Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems

by Theodore Wildi

Book Overview

This best-selling book employs a theoretical, practical, multidisciplinary approach to provide introductory users with a broad understanding of modern electric power. The scope of the book reflects... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130930830
• ISBN13: 9780130930835
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 886 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.9" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding Book!

This is a great book. A must have for the Principles and Practice Professional Engineers Exam. It is very well written and has very useful information regarding electrical machines, drives, and power systems.

...Those were the textbooks

There's no way I could revise a student's edition hardcover for a must for engineers. But I could revise my experience with this book in the past, This book helped me realize my potential as a student while outlining most topics in an easy manner. Few recommended guides match the potential guidelines/topics that this textbook covers. I really hope this edition helps me revise the topics I struggled with in the past as well to help me learn the new topics covered.

Comprehensive and Complete

I am delighted to have found this text. I find it the most comprehensive, complete and up-to-date text on electrical machinery, power distribution and transmission, etc., that I've seen. It does an esppecially outstanding job of presenting harmonics and harmonic effects on modern power systems. Kudos to the author!

Excellent blend of practical and theoretical.

This text is well organized and presents a wide range of topics in sufficient detail for many engineers and managers. Pictures and diagrams of equipment are abundant, as are electrical equations, waveforms, and phasor diagrams. Historical perspectives and advantages/disadvantages are included. It is surprising for one text to contain such breadth and depth, including transformers, motors, generators, controls, power electronics, utility systems, and harmonics. It was one of two books used in preparation for, and during, the PE exam; it continues to be a learning tool and reference.