Electromagnetic Theory Books

Introduction to Electrodynamics (3rd Edition)

David J. Griffiths

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Definitely a Must Have for All Physics Students 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 3 people found this review helpful.

Let's just summarise here
Pro's to buying this book and using properly...
1. You will actually learn Electrostatics
2. You will actually learn Magnetostatics
3. You will actually learn Electrodynamics

Con's to buying this book and using properly...
1. There will not be much left to learn about electrodynamics (at least on an introductory scale).

Griffiths EM 5 out of 5 stars.
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I didn't really learn vector calculus until this book came along. It does in a few paragraphs that takes a whole section in a calc book to do and makes more sense.

A road map to Electricity and Magnetism 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book was a part of my favorite physics course ever, Electricity and Magnetism. The excersises are of great value to anyone taking entrance exams or the GRE subject test. Explanations may take a few tries to grasp fully but if you do the proper math reviews and take the time to become intimate with the material you will be rewarded with a superior understanding of the subject.

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Features a clear, accessible treatment of the fundamentals of electromagnetic theory. Its lean and focused approach employs numerous examples and problems. Carefully discusses subtle or difficult points. Contains numerous, relevant problems within the book in addition to end of each chapter problems and answers.

Classical Electrodynamics Third Edition

John David Jackson

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Just Plain Mean 3 out of 5 stars.
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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.

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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.

Schaum's Outline of Electromagnetics

Joseph Edminister

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Head First Physics: A Learner's Companion to Mechanics and Practical Physics (Head First)

Heather Lang

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Whether you're struggling to pass the AP Physics B exam, fighting a headache from your college physics course, or just want to understand how the world around you really works, Head First Physics will give you what you need to master algebra-based mechanics and practical physics. Designed for the way your brain works instead of a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep, this book offers a multi-sensory learning experience and encourages a deeper understanding of the material.

Hey! You’re a learner who is struggling in Physics so... Learn Physics the Head First way... Physics textbooks or exam prep books usually present you with all the facts you might need to know, in quick-fire style. In Head First Physics, there is space for you to explore and make your own discoveries. The book is interactive and you directly play a part. For example, you'll spend 44 pages exploring vectors in a treasure hunt competition rather than having the "facts" thrown at you in the space of three pages.

It's the exploration that makes things stick—and makes the physics easier to learn. You're immersing yourself in the scenario rather than "reading along and nodding" from the "outside" like you would for most books. Overcome past learning struggles... Two topics in particular are in the "crossover" between math and physics — dealing with forces applied at angles and understanding the mathematics of circular and simple harmonic motion. Many students say that they can "use" the equations but don't really understand what they mean, so they become stuck when faced with more complicated problems. This is because typical physics books state these equations as fact, without giving much help or guidance in thinking through what the equations mean and why they work.

In Head First Physics, you spend a whole chapter building a solid foundation with angles and right-angled triangles by working out how to defend a castle. And for circular motion, you spend a whole chapter implementing a hamster training schedule, again exploring and working everything out for yourself. You are then able to use your depth of understanding to solve more complicated problems by breaking them down into simpler ones you already know how to do.

Make connections... Forces... Newton’s Laws... Energy... Work... Connect forces and Newton's Laws to energy and work. Most physics books say something like: "Here are Newton's three laws, in order. Here are some other equations for momentum conservation and impulse. Here are a couple more equations for potential and kinetic energy." But the connections between them aren't made clear, and most students treat them as a list of separate things to be memorized. In Head First Physics, you find out about momentum conservation (while helping some pirates deal with a ghost ship), which you use to discover Newton's 2nd & 3rd laws and impulse. After doing an assignment for "Fakebusters" investigating a phony "instant weight loss" machine and being a physics consultant on a computer game, you discover energy conservation while working out a way to lift the sword in the stone using physics. Everything builds logically and the connections are clear because you've discovered them for yourself by using what you already knew to figure out something new.

Apply physics to real life situations In Chapter 12 we introduce a Sim Football computer game, where you have to help a programmer who's good at writing games but not very good at physics. You have to think about how lots of different elements in a football game—passing, tackling, kicking, etc.—work in real life, then translate them into equations for the programmer. And once you've done that, you have to deal with extra problems that come up—like the players sliding the full length of the pitch after a tackle, or the CEO wanting to include a level where you play on the moon! This is just like real life, where solving a problem often brings something else to the surface. You can apply many of the problem solving approaches in the book to more than just physics!

