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Electromagnetic Waves

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I took Inan's class, and first saw this book as a collection of course notes. It was an excellent course, and an excellent set of notes. I purchased the text as soon as it became available. This is my primary reference for Waveguide theory. It does an excellent job treating the fundamentals of waves in a practical format. The text is easy to read, and has many examples. It is a good text to have as a reference and has enough examples to teach (or reteach) yourself.

The book is not bad, but I wonder why the authors had to publish a separate text, instead of incorporating it into their other one ("Engineering Electromagnetics"). There is a lot of overlap between Chapter 8 of Engineering Electromagnetics and Chapters 2 and 3 in Electromagnetic Waves.

Like his other book, Engineering Electromagnetics, this one provides a thorough, pretty rigorous treatment of EM waves. It does well with building on concepts, especially in the first half of the book. There are a lot of problems, and most of them have real-world application in mind. I only wish the slab waveguides sections treated the more general asymmetric case, as opposed to only the symmetric one.