What are some best books for 1st year students in IIEST Shibpur?

The answer to this question may help the student, as my sister was in this place just a year before. However, class notes are the best and real deal, and the students must follow class notes to understand the topic discussed in the class.

Chemistry

• Class notes are the best, but the students must collect notes from the different departments as well.
• My sister also followedCastellan for the Physical Chemistry part.

Computing and Programming

• There are numerous books for Logic Gates and Binary System.
• C programming course is the main course for this subject and you can follow Let us C for this course.

Basic Electronics Engineering

• The student must follow the Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory by Boylestad and Nashelsky for this subject. This book contains a number of solved problems.

Mathematics I

• For this, students can go for Higher Engineering Mathematics by B.S Grewal; this book is also helpful for the second year of study.
• Besides, the student can also follow A Textbook of Engineering Mathematics Volumes I, II, III, IV by Guruprasad Samanta from their first year to last year’s study.

Mechanics

• The class notes and the problem sheets are important for this subject and you should solve the problems thoroughly.
• Besides, they can follow the book with 4 authors, namely, Engineering Mechanics by S.Timoshenko, D H Young, J.V Rao and Sukumar Pati. 

Basic Electrical Engineering

• Besides regular class notes, the student can go for Basic Electrical Engineering by Abhijit Chakrabarti, Sudipta Nath and Chandan Kumar Chanda, and Basic Electrical Engineering by V.N Mittle and Arvind Mittal to get a good backup.

Mathematics II

• As it is mentioned in Mathematics I, the Vector Space chapter will be quite troublesome for the students. For Linear Algebra, they can follow the book written by Sheldon Axler.

Physics

• Students must go for B.K Guha's Degree Physics for Science and Engineering, as this book helps the student keep afloat.
• They can also follow Ajoy Ghatak for Optics¸, Schaum's Outline of Vector Analysis by Murray Spiegel and Seymour Lipschutz for Vector Algebra¸ Advanced Acoustics by D.P Ray Chaudhri for Acoustics.

From the above, it is cleared that class notes should be the first priority for every student; besides, they can take the book from Ramanujan Central Library. But, they have to be an early bird; otherwise, everything will be stocked out. Students can also find online PDFs for the study if they can’t buy books, as most of the books are expensive enough.