Foundations of Electromagnetic Theory

by Frederick J. Milford, Robert W. Christy, John R. Reitz

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: 020106331X
• ISBN13: 9780201063318
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Length: 435 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Tough to describe fairly...an Undergrad's views...

If its important to you I am a rising Senior in the study of physics at UCONN. I wanted at first to give this 3 stars, 3.5 is not available so I rounded up for on reason: I feel that my understanding of E & M is rather well developed, and I learned from this book. My professor was also quite good and he supplemented from the Griffiths text, which I have not read myself, but these may have influenced my view of the quality of this book. The probems sets I believe to be challenging and reasonable, the actual text is not in any way PHYSICAL though. The math is extensive, a pro and con simultaeneously. Everyone using this book will probably be at the appropriate level of skill therein, but a certain proficiency in READING math, feeling it in a way is necassary here. My teacher was the source of most of the education I recieved in E & M but the problem sets in the RMC played a nearly equal role. I will say that the treatment of the Dirac Delta function was foggy at best, otherwise it was fine with the porper mathematical background

Great book for Mathematical proof of Physical Phenomena

The book clearly explains (mathematically) the existence of physical phenomena. Proof of experimental facts can be described through physical laws and proven by mathematics. One had to be mathematically proficient to verify the validity of the arguments presented. Vector algebra and calculus with some knowlege of differential equations will greatly help in keeping up with the material.

Fine and clear treatment of electrodynamics

RMC is a clear textbook about electrodynamics. You don't have to have much previos knowledge about the subject to follow the theory, but you should be familiar with the basics of vector analysis. There are quite many examples and the problems are reasonably difficult (answers are provided).As a whole this book covers the theory well and some of the applications too.