Differential Equations for Electrical Engineers

Abstract

THIS book is the outgrowth of a lengthy experience in training first-year electrical engineering students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The earlier chapters discuss complex numbers, average values, Fourier's series and linear differential equations with constant coefficients. Chap, iv discusses partial differential equations and is more difficult, but the author gives clear explanations which should make the student's path easy. In Chap, v some of the partial differential equations which arise in engineering and physical problems are discussed. The telegraph equations, in particular Heaviside's distortionless circuit, heat flow in one dimension, liquid flow in two dimensions and vibration problems give excellent illustrations of the use of partial differential equations. Then we come to solutions of these equations which have to satisfy given boundary values.

Differential Equations for Electrical Engineers.

By Prof. Philip Franklin. Pp. vii + 299. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1933.) 15s. 6d. net.