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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Broad, concise and lucid.
Westgards book it possibly the best electrodynamics text I've come across, for those who want an upper level text. The lucid and yet incredibly concise description of tensors alone makes the book worthwhile. And since most of the book then goes on to use tensor notation, one is not left with a lot of the ugly mathematical muck you find in most electro books.
Published on November 5, 1999
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good treatment of radiation topics
First, this book seems to have been edited in a rush. They errors are mostly notational typos, but some of the physics is blurred. I found that the use of m's and n's for indices back to back with crappy type-set made it hard to distinguish them. Also, the "covariant" presentation was not quite cogent (or even useful in most cases.) For those looking for CONCISE AND...
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Broad, concise and lucid.,
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This review is from: Electrodynamics: A Concise Introduction (Hardcover)
Westgards book it possibly the best electrodynamics text I've come across, for those who want an upper level text. The lucid and yet incredibly concise description of tensors alone makes the book worthwhile. And since most of the book then goes on to use tensor notation, one is not left with a lot of the ugly mathematical muck you find in most electro books.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good treatment of radiation topics,
This review is from: Electrodynamics: A Concise Introduction (Hardcover)
First, this book seems to have been edited in a rush. They errors are mostly notational typos, but some of the physics is blurred. I found that the use of m's and n's for indices back to back with crappy type-set made it hard to distinguish them. Also, the "covariant" presentation was not quite cogent (or even useful in most cases.) For those looking for CONCISE AND CLEAR, go with LEV LANDAU's courses. For tensors, see Bishop and Goldberg (standard) or novikov and the russians' Modern Geometry.N.B. The diskette is useless on a modern CPU, and all the text pages the code takes up are wasted becuase of this. the 3 stars are for certain sections which are enlightening. The last 3rd of the book is pretty well written, actually. |
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Electrodynamics: A Concise Introduction by James B. Westgard (Hardcover - November 21, 1996)
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