The Electromagnetic Field (Dover Books on Physics)

A little too much equations

Is really very good.

I guess that the best way to describe this book is this: mixed feelings. Some chapters are absolutely great, some are not, some things are explained beautifuly and some felt completely fussy. This is the general 'feel' I got out of this book, to give you an example: I started reading it from page 1, I thought that his introduction to vector calculus and his examples were just brilliant, but then you read for instance the later chapters on transmission lines, I thought it was quite complicated and tedious to read (math aside), the explanations were not very clear in many cases.I personally liked his approach of mixing electric and magnetic fields instead of viewing them separately, I think its best to start by understanding both of them than having to go through the entire electric field chapters and then start learning about the magnetic, however it did feel a bit odd to be switching back and forth, but you get used to it. The writting style felt somehow formal, without incurring in something as boring as passive voice, but in my opinion in some cases it made things more difficult to follow, in general I think its a verbose book.The book covers a lot of topics, including engineering oriented topics, and relativity, however Its my most humble opinion that there are better books for the beginner, I own several EM books (Hayt, Sadiku, Cheng, Ramo, Grant, Griffiths, Schwarz) in general I think that Griffiths book is the best to start learning about EM if you can cope with Griffith's weird notation, I also think that Dan Fleisch's "A Student's Guide to Maxwell Equations" is one of the best introductions to the subject. As for this book by Shadowitz, I felt the notation was pretty standard, nothing wrong with it.I think this is an okay book, perhaps its not my first choice but I would definitely recommend having it on your shelf, the book itself is quite thick and even if its a paperbound it seems to be made with high quality materials.

good

Excelent product and delivered on time

great for studies of advanced mathematics.... I wanted deeper understanding of field physics

Despite studying MRI physics as a (neuro)radiologist, lets just say this is for the MIT RF engineer in you or someone who reads Rich Feynman books in the john...It is very calculus based, and is a lovely discourse on all facets of Maxwell's equations, plus many more very practical examples of real life magnetics (dipole-dipole interections, etc).I bought it just to scare the pants off my radiology residents at lecture time.

I love it.

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