electricity

Ok I'll be the first to admit it, I'm a sucker for the best!!!!! Yea that's right, I drive a Mercedes, I live in a million dollar estate, I wear only custom italian suits. Hey if you got it, you might as well have the best....Am I right, or am I right?? You betcha!!! Ok, so I figure what the h-e-double hockey sticks......$700+ for a book, it's got to be only the highest quality so I ordered it on Amazon.com. I bet it's a hum dinger of a read is what I thought to myself. Well guess what gang, even I make mistakes sometimes and this book may have been one the most boring books I ever read. The only reason I stuck with it was because it was so much moolah, that even with the deal my local half price bookstore would strike with me, I would still be down the better part of 5 bills. NO THANK YOU! I'll keep this one. In fact, maybe I'll even read it again......it can't be any more boring the second time around, that's for sure. My advice.....wait for the paperback and run, don't walk to your local half price bookstore. The book may be oh so lame, but you'll undoubtedly get yourself one heckuva bargain! And that's enough to put a smile on any bibliophiles face. Ride safe-keep the rubber side down, and I'll see you at Sturgis!!

This book has many, MANY errors in symbols, numbers, equations, and results. Although this is a first edition, the work is nearly impossible to reproduce and check with this reference alone. Many of the functions and coefficients necessary to create a simulation are not listed.

I would recommend looking for a similar, more complete reference if you want to build your own simulation. I find it very peculiar how many mistakes there are in this book with a listing of five authors and about nine editors.

I find this book a complete waste of money. The book is very difficult to read and understand. Further more, the book is very inaccurate. The Erta Page for this book is large. I've found cheaper books which is a lot easier to understand and more correct for cheaper prices. Save your money.

I am an electronics engineering student, and this book is, quite frankly, terrible. I'm being generous there. The concepts are abstract, the jokes are bland, and the online errata pages near the size of the chapters they cover. I think that other books treating the material in Electric Circuits as a first chapter review do a better job than Balabanian does in his entire book. Quite frankly, if this book didn't cost me so much money, I would have thrown it out after I did not need it anymore to look-up homework questions.

I was forced to use this book as part of an introductory circuits course, and it is, by far, the worst textbook I've ever encountered. Although Balabanian covers all of the topics necessary, he covers them as if he were being paid $100 for each unnecessary word used. The examples in his book are riddled with errors, and his occasional attempts at humour are simply pathetic. No matter what other Electric Circuits book you buy, it WILL BE BETTER than this one.

This book is absolutely horrible. The Professor who teaches this class with this book HE WROTE, is utterly dispicible because of his teaching ability. This professor, at UC Irvine does not know the one bit in teaching a COMPLICATED subject like Digital Systems to a class who has had little to no experiece with this type of work. I hope this book is revoked for any reason, and hope that professor reads this review in order to gain some knowledge about the way he is teaching a class of Engineers in an era where knowledge is not automatically achieved, rather taught by knowledgable instructors.

I used this book for an introductory logic design class. I was able to learn from it, but it was difficult. The teacher didn't even use it much. The book was not well written and hard to understand. I recommend learning from another book.

I began learning about hardware design with this book. Now I use it for reference.

But for beginners, this is not a very good book. Although hardware design is somewhat difficult to explain, the book does not analyze subjects in detail or how circuits work. When it does try to explain topics, it does not do so clearly and provides few examples. Unless you have outside help (such as a teacher, professor, teaching assistant, etc.), I would definitely recommend finding another book to learn about hardware design because you will struggle while trying to figure out how things work (if you are a novice).

We used this text in an introductory solid state course. Overall, it seems that the text is far too brief and doesn't thoroughly explain the material enough for an introductory course. There are very few examples/applications. The problems in the chapter require research outside of what is in the text. It leaves out a lot of important details. I would really suggest looking elsewhere for a good solid state introduction.

I used this book in a course which was supposed to be an introduction to solid state. Know some basic ideas in crystal structure, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, advanced and partial differential equations and Fourier anlysis and then you'll begin to be ready to understand this text. Kittel's Solid State text is slightly more helpful (but only slightly). The book is completely devoid of examples, yet there are sections at the end of each chapter involving current applications and experiments in condensed matter physics and materials science. Exercises require a leap of understanding from the contents of the chapter before them. Some experience with a computer language may also be necessary. I wouldn't recommend this book for most undergrads.

You know there may be a slight problem when you find large numbers of punctuation and grammatical errors early in a big book sold at this price. When you more than once find two or three contributors' articles rehashing the same material (but using slightly different "standard" diagram symbols), your reservations about the editorial standards involved increase. Learning half a dozen different ways to control blenders and hair clippers, when you were thinking more of 13.8 KV switchgear, is a further awkward twist. Want a sampling of makes, models and photos? Forget it. I do hope you want to take Electric Motors 101 several times, though. (I didn't even think it was ABOUT motors when I bought it!)

So anyway, I was pretty bummed, and I wouldn't have shelled out for it, I don't think. I'm keeping it around, though. I did come across some nice tables, and it has an index. There's also one, slpendid, nuts, bolts and numbers article on coordinating overcurrent protection. I mean, this guy does this to relax! They should have put it in a small book and charged [less] for it. (It would take up less room and be lighter to hold.) Some people could also find a use for the breakdown torques of induction and synchronous motors, etc. (I'd let them add that to the small book), but there's just too much disorganization and fat.

I would speculate that one way to make a living is to hustle articles from eager contributors into a "big, expensive book", kick back and enjoy the margin. I for one will keep this in mind while shopping in future.

