JosephKK
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Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:35 am Post subject:
Re: EE Professors -- Textbook recommendation needed, please! |
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Steven O. wrote:
| Quote: | Background: I am posting this inquiry on behalf of a slightly
overworked EE professor at the local community college. I am
currently taking a distance learning class on circuit fundamentals,
and the professor is planning to offer a distance learning class on
basic transistor and amplifier theory in the near future -- as soon as
this Spring, if possible. Among the holdups is that she needs to find
the right textbook, ASAP. (And for my part, I am hoping to take the
class this Spring, which is why I am helping her in her textbook
hunt!)
Obviously, she needs a decent textbook in basic transistor and
amplifier theory, something at roughly the level of "Electronic
Devices" by Floyd (Prentice Hall).
The kicker, however, is this: The way she runs her distance learning
classes, she wants to be able to give her students fairly detailed
solutions to all the homework problems, and she doesn't always have
time to work out all those solutions herself (she is running multiple
distance learning classes). Therefore -- she needs a textbook where
the publisher will provide, to faculty members, detailed, worked
solutions to the homework problems in the text, preferably in
electronic form (such as .pdf), so she can send these solutions out to
the students.
The way my current class is working is, we first try to work the
homework problems on our own; but then compare our own efforts to the
solved solutions (sorry, I guess that phrasing is redundant), both so
we can see if we've done it correctly; and so if we have not done the
problem correctly, we can learn how to do it right. For this class on
circuits, we are using "Engineering Circuit Analysis" by Hayt, and
apparently they do provide her with the solutions in .pdf form, so she
can send them to us. Apparently, she has so far been unable to find a
similar text for transistor theory and applications.
I've checked the Web site for "Electronic Devices" by Floyd myself --
I happened to pick up the text a few years ago -- and I cannot tell
from that site whether or not the publisher provides detailed
solutions for the HW problems at all, let alone provides them in .pdf
format or similar.
Anyway, bottom line: I (we, actually) appreciate any recommendation
for a good sophomore/junior level textbook on transistor theory/basic
applications, plus appropriate related topics -- basics of op-amps,
oscillators, you probably know what else applies -- where the
publisher will provide, to the instructor, .pdf or similar files with
detailed, worked-out solutions to the homework problems presented in
the textbook.
Please be kind enough to send leads my way, via this newsgroup or the
e-mail (slightly mangled, below), and I will forward them to the
professor.
Thanks!
Steve O.
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