Which books should I use for these courses?

[johnchau123]

I have some problems on which books shall I use on 2 courses. Can anyone tell me which book is better and why? Thank you very much.

Course I - Electromagnetic Wave
Option A: Applied Electromagnetism, by L.C. Shen and J.A. Kong, PWS, 3rd Edition
Option B: Field and Wave Electromagnetics, by D.K. Cheng, Addison Wesley, 2nd Edition

Course II - Signals and Linear Systems
Option A: Signal Processing First, by McClelland, Schafer and Yoder, Pearson, 2003 Edition
Option B: System Analysis & Signal Processing: with emphasis on the use of MATLAB, by Philip DenbighAddison Wesley, 1998 Edition

Thank you very much.
John

 

[plc]

for electromagnetics, a book by krauss is great. then there is saidiku. of the two u have mentioned, cheng is more famous.

for sigs & sys, oppenheim,s book is good.
regards.

 

[leoren_tm]

on electromagnitics i agree to that..
but if you want to be theoretical i would suggest the book of hayt!!!
ive uses it already

 

[mannnish]

yeap hyat's book is good one for theory and its aviliable here........
but dont think it has that good varieties of numericals and example solutions...........

 

[hrhgroup]

cheng and oppenheim are the best!!!

 

[emadi]

for electromagnetic i prefer you cheng

 

[bhatt_tanmay]

J D Kraus is good in electromagnetics and PROAKIS is good in dsp . FOR MATLAB u can use SANJIT K MITRA

 

[springf2000]

option B is good,but at first what is your application, if y want to do the antenna then option B is good and if y want to do the filter, then the guide wave of cohon is good

 

[pngzhi]

For electromagnetic cheng for signal and system oppenheim.

 

[kiprono]

Just go through the books topic by topic. No one book can be good for all topics!

 

[miniuser]

In my opinion option B is preferred for both courses. I found them useful.

 

[bsandeeptej]

for em waves:
1.jordan&balman
2.saiduku
for signals&linear systems:
ramesh babu