What university electrical engineering textbooks to order ? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / beginners

author: lordvader88
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2019, 04:22:21 am
content: I'm not in school, but I know most of the 1st/2nd year math for EE. So I'm looking for used textbooks. I found 3, +800 page, EE hardcover textbooks, from the 1990's for dirt cheap, they probably cover almost the exact same stuff, for 1st/2nd year topics. However reading reviews, they might not be much good for self-teaching, they don't have answers at the back, and the example problems are simple cases, and not enough explaining is done of where stuff actually comes from. They arehttps://www.amazon.ca/Introduction-Electrical-Engineering-David-Irwin/dp/0023599308https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/0023493313/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vwpw_taft_p1_i4https://www.amazon.ca/Introduction-Electrical-Engineering-Clayton-Paul/dp/007011322XMaybe most university textbooks are like that ?? Plenty of graduate level non-textbooks at the library certainly fit that description, and they frustrate me. Unlike my 1st year university calculus, ODE, physics textbooks, which are great overall.Any recommended titles, that's full of derivations, examples, and problem/solutions, and not $200 ?Some textbooks are such a racket and scam, no wonder students can't afford anything.

author: radiolistener
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2019, 04:51:27 am
content: Do you interested in some specific knowledge or just some students related talks?Look at this one:https://textbooks.elsevier.com/web/product_details.aspx?isbn=9780123944245&Search=9780123944245&SearchCr

author: rstofer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2019, 05:19:50 am
content: You may find this book (free PDF) useful. It is intended for use with MATLAB but will likely work Octave just as well:http://www.ee.hacettepe.edu.tr/~solen/Matlab/MatLab/Matlab%20-%20Electronics%20and%20Circuit%20Analysis%20using%20Matlab.pdfI would think that for beginning circuit analysis, having a matrix solver would be useful. It gets cumbersome trying to solve 5x5 matrices even if they are sparse.

author: sward
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: April 04, 2019, 05:24:20 am
content: At my university, we make quite a bit of the book Microelectronic Circuits by Sedra and Smith.It's written at a very reasonable level and covers a wide range of topics.The other books we use are pretty specific to their respective topics, such as control systems or fabrication.

author: beanflying
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2019, 07:54:52 am
content: Quote from: sward on April 04, 2019, 05:24:20 amStill in use wow. It was one of my texts over 30 years ago. Is it a revised text or still original?

author: alex.martinez
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2019, 11:42:32 am
content: Quote from: sward on April 04, 2019, 05:24:20 amGood ol' Sedra. Every single subject I have taken related to circuits posts that book in there references. I have passed through my bachelor degree without buying a single book/ebook. You can find pretty much all of them on the internet for free. The most important of them being the Sedra, Oppenheim and many others.

author: lordvader88
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2019, 05:45:33 pm
content: I have a bunch of PDF books, and course material. But it would be nice to have it all in a physical, real textbook, all in 1 place.Do they have answers in the Microelectronics book ? I was about to order "Schaum's Outline of Basic Circuit Analysis" tomorrow, that's full of worked problems, but I found it free online too.http://eng.harran.edu.tr/~msuzer/files/edt/edt.pdf

author: TimNJ
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2019, 07:16:14 pm
content: I think Sedra/Smith is an excellent book, but it is very in depth, and fairly math heavy. This is a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it contains basically everything you'd ever want to know about circuits, but on the other hand, it can be difficult to translate to real-world application.At least, that's my experiences with it.

author: MarkF
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2019, 07:28:59 pm
content: Quote from: sward on April 04, 2019, 05:24:20 amAvailable for download:http://fuuu.be/polytech/ELECH402/Microelectronic%20Circuits%20by%20Sedra%20Smith,5th%20edition.pdf

author: trophosphere
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 04, 2019, 10:43:51 pm
content: One college book that I've always kept around is Computer Organization and Design by Patterson and Hennessy. The way the topics are addressed makes the material very straight-forward to understand if you are interested in computer architecture. There are different versions of the book depending on what what processor model you want to learn about:MIPS,ARM, orRISC-V.

author: sward
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: April 05, 2019, 04:11:45 am
content: Quote from: lordvader88 on April 04, 2019, 05:45:33 pmThe solutions to the examples are in it, but not to the other problems. However, you can get the solution manual (got mine from Chegg). Tons of great problems to solve.Another book I thought of that might be of interest is "Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis", by J. David Irwin and R. Mark Nelms (11th edition is what I have). It's probably a bit more simple of an approach and not as involved as S&S (and with fewer topics), but well done and with plenty of examples. There are some "Learning Assessment" problems that give the final answers (but not the solution path), examples with full solutions, and end-of-chapter problems (like S&S, without solutions but available elsewhere such as Chegg).We used Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis for pre-Electronics mostly, and S&S for Electronics I and II (just completed in the fall).

author: dsegel
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2019, 05:11:58 pm
content: You can find the 7th edition of the Sedra book online as well, but I'm not sure if it's been legally posted so I'm not going to provide a link here.

author: Mattjd
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2019, 06:35:25 pm
content: I own this textbook. i suggest it. I bought it like $5. There are other sellers who are selling much much lower than amazon is asking.https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8123914105/ref=oh_aui_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1