study habits page.
In EI1120 the "official" course-literature is the lecture notes and homeworks. These are all in English. Together they are intended to give sufficient material to have a good understanding and grade in the course. There are many past exams with solutions, which can be used for further practice. In the tutorials (övning) further questions may be provided from the teachers or from various books.
So: there is NO book that you are requested to buy and use.
The KTH compendium (see below) is recommended as a complementary source in Swedish,
to ensure you know the proper Swedish words for circuit analysis, and to give an
independent view of the subject.
However, we know that tastes differ a lot. Some students find one book or type of exercise very helpful, while others find it bad and prefer another. It might be that some students are helped by having a big further book, and don't like the notes or compendium. Therefore, some suggestions are made below, about other sources of explanation and practice-questions (exercise), for anyone who finds these a good alternative or supplement to the course literature that we provide.
Warning! Remember that you already have probably already got
more course-material than you actually have time to read and practise fully,
just from this website and the compendium.
Beware of the temptation to spend time (and money) collecting books and
videos to help your study, instead of just getting on with the hard work
of doing the study with the existing materials. Homeworks, old
exam solutions, and some hard thinking, might turn out better than
colourful textbooks.
See the study habits page.
Those students who want other books are recommended first to the
KTH compendium by Gunnar Petersson, in Swedish.
This book was for many years the official course literature for KTH Elkretsanalys.
It is recommended as a complementary source, to encourage familiarity with
technical terms in Swedish as well as English.
The compendium usually appeals to those who like short descriptions. However, the reason for starting using an external book (see Dorf/Svoboda, below) instead of the compendium, was that some students felt there were not sufficiently detailed explanations and examples in the compendium. For example, nodal analysis is treated very lightly, but is an essential part in the course.
Exercises and solutions from the compendium can be downloaded here for further practice.
övningsexempel_i_elkretsanalys__KTH-GP_2007.pdf
The full compendium can be bought from STEX, for 100:-.
Here are two other suggestions, beyond the notes and the KTH Compendium.
Both of these books seem quite clear and helpful.
They may be very expensive; have a good look at a borrowed copy before you
commit to buying anything!
Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis
(Irwin and Nelms).
This is quite compact. It contains a lot of (colour) pictures and text related to practical application of circuits. I think this would be my choice if I had to select a single textbook for this course.
The Analysis and Design of Linear Circuits
(Thomas, Rosa and Toussaint).
This is detailed and gives a feeling of more interest in network theory than most circuits texts; it is not quite so picture-filled as some others. It would appeal to someone who wants to go into such depths and perhaps to use the book beyond this course.
In the first few years of this course, a thick book "Electric Circuits" (Dorf and Svoboda), 8th edition, was used.
This was stopped for various reasons, including the desire to fit a different structure of subjects, a focus on power and energy in this course, and that the book had absurdly many errors (some remain even in its next edition). A sample of some known problems (and some solutions to problems in early chapers) can be found here.
It also does not have quite the structure or content that we desire, and focuses too much on numbers in the exercises.
However, there may be second-hand copies still available around KTH, and some students did like its explanations a lot (while others didn't -- this is always the case).
Like most modern textbooks, it has a lot of exercises but mainly without answers. This is not very useful for practising, when one wants to check one's solution. The publisher therefore gave us access to pdf files of the "instructor's manual", which we are allowed to distribute to students who are using this book.
If you do have this book, and want to check your solutions, please see the link and login details on the old EI1102 course-material page. That gives access to files of solutions, which we are not allowed to distribute except to students taking our courses and using this book.
See also the online exercises on this book's Companion Site, on
the links page. That provides varied questions.
But remember you might be better just to do some of our old homeworks
and exams.
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