Customer Reviews

Electromagnetics for Engineers

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I used this book to instruct a 16-week junior/senior level course in Electromagnetics for Electrical Engineers. The book starts with the fundamentals of electric charge, potential, current, and Coulomb's law. The middle portion of the book is devoted to Maxwell's equations and magnetic fields. The final chapters feature antennas and wave propagation.

Strong Points: Undergraduate students will benefit from the large number of solved examples throughout the text. Answers are provided for even-numbered end-of-chapter problems. The companion CD contains further exercises and problem solutions. The layout of the book and text type make for easy reading. All important formulas and equations are clearly labeled.

To summarize: the book tends towards the "cookbook" variety and contains enough material for a short course without going into more depth such as J. Kraus's book on Electromagnetics.

This book has the right ISBN number but it's a photocopy textbook. It's fake; it does not come with the CD. I just lost 100 and something dollars. Pages are photocopies, and falling off. And I bought this directly from Amazon, not from any seller. It's a ripoff. I don't know who is supplying Amazon this. If it's the publisher, they need to reduce the price because it's not worth 100 and something or improve the quality.

This paperback version of the textbook had the right ISBN number, but is NOT what my class used (not exactly). Firstly, there was no CD or DVD with the solutions worked out on it like the book says it has. Secondly, all these pages were low quality xerox copy, black and white reproductions of the real textbook. All the graphics were washed out, like when you make a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy on an old xerox machine. Many random pages were loose, which I didn't find until I got to that page in the middle of the book. All in all, this is what I would expect to see if they had counterfeit textbooks. Oh, and the textbook itself was VERY poorly written; even if I had bought a regular quality printing, all the English was so awkwardly written that I spent most of my time trying to figure out what the guy was trying to write instead of working problems. Only use this book if your class has homework out of it; otherwise go with another, more literate writer.

Got this text book as part of my course work at the University of Maryland. It was exactly as advertised.

Paperback book with what appear to be black & white pages from a copy machine.
Also, payed extra for 1-day delivery through Amazon Prime and received the book 2.5 days later(1 day later than I needed it.)

This is a reasonable book. I would have given only 3 stars if not because of chapter 7 and on!!. The first 6 chapters are just to simplified to the point you miss a lot of useful informations and how the formulas are derived. I pretty much study the book by David K. Cheng which I gave it a 5 stars. It is Chapter 7 that impress me. The book explain the homogenous wave equation in very detail and clear. This chapter is even better than Cheng's book. Not quite complete because it does not have any of the inhomogeneous wave equation.

All in all, still better than some other books.