A computer aided approach to teaching undergraduate courses in circuit theory and electronics is discussed. It is shown that symbolic manipulation packages like MAPLE give an additional insight into the analysis — complementing the analysis using a numerical simulation package like SPICE — enabling the students to understand complicated circuits.
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