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Tony R. Kuphaldt

The AC half of the same first-year paper, and the one worth having open beside the syllabus: phasors and complex numbers, reactance and impedance, resonance, power factor, transformers, three-phase systems and filters. It spends longer than most books on why the j-operator is the sane way to add two sine waves. Published under the Design Science License, which lets it be shared.

Tony R. Kuphaldt

Basic Electrical Engineering, the DC half. Ohm's law, series and parallel networks, Kirchhoff's laws and the network theorems — Thevenin, Norton, superposition, maximum power transfer — each built up from what a meter would actually read rather than from the equation down. The chapters on batteries, meters and wiring are the ones that make the first lab make sense. Published under the Design Science License, which lets it be shared.

Meenakshi Raman, Sangeeta Sharma

The English paper's set text: report writing, technical proposals, letters and the presentation and interview chapters — which stay useful long after the exam.

N. D. Bhatt, V. M. Panchal

The standard graphics book, and effectively the only one used. Projections, sections, isometric and development of surfaces, with plate-style problems that match what the drawing sheets ask for.

S. S. Bhavikatti, K. G. Rajashekarappa

Statics and dynamics with the free-body diagrams drawn out step by step. Trusses, friction, centroids and moments of inertia are all here, and the drawn-out working is the reason to pick this one.

Shashi Chawla

Water treatment, fuels and combustion, polymers, lubricants and corrosion — the applied half of chemistry that the first-year paper is almost entirely made of.

Yashavant Kanetkar

Programming for Problem Solving, from a standing start. Pointers, arrays, strings, structures and file handling, each explained before it is used — and the exercises are close to what the practical exam asks for.

D. P. Kothari, I. J. Nagrath

The first-year electrical paper end to end: DC and AC circuits, network theorems, three-phase systems, transformers and the machines. The chapter order follows the syllabus closely enough to read straight through.

H. K. Malik, A. K. Singh

Written to the first-year syllabus rather than trimmed down from a degree text: interference and diffraction, polarisation, lasers and fibre optics, quantum mechanics and the dielectric and magnetic properties, in the order they are taught.