The level is a little above the average undergrad text. It would be excellent supplemental reading. I'd say it's probably most valuable for grad students. CGS units are used.

His coverage of topics like radiation, diffraction, and wave guides are among the most readable I've seen. It was unconventional at the time because he uses Lorentz invariance to develop Maxwell's Equations (using the 'ict' metric. Oh, well, Physicists have to learn to deal with different metrics).

I'd like to recommend the undergrad book by Nayfeh & Brussel, but the used prices have gotten ridiculous. Maybe you can find it in the library. I don't know this particular book, I just want to comment in general: I bought enough of the 'cheap' books on all different subjects and never once I found anyone very useful.

I hate to say if you pay a lot, you don't necessary get a good book, BUT if you pay less, you almost never get a good book. I kept getting fool when I see a book on a subject for $25 instead of over $100, I bought it and it was a bomb!!! I got a stack to show for.from math to RF and all. This is my observation, I bought so many books I have much more books on the subjects that I am interested than the Stanford University book store. I can fill at least two tall book shelves just on the subject of Microwave electronics and calculus books.plus a stack of those useless 'cheap' books.

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Hate to say, when I buy books, I look at the price first!!!! I save money by buying used instead.

And I buy those than have student manual. Isn't the Internet wonderful. You don't have to know anything to venture an opinion. Dover does have some books I'd pass over, but this one is one of the gems.

They also publish Panofsky & Philips, which was the graduate E&M text before Jackson became popular. The way E&M is usually presented hasn't changed much since the 1950's.

As I mentioned, the use of 'ict' for the metric is old fashioned, though this metric is still often used in QFT. But everything else is standard vector calculus notation. Nick Games Super Brawl 3 Html.

If not which book is better between David J. Griffiths and Purcell. Thank You.If you have only learned intro EM, then Griffiths is the way to go for sure. Purcell is a fantastic book, abut it is the kind of book that is 'grows' on you - the more EM you learn, the more you will like Purcell.

I hated it for intro EM (was very painful), really started liking it after intermediate EM, and loved it after graduate EM. If you are studying on your own, I would get a used copy of Griffiths - the newest edition isn't required. I have a copy of the first edition and it is really good. Usually used copies of old editions are cheap! Good luck, jason. I love Schwartz's pedagogy.

Every student would LOVE to start off with relativity. I also found that is a lot more readable(and enjoyable) than Jackson. I can recommend it is a good supplement to standard graduate texts like Schwinger, Landau, or Jackson. Also, approach Amazon reviews(or any review) with caution. EDIT: Oh wait, you are an undergrad?! Schwartz is fine for undergraduates but you should consider more elementary books like Electromagnetic Fields- Wangsness What 0.o, you've read Shwinger, Landau & Jackson, and you're 15?

Unlike most textbooks on electromagnetic theory, which treat electricity, magnetism, Coulomb's law and Faraday's law as almost independent subjects within the framework of the theory, this well-written text takes a relativistic point of view in which electric and magnetic fields are really different aspects of the same physical quantity.Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this volume offers a superb exposition of the essential unity of electromagnetism in its natural, relativistic framework while demonstrating the powerful constraint of relativistic invariance. It will be seen that all electromagnetism follows from electrostatics and from the requirement for the simplest laws allowable under the relativistic constraint. By means of these insights, the author hopes to encourage students to think about theories as yet undeveloped and to see this model as useful in other areas of physics.After an introductory chapter establishing the mathematical background of the subject and a survey of some new mathematical ideas, the author reviews the principles of electrostatics. He then introduces Einstein's special theory of relativity and applies it throughout the rest of the book. Topics treated range from Gauss's theorem, Coulomb's law, the Faraday effect and Fresnel's equations to multiple expansion of the radiation field, interference and diffraction, waveguides and cavities and electric and magnetic susceptibility.Carefully selected problems at the end of each chapter invite readers to test their grasp of the material. Professor Schwartz received his Ph.D. From Columbia University and has taught physics there and at Stanford University.

He is perhaps best known for his experimental research in the field of high-energy physics and was a co-discoverer of the muon-type neutrino in 1962. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Roger Nichols Small Circle Of Friends Rare. Lederman and Jack Steinberger.