electricity

This book has considerable information for advanced studies, but is lacking more down to earth presentation. It needs more simplified terminology.This is not a book for a first year colledge student.

I had engineering science program years ago , but not much electrial circuits- just the basics. I bought this book for self-study. I read through the first eight chapters and worked a lot of the problems without much problem. I then read the chapters on the smaller electric motors and some about controls. Its not a begineers self-study book. If you have the background you can learn from this book;however, I had to read some of the material over several times to understand it. I still didn't feel like I had a good understanding about the basics of electric motors. Like how to wire them up, how to read the nameplate and so forth. This book is for the classroom and lab. It has a lot of information. My local university uses it in their technology program for three different courses I think.

I am delighted to have found this text. I find it the most comprehensive, complete and up-to-date text on electrical machinery, power distribution and transmission, etc., that I've seen. It does an esppecially outstanding job of presenting harmonics and harmonic effects on modern power systems. Kudos to the author!

If you are looking for clear explanations of basic electrical principles, Mr. Kaiser does an excellent job of using mathmatical formulas to explain them. His examinations of ac theory are clear, concise, and written at apprenctice-level. The writing style is certainly dry.

Motor control occupies a very short section at the end of this book, and it is badly out of date. Look elsewhere if you are interested in recent technological advances.

I am an electrical engineer. I have read and used this book to explain certain technical complex issues dealing with ac electrical power. Mr. Kaiser has explained things in a great way that makes understanding the behavior of electricity easy. Thanks !!!!!

Even thou I have not completed this book in its entirety, I am pleased to say that I have found it to be informative.

I have been in the electrical industry for almost twenty five years and in all that time there have been several aspects of electrical theory which I have never really fully understood.

This book has made some of the mathematical problems seem so simple and easily understood that I now feel that I have just come out of my apprenticeship.

Anyone who wishes to understand the logic behind electrical theory needs to read this book.

The book is well oragnized book. It deal with the area of power system stability and control. The main advantage of the book it's simple and contains a detail description of power system componets representation in per unit system and the equivalent model used in different power system studies. Also, it contains a good description of time domain stability study and voltgae stability study. The only problem is with tranisent Energy Function (TEF)portion it's not well explained and very short without any enough detail about the method.The example attached to this portion is only 2 bus system with on of them is infinte bus bar system. But the overall rate of the book is good.

This book is very helpfull in analyzing and understanding the stability problem of power systems. I wish all interested readers have a look on this book.

I teach a graduate-level course on the Utility Applications of Power Electronics where we used this book as a reference. We found this book to be excellent, and I highly recommend it.

For those who want to know the fundamentals of Automated Industrial Systems under the heading of Electrical Motor Control... This text of ISBN 0-8273-8640-0, I can not recommend. There maybe better text that I am not aware of, But ISBN 0-8269-1663-5 from 1987 is a text you can grow with. I'll be upgrading to ISBN 0-8269-1675-9 by Gary Rockis & Glen Mazur. Sincerely, Industrial Maintenance Electrician of 12+ years. I will post an additional review once I have viewed the upgraded edition. (I've wondered about these reviews... Are they posted by a PR / sales people???) Good Luck & Be Safe.

Very competently written text that covers all areas of traditional motor control. The author demonstrates his field knowledge by including typical characteristics of device failure and indications where inspection and possible maintenance would be prudent. Circuits and schematics are shown in standard ladder logic convention and in some instances even shows analogy to digital logic for those who are formerly trained electronics technicians.

My one criticism is the sequencing of some of the chapters. The author seems to have weaved in and out of some areas where I expected more complete coverage only to find the topics further toward the back of the text. This detracts from an otherwise well written and authoritative text for the 1st time and intermediate level learner.

It is on my bookshelf and I have scribbled notes throughout it.

This book could have been a real "keeper" if not for the editing problems. It leaves me wondering about the accuracy of the content. There are four diagrams within the first few chapters that have exactly the same caption. Only one is correct, the other three are clearly out of context.

The use of a single highlight color (blue) is annoying. For a subject that is so dependent on color codes, full color illustrations are a must. This is one corner that should not have been cut.

