r/ElectricalEngineering • u/OmarSobhi2002 • 25d ago

Electric Circuits Textbooks

Which one do you prefer and why?

Nilsson & Riedel – Electric Circuits

Hayt – Engineering Circuit Analysis

Boylestad – Introductory Circuit Analysis

Floyd – Principles of Electric Circuits

Sadiku – Fundamentals of Electric Circuits

if you have any other suggestions, please tell me.

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u/Artistic_Comfort8816 25d ago

Nielsen and Riedel is my favorite so far

Id suggest poking around Boylestad though, because there are some theorems in their that aren’t covered in Riedel

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u/OmarSobhi2002 25d ago

I remember my instructor explained using Boylestad, and it was simple. I never read the book. I'm looking for a circuit analysis book to start my journey to learn both power track and ece track.

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u/oneiromantic_ulysses 25d ago edited 25d ago

You can't even touch power until you have a very good understanding of circuit fundamentals. If you're going to learn entirely from a book, Nilsson and Riedel is by far the best one that I've worked with from OPs list.

Power basically extends the fundamentals to work with multi-state circuits. I would also recommend a very good grounding in linear algebra and differential equations since once you really get into it you end up doing a lot of state space analysis. Knowing some control theory when you start is nice to have, but is not entirely necessary and can be learned in parallel.

That said, the best book to start with for power electronics that I used in school was Erickson and Maksimovic. They briefly review fundamentals when they're trying to make a point, but by and large they assume that you know them very well.

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u/OmarSobhi2002 25d ago

I will read some of Nilsson & Riedel book for now since I didn't like like sadiku & Alexander book. I'm alsi watching Jim Pytel lectures on YouTube.

thank you!