Study Aid Review: Schaum's Outline of Electric Circuits, Fifth Edition

 

This is a good supplement that will cover much of the material that you will be exposed to in the first year of circuits analysis, which is usually split into two semesters. This does have some explanatory material like what you will see in the chapter text of a textbook, and sometimes it lays things out more clearly than the book does (depending on which textbook your school uses; some are better than others). On the whole, I would say that the Schaum's Outline of Basic Circuit Analysis has better explanatory material than this guide does, but this one tends to have more challenging problems.

My one big issue with this is that it branches out too much into material that is not covered just in circuits and gets into some of the higher-level concepts that you would get in a class on signals, electronics, electric and magnetic fields, and so forth. I think this outline could have focused more on the material that is covered in the vast majority of the first-year curriculums (because some of that is very light), and then done a chapter or two on the more advanced concepts to give a roadmap to the topics that are covered in other classes and how they tie into the material of in the introductory circuits classes. That said, it does have a lot of example problems that will definitely help you with your homework, and it gives good explanations for the material it does cover.