Classical Electrodynamics by John David Jackson
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- Sales Rank: 62,593
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- ISBN-13: 9780471309321
- Edition Description: REV
- Edition Number: 3
- Pub. Date: August 1998
- Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: August 1998
- Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
- Format: Textbook Hardcover, 808pp
- Sales Rank: 62,593
- ISBN-13: 9780471309321
- ISBN: 047130932X
- Edition Number: 3
- Edition Description: REV
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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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A textbook for a two-semester beginning graduate course for students who have completed a standard undergraduate program for physics majors. Emphasizes the unity of electric and magnetic phenomena both in their physical basis and the mode of their mathematical description, develops and utilizes a number of tools in mathematical physics, and presents now material on the interaction of relativistic charged particles with electromagnetic fields and other areas. First published in 1962, and again in 1974; the third edition incorporates the slight drifts in emphasis and application the long-established subject has taken over the past couple of decades. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Classical Electrodynamicsby Anonymous
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March 18, 2008: According to some other reviews this text makes an excellent reference for professionals. However, they've already taken the tests, and been through the classes. In short they already have their Phd. If you know the majority of readers of your book are coming to you to improve their understanding or learn entirely new material, why would you make difficult stuff even harder by intentionally omitting derivation steps in every section of every chapter. With the deadlines and time constraints associated with student life it's almost impossible to get through all the difficult derivations in the reading before even getting to the sometimes insane problems in a reasonable time. Either try to make the reading as clear as possible, and the problems challenging, or reduce the difficulty of the problems and have the reading challenging like it is now, but don't challenge the usually involuntary student readers with both difficulties. I may change my opinion later, but for now I feel that the level of difficulty and style of this text is based largely on the cruelty of the author.
Classical Electrodynamicsby Anonymous
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January 31, 2003: I fail to see how this book has come to be known as a standard for graduate level classical E&M. I feel it lack detail and rigour. It omits relevent steps in derivations leaving the student with a feeling of "What the heck is going on." In my undergraduate course I had Intro to Electrodynamics by David Griffiths, I fee that book does a far better job than Jackson. Griffiths appears more detailed oriented, has more depth than Jackson does.
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