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The third edition of the defining text for the graduate-level course in Electricity and Magnetism has finally arrived! It has been 37 years since the first edition and 24 since the second. The new edition addresses the changes in emphasis and applications that have occurred in the field, without any significant increase in length.

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A revision of the defining book covering the physics and classical mathematics necessary to understand electromagnetic fields in materials and at surfaces and interfaces. The third edition has been revised to address the changes in emphasis and applications that have occurred in the past twenty years.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 047130932X
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; 3rd edition (August 14, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 832 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780471309321
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0471309321
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.12 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.3 x 1.4 x 10.1 inches

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Jazzman-T

Good for brushing up math skills

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 9, 2008

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I, like many others, used this book for graduate E&M. The text is easy to follow, however, for those who haven't seen the mathematical derivation techniques for quite some time, it is best to pause and take a moment reviewing how one equation becomes the succeeding equation. Jackson often, but not always, quotes what technique was involved so it shouldn't be too hard to look up vector identities and techniques involving standard functions (orthonormal, Green, etc.) in any advanced calculus text. For those who love the challenge of solving a variety of problems, this is your book. Jackson exercises your mind in such a way that you should find yourself pulling everything and anything you can remember (as far back as those unpleasant undergraduate days) applicable to the problem at hand and piece the puzzle together until you arrive at "a" solution. During my graduate studies, we used F. Melia's "Electrodynamics" alongside Jackson. However, it was extremely cumbersome working with something in Gaussian units and MKSA at the same time between the two books, but there was a good reason to use both. Melia's book was first written to accomodate Jackson's 2nd and other E&M books written in Gaussian units, so I'm sure that the 2nd edition Jackson would work very well with Melia's book. Melia most respectfully spells out the conceptual ideas (physics) for you and Jackson will nail you with the mathematical techniques involved, especially in his problem sets. Overall, I rate this a 4/5 stars simply because the 3rd edition used MKSA units, where I think Gaussian is much more elegant. Jackson explains why he decided to do this in the preface to the 3rd edition and it's all fair game. Use this book to brush up on your mathematical techniques. To be honest, Griffith's "Introduction to Electrodynamics" would be an excellent text to use before you even decide to read Jackson's or Melia's. If you can master Griffith's book first, then it would make your life better when you adventure into Jackson's 3rd.

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Paul Bonyak

Still the best guide to E&M for the physics grad

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For a wide eyed young grad student this text can be (Was!) quite daunting, I used the 2nd edition with the Gaussian (CGS) units. The math needed to solve the problems is presented in a haphazard way, not systematically as a mathematician should present it but just given as techniques that work with particular problems-true of the 2nd as well as the 3rd. Bad. Derivations like in Lienard-Wiechert potentials are heuristic at best. The vector potential expressed as an integral over current density divided by distance seems to follow cogently-not rigorously.. Bad. What's good? A careful reading shows the author makes no attempt at an exhaustive comprehensive treatment but usually presents a brief description which happens to be good enough sometimes and gives the reader references to the more exhaustive treatments if not. I disparagingly called this a reference book because it gave you references-not the interpretation taken by my pipe smoking, ascot wearing comrades. Well in hindsight a complete exhaustive treatment of E&M has yet to be written. It branches off to various specialties. What a grad student needs is a guide and that's what Jackson is. The teacher probably should emphasize this point. The difficulty of the problems largely stems from not interpreting the problem correctly. You have to see what's being said-maybe diagram it. Jackson for many was their first exposure to problems that couldn't be solved in closed form-series solutions. We're comfortable with this in the computer age.

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Mandatory reading... Deal with it.

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If you're looking at this, I'm sorry. I'm sorry because you've no way out of using this text for your graduate E and M course. (Unless you're at MIT where this is the required torture, uh... I mean text for the undergrad course.) As other comments state, nearly every grad-EM course uses this text. It doesn't matter what opinions are held about this work. It's very comprehensive, and very general. If you honestly plod through it, you can learn loads.

However, for practical advice, I recommend using Griffiths' EM book during the first semester as a supplement. I said "first semester," because if you can't figure out how to get through Jackson by the end of the first semester, you need to rethink ambitious dreams of a graduate degree in Physics. Reworking the problems in Griffiths' chapters 3 and 4 will go a long way in helping you understand the first three chapters of Jackson and they should be worked before the course begins.

This method has helped me, and hopfully it can help you. In any case... Good luck!

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Minimal difference from standard editions

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This is a graduate level text, heavy on the math. If you are not buying it for a class, Griffiths Introduction to Electrodynamics (4th Edition) is a better intro. If you are buying it for a class, have hope, it'll be over soon.

Missing the handy formula pages (Vector Formulas, Theorems from Vector Calculus, Where to Find Key Material on Special Functions, Explicit Forms of Vector Operations). I printed them from a PDF and taped in. There are occasional places where the printing is imperfect, but usually only affecting one symbol. Light, sits open easily, spine seems sturdy

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John

This book is an epic comedy about a young physicist and their attempt to understand chapter 1.

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Great condition, heavy content. First year of grad school this is a staple. Wish there was a good companion to this book to go into further details when Jackson “leaves it to the reader” but overall this textbook is rather thorough.

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Content mismatch

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The content of the paperback book is different form the hardcover book. It is inconvenient because I need those sections not in the paperback version!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 17, 2014

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One of the most popular books for graduate level Electrodynamics and Magnetism class.
It is very difficult to follow at times, but a very thorough book. A classic text to own.
Slightly tough to make it a text for independent study, more of a text to use during a graduate class.
It is worth purchasing a new copy because if you're buying it you're in grad school, and you'll most likely keep this text forever.
Just in case you're studying independently, most solutions to problems in the book are all online somewhere.

Happy shopping! :>

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 17, 2013

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As a postgraduate student, I would thoroughly recommend this to anyone who is working in electrodynamics. The book is incredibly detailed, offers a good range of problems to properly test the reader's understanding. I will admit that, for people with little background in electrodynamics (myself included, I'm really based in continuum mechanics), it is rather tough work to figure out where Jackson gets some of his results sometimes, but I found that supplementing it with a lower level text (Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics (Pie) or similar) really made a lot of difference, providing me with a tad more background and a reminder of some of the more commonly used mathematical techniques. Of particular use to me was the incredibly instructive appendix on units, along with the section on the Abraham-Lorentz equation, which was part of the focus of my final year honours project at undergraduate.

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A. B. MARQUEZ

A classic: do not loose it!!!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 24, 2013

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The perfect book for Electrodynamics; quite extensive and with very wide coverage not only of electrodynamics, but also electrostatics and mathematica methods for electromagnetic theory.

I still love to read the paragraph on the existence of magnetics monopoles....though it exceeds my comprension!!!

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Edward Parkinson

Some passages are difficult to read and my version arrived ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 2, 2014

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Some passages are difficult to read and my version arrived covered in red tape, even though I bought it brand new. Covers a very large range of subjects however.

arne

Classical reference

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 23, 2013

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Jackson's masterpiece treatment of electrodynamics in an affordable binding. As the author says in the preface to the previous edition: May the reader benefit and enjoy!

Zeno Kang

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 27, 2018

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