Mike Holt books are world-class, no doubt about it. If you need to learn the 1999 code (say, for certification in California) because your AHJ still uses it, then this is the volume for you. This book only covers through Article 450. If you want the same clear, graphically illustrated (two or three graphics each page that really clarify code points) and explanatory text about the rest of the 1999 code check out Volume 2, which is available from his web site, www.NECCode.com. I have many books on the NEC code, including the Delmar series by Mullins and other authors. Those are good thorough treatments for a beginning apprenticeship class, and Mike has written in-depth (and lengthy) treatments of code specifics, if that is what you want. But this book, "Understanding the National Electric Code" is simply the best general text out there; the illustrations on each page are worth the entire price. If you read it, and review the summaries and questions in it, you will be current through 1999 and readily able to apply the Code or take a test about it.

The National Electrical Code (NEC) states that it is not intended as a design specification nor an instruction manual for untrained persons (90-1(c)). The code authors understood that training and reference books would be essential for a clear grasp of the meaning of the NEC. The book "Understanding the NEC" by Mike Holt is one such book which can help in the study of the NEC. The first four chapters of the NEC are intended to apply "generally" to the majority of the installations that the electrician makes daily. It is the first four chapters of the NEC which are the scope for this book by Holt. The "Nuts and Bolts" type of installations that we encounter daily are what this book is made of. Holt provides clear explanations and very helpful illustrations to explain the topics that are not always made clear in the NEC.

As an instructor in a post secondary technical school, I have used the 1996 version of this book in my Associate's Degree level classes since it became available. I have found this book to be very informative and clearly written for use by students with little or no field experience, including very helpful illustrations. There is also a workbook available that enhances the use of this text for use in a classroom setting, or for the individual who wishes a more extensive study of the NEC's "Nuts and Bolts".

An awesome read.

A very inspiring, staight to the point, excellently formatted, and easy to read and very uplifting book.

This book is filled with great advise and lots of excellent uplifting quotes.

This book contains much of the same information (but not nearly the same amount of information, or the broad area of topics) as you would find in Tony Robbins' Awaken The Giant Within, but in a very pithy, consise and easily readable format.

There are many awesome quotes throughout the book that are set apart from the main text that you can read during an overview/preview/review.

"Optimistic people have high degrees of self-responsibility."

Consise, pithy, poignant, easily readable and very practicle and relevent. This book is very enjoying to read.

One of the best books I have read. One of the best self-help books I have ever read. I's right up there with the very best of them, i.e. "Think and Grow Rich," "Awaken the Giant Within" and others.

This tape, and the authors' book, is one of the few self-help books I read that gives advise that is not fluff. It offers practical and unique ways to make your mood and life improved. I thank them both.

Sponteneous Optimism is a well-written inspiration. The authors of this book put together easy to do tips and techniques that has taken my life to a better place. I've recommended it alot.

This is cerainly one of the most poorly written engineering text books I have ever had the displeasure of useing. It is greatly lacking in any sort of detail required for advanced study, is lacking in useful examples, and at times it almost seems as though Siebert is intentionally using unclear languange in order to confuse the reader as much as possible. I would highly recommend Oppenheim and Willsky's book Signals and Systems for a much more through and well presented treatment of the material, coupled with any of the many good EE textbooks if you are combining your study of signals with circuits.

Siebert is the ONLY circuits text in print, that I have found,
that stesses signals/systems concepts and is directed to real
BS degree candidates. The problems are informative, challenging,
and puts EE students on the path to becoming real, thinking,
contributing engineers. Quite contrary to ALL of the other
undergraduate texts that come out in an even lower, more
insultingly watered-down version every two years, Siebert gets
BETTER every year, if only by comparison. I love the way it
uses the prerequisite differential equations course; without which electric circuits cannot and do not exist. Students should
find it a fun book to read; full of insight and EE applications.

I can understand why some people don't like the book. It is brief and odd. However, it is one my favorite books in recent years. It covers lots of things in essence in 600+ pages in a cohesive, well structured manner.

In many detailed textbooks, the authors would adopt a non-rigorous way of arriving at concepts, which was easy to read, but not the method they themselves would use in a paper. When we go to grad school, many of us are surprised by the different derivation methods used for the same idea.

In this book, it never tried to say "hey, read me and you will understand everything." It says "read me, and you have nothing to lose and may even gain something." Reading this book probably brings you closer to how a good engineer/scientist thinks rather than what an author wants you to think, as in other books.

