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Intriligator, University of California, San Diego. I wish I had this book when I was a student. It contains delightful morsels of deep insight the introduction taught me that fields are as real as a rhinoceros, or as I might extend it, 'quantum fields are as real as quantum rhinos' and interesting topics that are rarely, if ever, treated in other texts. Zee, author of Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell. This book is a treasure trove of thoughtful and incisive nuggets.
I expect to see it on the shelves of many students and professors the world over. Shankar, Yale University. It offers delightful insights into the physics of electromagnetism rather than treating this subject as an excuse for laborious exercises in mathematical methods. It has the best treatment of electromagnetism in material media that I know. Remarkably lucid and enjoyable, and a worthy competitor to Jackson's classic text. Garg has a lively, modern writing style that will engage today's graduate students.
Stack, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. It goes the extra mile to provide physical insight in ways that will enhance students' understanding, and includes rarely seen topics as well.
I want to compliment the author on the obvious care and expertise with which he assembled this text. If I were to teach a yearlong graduate-level electromagnetism course, I would use this book. Belcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A good book By David Housley The aproach to what can be a daunting subject is quite effective. The author is good at filling in the gaps where many texts in this area fail. It, however, has a few weaknesses like all books. It cannot compete with the readability and clarity of Griffith's undergraduate text and it lacks the depth of Jackson's book but is a good midpoint between these two references.
Melhus I am not aware of any nut on this earth whose shell could contain this volume. That, however, is my only negative criticism of the book. The material is presented as well as I've ever seen it, clearly, concisely, and logically, in both CGS and MKS units often texts at this level pick one; here you not only get both, but gain fluency in conversion.
This book has helped deepen my understanding of the material greatly. The contents of the book are based on the syllabi currently used in the undergraduate courses in USA, U. The book is divided into 15 chapters, each chapter beginning with a brief but adequate summary and necessary formulas and Line diagrams followed by a variety of typical problems useful for assignments and exams.
Detailed solutions are provided at the end of each chapter. The treatment focuses on core concepts and related aspects of math and physics.
Topics include vectors D and H inside matter, conservation laws for energy, momentum, invariance, form invariance, covariance in special relativity, and more. While many electromagnetism texts use the subject to teach mathematical methods of physics, here the emphasis is on the physical ideas themselves.
This text does not utilize an "i" in the metric of Special Relativity. Zangwill retains the use of "i"; Being, as am I, a student of Taylor and Wheeler's Spacetime Physics, I've never warmed up to the use of "i" when discussing Relativity, on a deeper level consult Representations of the Rotation and Lorentz Groups by Gel'fand, Minlos and Shapiro. So much for the cursory comparison. I've spent more time with this text than Zangwill's, therefore I turn to Garg's exposition.
Chapter One, a brief Survey, is followed by a thirty page review of the mathematical skills necessary for perusal of this textbook. Exercises occur within sections, an excellent pedagogic strategy. Magnetostatics follows. Page "If accelerating charges produce radiation, how can the magnetic field be constant in time? Page , The Table of Maxwell Equations, and this, " Fifth Chapter, we read, " Electromagnetic Waves, Polarization, Lasers, all are treated in exemplary fashion; we read: " Coverage in the following Chapter extends to Interference phenomena, which gets one to the exceptional Ninth Chapter wherein Green's Functions are introduced and utilized.
Action Principles, next; this material, while satisfying, can be expanded by perusal of Schwinger's Electrodynamics Text. All pieces then come together as one! This exposition is as captivating as that which is found in Eyges' book Classical Electromagnetic Field. Compare and contrast! These eight chapters are quite challenging and require careful rumination. The following 22 on Scattering, is fairly brief, but entertaining especially Section , scattering by small particles. Following which is Special Relativity reiterating: no imaginary-time coordinate and a beautiful section on accelerated motion.
Electromagnetism coupled with Special Relativity is treated, next, in an excellent Chapter Compare page to Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler's pages ! Excellent exercises some with hints and solutions , a bibliography for further reading and useful appendices special functions all conspire to provide a rich source of inspiration.
The author writes with clarity and profundity. Much else awaits the prospective student. This is an excellent, advanced, textbook.
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