The book is less about switchgear and more about the broad field of electrical engineering. It gets so far off track that it even has diagrams of resistor-diode logic circuits. It covers far too many topics in very little detail. For example, from the title I expected more than four very short paragraphs on current transformer burden. My initial disappointment told me to return the book; but I have a hard time letting go of any book with any use, even if I paid too much.

The book is practically useless and intellectually void. You are supposed to be in possesion of a kit of materials that is not described and there is no indication that it can be acquired anywhere. The only thing that results clear is the presumption and feeblemindedness of the authors and the greed of the publisher. The price is ludicrous for such a notebook. The preceding "Editorial review" is untruthful.

This book was designed to be used in conjunction with the intensive introductory hysics courses at MIT and Caltech. At these schools, the kit with all the parts for the lab is supplied by the instructor. Of course, if you are anyone except a student at MIT or Caltech, thi list is unavailable to you and the book will be quite confusing... not that it is any less confusing if you have the parts. While there is a lot to be learned in this small text, there has got to be a less painful way. This one book alone has caused more sleep loss among freshman than anything else I can think of.

The tedious repititions and the incomprehensible garrulousness makes this book what it is. It took the entire chapter of THIRTY FIVE pages to explain simple relations between voltage, current, and resistance.

The book is simply a random cacophony of words and diagrams. It is incoherrent with absolutely no order and random pieces of information are spread throughout its entirety of 1008 pages. The information you need for problems of the first chapter aren't covered until chapter two, several examples hardly relate to what's going on in the chapter.

You'd be better off learning the things covered in this course...

I have taken two semesters of classes using this text, and I have to say that the book is largely non conducive to learning circuits. The chapters in the book seem to have no grand direction that ties all the specific details together. Also, the examples are not helpful in understanding the concepts of circuit analysis or in completing the homework problems at the end of the chapters. I would recommend working with the Schaum's guide to Electric Circuits, it is much more concise and effective in its teaching.

I wish I had this book when I was studying EE some years back. It is by far the best and most solid introduction to electric circuits I have ever seen. It goes the extra mile to strengthen the reader's foundation in circuits, even in things which may seem trivial or unnecessary to some people (e.g. meticulous attention to passive versus active sign conventions). The explanations are clear, precise, and unambiguous. The breadth of topics is commendable. It is well balanced, e.g., it is up to date on computational techniques (MATLAB and Spice), yet does not weaken its presentation of traditional circuit principles. The book is attractive, the print is sharp, the two-tone diagrams look professional. The CD contains real stuff, including a Laboratory Manual and additional MATLAB problems.

To some people, the extra care taken to explain things (especially in chapter one) may make the book seem wordy. This probably accounts for the low ratings given by my fellow Amazon reviewers who seem to prefer a more concise approach.

A good supplement to this book is Schaum's Electric Circuits, which covers the same topics but does not go as deep as DeCarlo and Lin. If you go through both books from cover to cover, I am confident you will gain a strong foundation for further studies. This is vital because a weak or incomplete foundation in circuit theory is perhaps the MAIN cause of difficulties that people encounter in their future engineering studies or engineering practice.

I'm a computer engineering student and have been studying this book for 3 months and I've concluded that it's impossble to learn from. In almost all of the examples, the author skip steps that are vital for students who have never analyzed circuits in such detail before. The reading is difficult to understand, even after reading each chapter two or three times. It's as if the authors wrote this text to impress their colleages. I'm fortunate that my professor explains the material faily well. I'm definitely going to sell this book back at the end of the semister and use the money to invest in a useful circuits text. I highly recommend you do not buy this book, I wish I never did.

Take my suggestion: "Don't ever buy this book". I am a second year student and my school use this book as a text for Introduction to EE. Since my instructor is so bad in explanation, at the very beginning, I thought, I could rely on this text for understanding. I HAVE READ EVERY SINGLE WORD IN THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS AND REPEATED SO MANY TIMES AND STILL, I DON'T COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THINGS. Very vey hard to follow. If you don't believe what I said, read it yourself before buying it.

This book is extremly difficult to learn from. The material that is covered is not explained very well for someone just starting out. There may be one of two reasons for this, either the authors know the subject matter so well they lost touch with the basics or they more or less wrote the book to impress their peers.

I think this book is not good at all. The accompaing software is useless. There is many books more valuable like Faud from IAWA ..

Actually this is not a good book at all. It waste me 2 hours try to find any thing useful. I want to ask the author :
1- Did you have any time to correct all these typing errors in equations especially chapter 4.
2- Why you do not respond to any emails , why you did not write corrections on your homepage??
3- What do you think about this is useless program accompained with the book.
4-Is only money or you need to make a book make you waste your and our time . Did you read stevenson and Faud from 1979. If you read it you would not make this book ?
At last, this book has no new no benfit i am really upset , you can buy this very good book instead :
Dynamic Simulation of Electric Machinery : Using Matlab/Simulink
also i recommend:
Power Systems Analysis
by Vijay Vittal, Arthur R. Bergen

I just bought this book in a hurry. I do not recommend this book for anyone doctor , sudent or a child. it is only contains the same equations from 1940s in the four chapters. Then some 1960s in chapter five and six . I laughed when i read chapter 8 because the author thinks he is in a paper not a book or he may just copy some papers from his old ones -:) . The last cry i have it when i see the program accompained with the book it really herts me it is just a program may anyone in the 3rd year can do it. So as it is a secret the author provided the program as exe file. I think it is not a good idea to buy this book and if you still want this book i can give you it for only one dollar OBO.