Abstract

THE title of this book, that of the series to which it belongs, and the first sentences of the preface, alike fail to convey a correct sense of the book's scope and aim. The preface says: “It is a book for engineers.”This is only a partial truth ; it is a textbook for engineering students (as indeed the preface goes on to explain), but it is not a handbook for working engineers and it is not a reference book. Much more is required before the author's hope that it “will help the student to attack any sort of transient problem with confidence” can be adequately realized. But as a text-book for students it is good; clear descriptions of the physical nature of transients take first prominence, the mathematical side being kept in its place as a necessary and important tool. Four introductory chapters are devoted to transients in simple series circuits of inductance, resistance and capacity. The next three deal with the indicial response of more complicated networks, the transient response to sinusoidal and non-sinusoidal voltages and transients in coupled resonant circuits. This last-named discussion is kept simple and illuminating by neglecting ohmic resistance. Then follows a chapter on solution of circuits with variable parameters by graphical and point-to-point methods. A clear exposition of travelling waves on non-dissipative and distortionless transmission lines leaves one to regret the serious omission of any discussion of standing-wave phenomena.

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