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This book is about linear circuit analysis and some of its applications. The i principles of circuit analysis were laid down in the course of those fundamental experiments with simple wire ciruits which led to the concepts oí voltage, current, resistance, capacitance and inductance. Since those days, the many other electrical and electronic devices which have been invented are habituaIly described in terms of circuits showing equivalent behaviour. This situation means that circuit analysis has become the language of electrical and electronic engineering, and a basic necessity to any practitioner in the very wide range of applications coveIted by these subjects. Experience shows that students find it difficult to acquire the necessary proficiency. One factor contributing to this situation is perhaps that it seems to be a common philosophy for courses and textbooks to start with a formal theoretical presentation before approaching the simple problems which form the bulk of applications which students are liable to encounter, both in their course and in real life. In this book the alternative approach is adopted: the principles of circuit analysis are presented in the simplest form, followed by application to a wide range of examples of the type that the student will inevitably encounter in his or her course, and indeed in a practising environment. This approach is in no way meant to denigrate the role of formal theory: theory is a vital necessity for the understanding, for example, of filter design and in general for network theory, but not for the analysis of a very wide range of commonly encountered practical situations. The elements of formal theory are presented at a later stage in the book, primarily as a background to computer-aided analysis.