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Numerical Methods with Applications: Abridged
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Numerical Methods with Applications: Abridged By Egwu Eric Kalu, Autar Kaw
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This book entitled Numerical Methods with Applications is written primarily for engineering undergraduates taking a course... More > in Numerical Methods. The textbook offers a unique treatise to numerical methods which is based on a holistic approach and short chapters. This book is a product of many years of work on educational projects funded since 2002 by the NSF.

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1) Examples of real-life applications are available from seven different engineering majors.
2) Each chapter is followed by multiple-choice questions.
3) Supplemental material such as primers on differential and integral calculus, and ordinary differential equations are available on the web.
4) The book has a state-of-art dedicated open courseware website with YouTube lectures, extra examples, PowerPoint presentations, worksheets in MATLAB, MATHEMATICA, Maple and MathCAD, anecdotes, eBooks, and blogs.

To access the website, go to http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu < Less
Basic Electronics: An Introduction to Electronics for Science Students
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Basic Electronics: An Introduction to Electronics for Science Students By Curtis A. Meyer
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This book has been written to support a one-semester course on basic electronics. It assumes a freshman-level physics... More > background and builds on this to move from simple DC circuits to AC circuits and passive filters. Transistors and Op-amps are then introduced, and active filters are discussed. Finally, an introduction to digital electronics is presented, followed by an introduction to digital filtering. < Less