The book starts a textbook for a first course on Electric Circuits dedicated to electrical and computer engineers. But as it is developed chapter after chapter the final result is pointing toward a specialized course of Circuits Analysis dedicated to electronic and telecommunication engineers. This conclusion arises from the aspects presented in the following lines. A lot of subchapters and applications interesting electronic and telecommunication engineers such as: ‒ Subchapter 13.10 with 13.10.1 Power transfer efficiency; 13.10.3 Insertion loss; ‒ Subchapter 13.11 Impedance matching; ‒ Subchapter 13.9 Superposition of Complex powers (of different frequencies); ‒ Subchapter 12.21 Simulating inductances using active RC circuits; ‒ Subchapter12.22 Attention paid to circuit components R.L.C due to high frequency; ‒ Presentation of Chocks, baluns and so on as circuit components. Moreover an important chapter for electrical engineers dealing with Magnetic Circuits and the properties of Ferromagnetic materials is missing. A great attention is paid to the relation between excitation and response in electric circuits and the design details enabling the desired response (a very important aspect for electronic circuits). Two port models are carefully treated (chapter 5). Two chapters are dedicated to operational amplifiers (7 and 17) and s-Domain models for operational amplifiers are presented in 18. Chapter 19 is presenting Active Filters for Telecommunications. There are the following chapters common to electrical engineers, too: Chapter 2 Current, Voltage; Chapter 3 Circuit Elements, Diagrams and Kirchhoff’s Laws; Chapter 4 Equivalent Circuits; Chapter 5 Work and Power; Chapter 8 Capacitance; Chapter 9 Inductance; Chapter 11 Transient Analysis; Chapter 12 Sinusoids, Phasors and Impedance; Chapter 13 Complex Power; Chapter 14 Three phase Circuits. As the book intends to be self sufficient (no references) it develops chapters of Mats used in electric circuits such us chapter 10 Complex Arithmetic and Algebra; Chapter 16 Fourier Series; Chapter 18 Laplace Transformation. The book contains more than 800 examples and 1100 problems. It offers 757 pages of dense learning material, exceeding the capability of a sophomore undergraduate student. Consequently remains the teacher’s duty to carefully choose the lessons content.
Reviewer: Eleonor Ciurea (Braşov)