Mehdi Rahmani-Andebili - Advanced Electrical Circuit Analysis: Practice Problems, Methods, and Solutions

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Electrical circuit analysis is one of the most fundamental subjects of electrical engineering major. This textbook includes the advanced subjects of electrical circuit analysis that have not been covered in the previously published textbooks, that is, DC Electrical Circuit Analysis and AC Electrical Circuit Analysis. The subjects include state equations of electrical circuits, Laplace transform and network function, natural frequencies of electrical circuits, network theorems (Tellegens and linear time-invariant network theorems), and two-port networks.

Like the previously published textbooks, this textbook includes very detailed and multiple methods of problem solutions. It can be used as a practicing textbook by students and as a supplementary teaching source by instructors.

To help students study the textbook in the most efficient way, the exercises have been categorized in nine different levels. In this regard, for each problem of the textbook, a difficulty level (easy, normal, or hard) and a calculation amount (small, normal, or large) have been assigned. Moreover, in each chapter, problems have been ordered from the easiest problem with the smallest calculations to the most difficult problem with the largest calculations. Therefore, students are advised to study the textbook from the easiest problems and continue practicing till they reach the normal and then the hardest ones. On the other hand, this classification can help instructors choose their desirable problems to conduct a quiz or a test. Moreover, the classification of computation amount can help students manage their time during future exams and instructors give the appropriate problems based on the exam duration.

Since the problems have very detailed solutions and some of them include multiple methods of solution, the textbook can be useful for the under-prepared students. In addition, the textbook is beneficial for knowledgeable students because it includes advanced exercises.

In the preparation of problem solutions, an attempt has been made to use typical methods of electrical circuit analysis to present the textbook as an instructor-recommended one. In other words, the heuristic methods of problem solution have never been used as the first method of problem solution. By considering this key point, the textbook will be in the direction of instructors lectures, and the instructors will not see any untaught problem solutions in their students answer sheets.

The Iranian University Entrance Exam for the masters and PhD degrees of electrical engineering major is the main reference of the textbook; however, all the problem solutions have been provided by me. The Iranian University Entrance Exam is one of the most competitive university entrance exams in the world that allows only 10% of the applicants to get into prestigious and tuition-free Iranian universities.