Emphasize the Relationship between Conceptual Understanding and Problem Solving Approaches Chapter Problems: Problem solving is fundamental to the study of circuit analysis. Having a wealth of problems to assign and work is a key to success in any circuits course. Users of Electric Circuits have consistently rated the Chapter Problems as one of the book''s most attractive features. NEW! Existing end-of-chapter problems are revised, and new end-of-chapter problems are included. As a result, more than 40% of the problems in the tenth edition have never appeared in any previous edition of the text. Practical Perspectives: Practical Perspectives are introduced with the chapter openers. They offer examples of real-world circuits, taken from real-world devices to illustrate how the generalized techniques presented in a first-year circuit analysis course relate to problems faced by practicing engineers. Every chapter begins with a brief description of a practical application of the material that follows.
Once the chapter material is presented, the chapter concludes with a quantitative analysis of the Practical Perspective application. A group of end-of-chapter problems directly relates to the Practical Perspective application. Solving some of these problems enables students to understand how to apply the chapter contents to the solution of a real-world problem. NEW! New Practical Perspective problems are included for Chapters 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and 10. Many of the new problems represent the world of the 21st century. Each Practical Perspective problem is solved, at least in part, at the end of the chapter, and additional end-of-chapter problems can be assigned to allow students to explore the Practical Perspective topic further. Build an Understanding of Concepts and Ideas Explicitly in Terms of Previous Learning Assessment Problems: Each chapter begins with a set of chapter objectives. At key points in the chapter, students are asked to stop and assess their mastery of a particular objective by solving one or more assessment problems.
The answers to all of the assessment problems are given at the conclusion of each problem, so students can check their work. If they are able to solve the assessment problems for a given objective, they have mastered that objective. If they need more practice, several end-of-chapter problems that relate to the objective are suggested at the conclusion of the assessment problems. Fundamental Equations and Concepts: Throughout the text, there are fundamental equations and concepts set apart from the main text. This is done to help students focus on some of the key principles in electric circuits and to help them navigate through the important topics. PowerPoint Presentations: Instructors and students benefit greatly from thoughtful methods of assessing student learning. PowerPoint presentations are available to instructors that include embedded assessment questions. During a lecture, the instructor can present material using PowerPoint, pose a question to the students concerning that material, and allow students to respond to the question.
Results from student responses are immediately available to the instructor, providing real time information about the students'' comprehension of the material. This immediate feedback allows the instructor to go back and revisit material the students did not comprehend, or to continue presenting new material if comprehension is satisfactory. Provide Students with a Strong Foundation of Engineering Practices Examples: Every chapter includes many examples that illustrate the concepts presented in the text in the form of a numeric example. There are nearly 150 examples in this text. The examples are intended to illustrate the application of a particular concept, and also to encourage good problem-solving skills. Integration of Computer Tools: Computer tools can assist students in the learning process by providing a visual representation of a circuit''s behavior, validating a calculated solution, reducing the computational burden of more complex circuits, and iterating toward a desired solution using parameter variation. This computational support is often invaluable in the design process. The tenth edition includes the support of PSpice® and MultiSim®, both popular computer tools for circuit simulation and analysis.
Chapter problems suited for exploration with PSpice and MultiSim are marked accordingly. Students and instructors can choose from two optional separate circuit-simulation manuals--PSpice, or MultiSim. Each manual presents the simulation material in the same order as the material is presented in the text. UPDATED! The PSpice and Multisim manuals are revised to include screenshots from the most recent versions of these software simulation applications. UPDATED! Student Workbook: Students who could benefit from additional examples and practice problems can use the Student Workbook, which is revised to reflect changes to the tenth edition of the text. This workbook has examples and problems covering the following material: balancing power, simple resistive circuits, node voltage method, mesh current method, Thévenin and Norton equivalents, op amp circuits, first-order circuits, second-order circuits, AC steady-state analysis, and Laplace transform circuit analysis. The Student Workbook now includes access to Video Solutions. Video Solutions: Every new copy of the book comes with access to Video Solutions.
Video solutions are complete, step-by-step solution walkthroughs of representative homework problems.