Background: I am posting this inquiry on behalf of a slightly overworked EE professor at the local community college. I am currently taking a distance learning class on circuit fundamentals, and the professor is planning to offer a distance learning class on basic transistor and amplifier theory in the near future -- as soon as this Spring, if possible. Among the holdups is that she needs to find the right textbook, ASAP. (And for my part, I am hoping to take the class this Spring, which is why I am helping her in her textbook hunt!)
Obviously, she needs a decent textbook in basic transistor and amplifier theory, something at roughly the level of "Electronic Devices" by Floyd (Prentice Hall).
The kicker, however, is this: The way she runs her distance learning classes, she wants to be able to give her students fairly detailed solutions to all the homework problems, and she doesn't always have time to work out all those solutions herself (she is running multiple distance learning classes). Therefore -- she needs a textbook where the publisher will provide, to faculty members, detailed, worked solutions to the homework problems in the text, preferably in electronic form (such as .pdf), so she can send these solutions out to the students.
The way my current class is working is, we first try to work the homework problems on our own; but then compare our own efforts to the solved solutions (sorry, I guess that phrasing is redundant), both so we can see if we've done it correctly; and so if we have not done the problem correctly, we can learn how to do it right. For this class on circuits, we are using "Engineering Circuit Analysis" by Hayt, and apparently they do provide her with the solutions in .pdf form, so she can send them to us. Apparently, she has so far been unable to find a similar text for transistor theory and applications.
I've checked the Web site for "Electronic Devices" by Floyd myself -- I happened to pick up the text a few years ago -- and I cannot tell from that site whether or not the publisher provides detailed solutions for the HW problems at all, let alone provides them in .pdf format or similar.
Anyway, bottom line: I (we, actually) appreciate any recommendation for a good sophomore/junior level textbook on transistor theory/basic applications, plus appropriate related topics -- basics of op-amps, oscillators, you probably know what else applies -- where the publisher will provide, to the instructor, .pdf or similar files with detailed, worked-out solutions to the homework problems presented in the textbook.
Please be kind enough to send leads my way, via this newsgroup or the e-mail (slightly mangled, below), and I will forward them to the professor.
Thanks! Steve O. steveqdr useThatFirstPartJustAsIs AATT RemoveSpamProtectPhrase Yahoo DDOOTT Ccoomm