The thoughts are well developed. It is a joy to read if you start from page 1 slowly. This is the kind of book you want to have on a deserted island, not something to read the night before an exam or while stuck by a problem. Not enough detials for exams or lab, but enough to open your eyes. In my personal opinion, unless you are outrageously smart, this is the kind of books that can rescue you from being just another average engineer.

The author talks of electromagnetics but he barely touches on how they work, he just talks of the concepts and future possibilities. He should rewrite it for us "Dumber" readers.

This text sits midway in difficulty between a first year physics treatment of E&M and more advanced texts like Lorrain and Carson's Electromagnetic Fields and Waves and Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics. Dr. Rojansky argues that most students require a patient, careful discussion of fundamentals before undertaking advanced studies. His book moves at a leisurely pace, sytematically laying down a solid foundation. However, unlike many first year physics texts, he assumes that the reader is familiar with integration methods and partial differentiation. He does devote a few chapters to reviewing fundamentals that will be useful later - curves and surfaces, solid angles, Taylor's Theorem in three dimensions, vector fields, cylindrical and spherical coordinates.

Somewhat early Rojansky introduces a simple physical model, a copper block with a cylindrical hole, and then frequently revisits this model to address increasingly complex problems. It proves to be an effective way to link more advanced sections to earlier lessons.

During new derivations, references are often made to earlier derivations and results (by equation and section number). I had to stop, thumb back to earlier sections to find a result, and then move back to the derivation at hand. Rojansky's text is not unique in this respect, but at times I did find it annoying.

Rojansky assumes that the reader works most exercises (or at least thinks seriously about them) and should you fail to do so, you could find yourself returning to earlier sections for review. The problems are not overly difficult and useful hints are provided. Answers are not provided and it may be helpful to refer to a general problem set (like Schaum's).

Rojansky limits his text to electrostatic fields and magnetically induced electric fields, to isotropic media, and to macroscopic phenomena. Nevertheless, despite the leisurely approach and avoidance of electrodynamics, this book is not an entirely easy read. Maxwell's equations do emerge and more difficult chapters address topics like integrating delta functions, solving Laplace's equations, and investigating plane electromagnetic waves, antenna radiation, and wave guides. As with most Dover reprints, this book is a good buy. I give it a solid four stars.

Thoroughly enjoyable, patiently explaining most of the mathematical concepts. This is the clearest and most accessible exposition of Maxwell's eqns I have seen.

This book provides an essential link between the theory and application of analyzing switching power convertors. The book presents methods and techniques of analysis using modern software tools. Analysis is an essential part of designing high reliability power convertors, and this book provides the necessary analytical tools to accomplish the job. A must have reference for the detailed designer.

The authur has come up with unique methods of analyzing converters in their close loop form. He presents actual design examples showing both theoretical and measured results for several key topologies. In addition, he discusses filter design, series pass regulators, methods of converter control and finally methods of modeling and simulation. I would highly recommend this book as a reference for the advanced designer.

I truly believe that this book is bringing good engineering approach to dc-dc converters. I personally have read a lot of diffrent books on this subject but I found this book to be both acadamic and practical. It goes through specifics without unnecessary details. Although this is not a cook book but If you are interested in the subject of power conversion, I recommend to have this book in your library. You will find it useful.

I liked the book for what it did cover but, when the title includes "ATM, IP, Frame Relay, and SMDS explained" I expected the authors to give more than a 50,000 foot overview. The book fell horribly short of the mark especially with respect to IP. IP wasn't even mentioned more than six times in the whole text. If you are looking for an overview of networking technologies this book is "ok" but , if you are looking for a book that explains the technoligies listed in the title this is not it!

Nice & basic, but needs to expand on WAE as it relates to ATM. The evolution of the net will use hodge-podge connections, but there is little doubt that consumers are pushing for "roving" wireless net connections -- which I think will still use ATM @ some "point". The question is, is that ATM point going to grow as a result of consumer mobility? Anyone know of another book (or info) on how to view this from a different viewpoint?

The book has three main sections. One explains network technologies like IP and ATM. The next tells you where they fit into the real world and the third illustrates it.

The style is really nice. It is easy to read, even when some difficult things are being explained. There is plenty of good advice and sharp observation throughout.

Overall, it is a good read and a useful book to have close by. I work with a lot of telecomms people and it has done a lot for my credibility.