Book excerpt: Written specifically to meet the needs of students in engineering technology or applied engineering programs, this text presents the fundamentals of transient circuit and system analysis with an emphasis on the Laplace transform and pole-zero approach for analyzing and interpreting problems. *Optional coverage of Electronics Workbench-As the supplementary circuit analysis program (replaces PSpice). Contains various EWB examples (at end of most chapters) which are based on previous chapter examples that had been analyzed earlier by standard circuit analysis methods. Converts these examples to EWB schematics and analyzes them utilizing the software. - Allows students to compare results from the two very different approaches. *Numerous MATLAB examples. - Introduces students to some of the most useful operations that support circuit analysis. *Course flexibility. - Provides instructors with flexibility in terms of the depth and rigor with which the material in the text can be presented. They can emphasize the derivation and formulation of the principles involved; or they can emphasize the use of principles as tools for solving and interpreting practical problems, with only casual consi