This edition refines and improves the first edition. It treats the present experimental limits on the mass of photon and the status of linear superposition, and introduces many other innovations.
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This edition refines and improves the first edition. It treats the present experimental limits on the mass of photon and the status of linear superposition, and introduces many other innovations.
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Warning to the Uninitiated,
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This review is from: Classical Electrodynamics, 2nd Edition (Hardcover)
This book should not be used for dydactic purposes. As I have stated empathically for the second edition, this book (now even in revision) fails to teach. Though the book presents an admirable breadth of topics, it should not be considered a classic. The author frequently omits vital steps, and there are simply too few examples. Unless the reader has previously been exposed to the material, reading and understanding is a torturously onerous task and a waste of time. The problems are usually challenging but occasionally a bit tedious. It seems to me that the use of Jackson as a standard text book is a bit akin to the use of wooden paddles in fraternity ceremonies. The professors got wacked and so must the next generation of uninitiates.
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The Third Edition is Disappointing,
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This review is from: Classical Electrodynamics, 2nd Edition (Hardcover)
Will the fourth edition be clearer? Jackson remains a standard text but not a good one. The only improvement in the third edition is that Jackson has finally conceeded and uses S.I. notation at least for several chapters. More examples would be helpful.
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good content but a very hard read.,
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This review is from: Classical Electrodynamics, 2nd Edition (Hardcover)
I write about five pages of my own notes for every page of this text that I work through and haven't even attempted the problems yet. It will take years of self study at my rate to work through this book.
I'd prefer expanded treatments of many of the topics with less haste and compactness. I understand that this would at least quadruple the size of the book. Much of the content presented isn't actually inaccessible, but the presentation makes it initially scarier than it really ought to be. Some sort of middle ground, more than an intro e&m course provides, and less than this advanced treatment would be ideal (for me).
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