Featuring a highly effective, learning-by-doing approach, Thomas & Rosa's The Analysis and Design Linear Circuits gives students the opportunity to analyze, design, and evaluate linear circuits as early as possible. The text's abundance of problems, applications, pedagogical tools and realistic analysis, design, and evaluation examples help students develop creative skills they need to solve problems and choose the best design from several competing solutions. Further phasors are introduced well after Laplace has been learned and applied as a special case of Laplace (sinusoidal steady state). This makes the concept of phasors not only easier to learn, but results in a better understanding of phasors.

Now the new Fourth Edition of this popular text is available in a Laplace Early Version. By presenting Laplace early, students are better prepared to handle the profusion of transforms in subsequent courses and are better able to understand the connections among impulse response, frequency response, convolution, and filters.