Electric Machinery. A.E. Fitzgerald, Charles Kingsley, JR., Stephen D. Umans Paperback – January 1, 2005

I gave it 5 stars because the book delivers. You will have a good fundamental understanding of electric machinery after reading this (from an engineers standpoint I mean - if you're not an engineer or physicist, this probably will be way more than you can handle). Good problems in the book also for practice (although it would be a lot better if they made the solutions available?!? Not sure why they wouldn't do this. I mean we are trying to learn right?)FYI - You will need to supplement this book, especially for 3-phase and 1-phase induction motors, because the material just isn't explained/diagrammed out as well as it needs to be to get a FULL fundamental understanding. There are steps that are skipped and/or not covered in the detail I'd like. I have lots of questions that weren't explained/answered, and some stuff I can't see from the authors' logic how it could be so. I do think the synchronous machines chapter was excellent, but still had to scratch my head for a while on a few things.All in all though, I think the book is very good and would recommend it to any engineer trying to understand electric machinery. You're not going to come out of this book ready to design a synchronous generator or induction motor, but YOU WILL be ready for the next step in learning about them and understanding power systems.

Book arrived on time, and exactly as was described. Very pleased. Would feel confident making further purchases with this person.

A must have for an electrical engineer.

Buy it instead:Electric Machinery and Transformers (The Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering)Electric Machinery Fundamentals (McGraw-Hill Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering)