The Classical Electromagnetic Field (Dover Books on Physics) [Paperback]

Leonard Eyges (Author), Physics (Author)

Book Description

Series: Dover Books on Physics | Publication Date: November 18, 2010

This excellent text covers a year's course in advanced theoretical electromagnetism, first introducing theory, then its application. Topics include vectors D and H inside matter, conservation laws for energy, momentum, invariance, form invariance, covariance in special relativity, and more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications; Unabridged and Corrected Republication edition (November 18, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486639479
• ISBN-13: 978-0486639475
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #382,107 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #56 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Physics > Waves & Wave Mechanics

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great book for the applied physicist., December 15, 1999

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Randolph Best (Norman, Oklahoma, USA.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Classical Electromagnetic Field (Dover Books on Physics) (Paperback)

There is a tendency nowadays, especially if you are at Harvard, to think of a physicist as someone who only works on group-theoretical notions and topological structures in particle physics and cosmology, with everything else that looks something like physics to be worked on by crude, practical people in a electrical engineering department. This book, however, which was developed by a professor at Harvard's neighbor MIT, obviously has the attitude that the solution of partial differential equations applied to idealized (and therefore analytically solvable) problems in electromagnetic theory is still exciting physics. As such, this book belongs in the same class as Sommerfeld's "Electrodynamics" and Stratton's "Electromagnetic Theory." It is clearly written with good problem sets and covers enough material for a beginning graduate course. The units used are Gaussian, which makes for a better discussion of relativistic concepts. The mathematics used includes contour integrals, Green functions, and Hankel functions. At first sight, the author's use of only E and B and never D and H may come across as the fanaticism of the ultra-pure physicist. On the contrary, it makes for a clearer discussion of the boundary-value problem at the interface of continuous polarized and magnetic media.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another good electromagnetics book, September 11, 2003

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James H. McDuffie (Huntsville, Alabama United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Classical Electromagnetic Field (Dover Books on Physics) (Paperback)

This is a great book! The treatment is accessible and the section on electrostatics is outstanding in comparison with many other books. The author goes out of his way to both explain the subject in detail and to share his rather obvious enjoyment of the subject. This is another case of "if you read all these books then you will know electrodynamics". Not everything is here but it is a great supplemental text and reference. I don't know if anyone is using it as a single textbook for a course however. For the practical physicist in solid state, optics, electrodynamics, etc. this is a must have.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Back Up, December 25, 2004

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This review is from: The Classical Electromagnetic Field (Dover Books on Physics) (Paperback)

I recently took Electrodynamics with Jackson and frequently used this book as a backup/reference. I highly recommend it for that purpose, but it was not very useful as a learning tool by itself.