electricity

This book did not serve its price for a couple of reasons. First, the application to power systems, which the book is about, is poor and insufficient. Second, the book discusses results without showing how the problem is formulated, or how automatic learning technique is applied to the problem.

There is really "no beef" in the book. A small tiny book with 4 cm margin from the bottom, many blank counted pages. Some chapters constitute of only four pages. The application in power systems is not sufficient and very week. I would like the author to revise it and bring a better a book. I am disappointed when I bought this book.

This book is hard to read. Its objective is not defined. It covers many topics without discussing the contents in any details.

This book is not organized well and It's copying it's chapter from the many books example of this is: 1- Arthur r. Bergen, and Vijay Vittal," Power system analysis", prentic hall 2- Fouad, A.A, and Vittal, " Power system transient stability analysis using the energy function", prentic hall 1992. The book also contains too much eerors. And the problem at the end of the book is not related to the book itself.

For the price I think that the publisher/editor would have discovered missing figures and typo errors in formulas used and explained. For example no anwers when using a formula, typing R1 in a circuit as R!. The list goes on and on. It made reading very discouraging. If they had discovered and fix those errors Then the staR rating woUld have beEn hi-er. You know what I mean.

I purchased this book thinking it to be a summary of distribution technology for power distribution companies. Instead I found an overly broad survey that tried to cover the distribution process starting with power production and extending to home wiring. I felt that much of this material, particularly that relating to distribution within a building, could have been dropped, while the treatment of power distribution by power companies was insufficiently treated. There was evidence of sloppy proofreading, particularly in the equations. This was not isolated to one area but rather a recurring problem. I feel that a top dollar textbook should have few if any glaring errors; their presence alone is enough to justify a new edition. I was caught off guard because usually Prentice Hall will not put their name on material of this quality. There is an assertion on the back cover that the book would be useful as a desk reference to a working engineer. I find that hard to believe given the superficial treatment of the subject.

This book is confusing to reader and of dubious value to an electrical engineer. It appears to have been written to satisfy some academic publish or perish requirement.

This book offers a very incomplete and confusing description of all the subject material contained in it. I would strongly urge people NOT to buy this book.

If you are looking for a book to learn how to design electrical machines i.e. DC,AC,multiphase etc. do not buy this book. The book comes with a full errata sheet but by just flipping through the pages many spelling errors can easily seen. Studying the vector graphs and equations also shows many errors in the labeling and derivations...

The title indicates a workbook with math problems related to electronics or electricity but the book does not contain any. The only electronics related information is how to read an analog Multimeter when measuring voltage, resistance and current. The book was of no use to me.

I just began reading this book, reviewing some of the things I learned way back in High School in the '70s. I selected this one of several popular "coffee-table" texts, because, at a glance, it appeared to be really focused on the physics behind electricity.

When I reached page 13, however, I was thoroughly amazed to find that Ralph Morrison, who is supposed to be this hot-shot electronics engineer, has made some very serious errors in his presentation. For instance, he incorrectly identifies the unit of force in the metric system as the kilogram. Now, we all understand that unit to denote mass. The unit of force in the metric system (which high-scool Physics texts call the "MKS system," as opposed to the "CGS system," also metric, but useful for denoting smaller quantities) is, actually, the Newton. He then uses this bit of bad Physics to make more, by deriving the dimensions of the Joule as "kilogram-meters." Where he does make mention of "mass" and "acceleration" in his example about the work done lifting a body in a gravitational field, he supplies the variables "m" and "g" but, they are dimensionless. These are the same sorts of mistakes that beginning students make when they fail to understand that "weight" is a FORCE, not a measurement of mass. The weight of, say a brick, is not measured in kilograms. It's measured in Newtons.

These errors are absolutely critical when they appear in any discussion of field theory.

Because I do remember somthing about High-School Physics, I have been able to read this text and understand what the author is driving at; I have been able to accomplish this only by second-guessing the text at each step. I don't believe that a true beginner to this subject would be so lucky.

This book is total garbage. I have a BS in EE and wanted to learn more about switching power supply design. This book is useless. Instead of explaining the general operation of boost and buck converters with english words, Krein uses these convoluted switching matrices. It's like the following: here's a circuit, and here's its switching matrix, on to the next cicuit. Not insightful in the least bit. He should spend more time explaining with English words what is going on in a circuit instead of just throwing a uninsighful matrix at you. It's a typical professor/academic book: too many irrelevant details and not enough on the basics.

This book is too technical and is really a reference code book.