A basic book for anyone that requires to make decisions and quantitative modelling in Forest Production.

I took a C++ class and this was our text book. I found it difficult to understand reading the first time. It took me several times of reading to figure out the concepts. The books' source code files were supposed to provide codes for MS Visual C++ and Borland but never did in my classes time. I was overall dissapointed in this book.

This book is used in a 4th year electrical engineering class. I never used the book in my class, I used Budak's book Passive and Active network analysis and synthesis (0-88133-625-4). I found Budaks book to be very advanced yet informative and my final review is that it is excellent. Now wanting to explore this area from a different text book I picked up this book. My only real complaint is that the author insists on using strange matricies to represent the circuits. Now I am a fan of the mathematical approach to circuits but this is not your standard node or loop analysis matrix. This is a matrix of Branches and Loops with either 1,0 or -1 to represent the path. Even on simple circuits the matrix grows to be around 4x9 or higher. Try taking the inverse or adjoint of that by hand!!

I originally picked it up thinking that all the matricies were because it was solving complex circuits using node analysis. However this is not the case.

Anyway I was not very impressed by that and the book builds from their approach to include "cut sets" of the circuits and yada yada yada. All in all after 5 years of doing superposition, node and loop analysis I was not too open to learning this guys technique. Maybe other schools use this approach and then this would be the book for them. As for the rest of the book, it does not touch on Caur or Foster networks until page 490 (of a 600 page book). In Budak it hits then on page 92 (of a 700 page book). As the book progresses it has entire networks (2 port) represented by gigantic matrices (10 by 30 or so). It also has very little opamp circuit covered. Like most books on this topic, Laplace representation of a circuit is presumed, as well as the matrix manipulations. If you are thinking of picking up this book to quickly reference something you will be out of luck. Most topics are the authors approach which does not seem to be too standard.