of sending electricity into homes to do motor work. He also worked hard on the light bulb, but Davis makes the case that "The light bulb destroyed Menlo Park and it wrecked Edison as a major inventor." The problem was direct current, and much of the book involves the vituperative competition between Edison for direct current, and Westinghouse and the extremely weird Tesla for alternating current.

Davis gives many examples of inventors who because of petty jealousies or greed did not get credit for their work; if you have never heard of Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, you have heard his radio, the one that sends voices rather than the mere impulses Marconi managed. There were so many wrong turns taken by brilliant men on the way to find good ways to make and use electricity that Davis's tale is an exciting (I will not say shocking) account of human foibles. It is good to be reminded, once again, that scientific knowledge cannot be gained in an orderly or planned fashion, but is accumulated catch-as-catch-can, the way humans perform even the most serious endeavors.

In a breezy, readable style reminiscent of James Burke's Connections, the author tells the story of the harnessing of electricity, from Benjamin Franklin's kite to Guglielmo Marconi and the beginnings of radio. Playing no national favorites, the book debunks some popular myths about Morse and Edison, and places developments in Britain and Europe in context with those in America.
Morse and the development of landline telegraphy have their own 52-page chapter, and the story of Cyrus Field and the Atlantic Cable occupies a further 49 pages. Covering all aspects of the history of electricity, Fleet Fire is an entertaining and informative study. The book has endnotes, a bibliography, and, appropriately, a web-page listing of related material.

Bref, c'est tres bien sauf que beaucoup d'erreur se sont glisses dans le livre. C'est le probleme principal de ce livre est que l'audience est tres restreinte aux eleves de secondes. J'en appelle donc au serieux de l'auteur pour se relire quand meme.

Il est ecrit que Integrale infinie de la derivee est egale a la fonction identite, non c'est faux. la constante a disparu. Beaucoup d'autres erreurs similaires sont surprenantes.

This book is the best introduction to advanced electromagnetic theory I have ever encountered. The author does a masterly job at simplifying the mathematics without over-simplifying the physics. If you're looking to gain a deep understanding of electromagnetics and its relation to the theory of relativity, this book is for you!

C'est de loin l'exposé le plus clair sur le sujet à ma connaissance. Quant au rapport qualité/prix, on voisine l'infini

In a book that is heavily mathematic, it is very useful to have a table of symbols to refer to. However, this text not only has no such table, but the author often fails to define the symbols he uses! He cannot assume that the symbols he uses is so standard that the reader will already be familiar with them. Also, he even often fails to define his terms directly, but relies on homonyms in subsequent sentences, and apparently expects the reader to infer the meaning, and to know that he refers to the previous concept. However, this can lead to many misunderstandings and impedes the progress of learning substantially.

This is a good Antenna Book. It gives a clear introduction on how wave radiates from antenna, and gives many practical examples on how to design various antennas. I particularly like one of the design problem where a TV antenna (Yagi-Uda Antenna) can be constructed cheaply using coat hangers. Although it does not have as many examples as the antenna book by Balanis, it still covers many aspects of antenna analysis including method of moments and FDTD.

It even feels heavy ! Discones, patches, loops, rhombics - good solid theory even on the less common. A good (slightly dated) review of computer design tools. Recommended for professionals in the antenna field (no pun intended).

I like the approach the author takes to introduce a complex subject to the masses. However, the fiction is childish and verbose. The science is overwhelmed. I'd only recommend this book to those who know nothing of electricity or those who think Dave Barry writes literature.

Computers, in 2003, have combined many features of low-level electronics, radio, basic electricity, and electromagnetism. Understanding what's inside the box, and even many of the system components that come with a new computer, depends on having some sort of knowledge of things like transistors and capacitors. What's the difference between SRAM and SDRAM, DDR-SDRAM, and RDRAM?

Until recently, I thought electricity "flowed" from positive to negative. When I learned it was the opposite, I wondered about everything else I'd learned. This book is one of the few outside of histories of Nikla Tesla that really speaks to the foundation of our knowledge of electricity. Using an ongoing model where electrons are "greenies," Amdahl creates a combination of science-fiction, and swords and sorcery to lead us into the microcosmic world of particle physics, magnetism, and how the two intertwine.

I thought it was a great book, easy to read, and filled with humor. Sometimes the humor had so many twists and turns it became fairly insane; but how often does a science textbook ever really capture our imagination as "just a plain book to read?"

There are lots of highly complicated books about electricity, but few of them define the fundamental concepts in such a way as to make them memorable. Amdahl's book reminds me of the "For Dummies" series of computer books, particularly the early ones. Many times he mentions technical jargon or certain formulas, but then goes on to tell us not to worry about learning them. Oddly enough, by the end of the book, you've learned them anyway.

Oops did I say electrons I meant Greenies. Want to know what a Greenie is? Well a Greenie is a brilliant teaching method used in this book by a very gifted author. It doesn't stop there though. This book is like reading a script for a really good episode of "X-Files", but the whole time you are learning about electronics. If you want to start learning electronics, let Kenn Amdahl be your Yoda. However, the book may scare you out of ever fishing again ;).