Advice to learners from Heather Don't try to memorize! That's got to be the most important thing. Physics is like a sport — you learn best by doing rather than by memorizing. So the whole book's geared towards learning by doing, through solving problems as you go along. Start with a sketch, and write down all the values you already know on it. This gets the visual parts of your brain working and gives you a single reference on your page where you've collected together everything you know so far. Ask: "What's it LIKE"? Physics is about the world around you, and you already have plenty of experience there. Your sketch may remind you of a scenario you've seen before, or a similar problem you've previously solved, even if the "story" is different. Don't be afraid to have a go. The best way to solve a problem is to start it. You won't always see in advance how you're going to work your way through the problem, but as you sketch and write things down you'll often get ideas popping into your head that you can run with.

Angels Don't Play This haarp: Advances in Tesla Technology

Nick Begich, Jeane Manning

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Fascinating and frightening! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Man's desire to be god will eventually lead him to the unltimate self-destruction and the demolition of the planet he inhabits. "Angels don't play this HAARP" is a book that must be read by every citizen who cares about the condition of this planet. It will help the reader learn about man's manipulation of mother earth, and the possibility of rendering this gift into ruin....

Scary, Well Researched 5 out of 5 stars.
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HAARP is an innocuous research station designed only to help mankind. It's a radio transmitter probing the secrets of the ionosphere for our mutual benefit, right?--Wrong.

Dr. Nick Begich teamed with Jeanne Manning to write Angels Don't Play This Haarp, the book that exposes the potential dangers (and there are many!) of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project in Alaska.

Manning and Begich substantiate their theories and concerns with extensive research, documentation, interviews, and scientific facts. Some of the geopolitical and mega-corporate connections they have uncovered are as frightening as HAARP's possibly disastrous impact upon our planet and our lives.

The military has invested heavily in HAARP. Why? Begich and Manning have supplied some very scary answers.

HAARP's high-energy research system may very well have serious consequences for planet Earth. Its true purpose and actions must be revealed, and toward that end, Angels Don't Play This Haarp has fired a first and powerful salvo for "We, the People."

Schaum's Outline of Electric Machines & Electromechanics

Nasar

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Helpful tool for electrical machine problems 4 out of 5 stars.
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I found that this book is a very useful source for solving problems related to elctrical machines. It provides clear and easy to follow instructions that are well laid out and easy to follow. It offers a varying level of problems ranging from the fundamentals through to the more complex machine problems. This is a useful aid or reference for anyone looking for a book to help them in their studies and wants to have more practice at solving problems relating to this subject.

Weak on PM Machines 3 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Good book overall, but is getting dated. Most of the problems seem to be done in Gauss and Oersteds, and I don't believe there were any problems which used Neodemium magnets, which are most common in newer, high efficiency motors.

There was also very little on Permanent Magnet machines, about 6 pages, much of which was diagrams or descriptions of magnet types. Am still looking for a good book with problems on Permanent Magnet motors and generators.

Am using Hendershot and Miller's Design of Brushless Permanent Magnet Motors, which is very good. But it does not have many problems in it.

Editorial Review:

More than 50,000 copies of this powerful study guide sold in the first edition! Covering a broad range of topics, from simple DC magnetic circuits to electronic control of DC and AC motors, all the concepts and their applications are clearly explained and illustrated. Includes hundreds of problems with detailed solutions to help students learn quickly and reaise test scores without investing unnecessary time. Ideal for undergraduate students of electrical engineering, for solo study, and as a refresher.

Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light (7th Edition)

Max Born, Emil Wolf

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A Classic 4 out of 5 stars.
24 of 26 people found this review helpful.

This book is a classic with all problems associated. Half of the reference quoted have been written before the WWII. Very useful if you like to quote original papers. This book cover most topics of the classical optics but hardy cover modern topics.

However, it is hard to read and use a weird notation. Certainly not useful for rapid referencing. Like the bible, use it only when you have serious problem to deal with.

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Principles of Optics is one of the classic science books of the twentieth century, and probably the most influential book in optics published in the past forty years. This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, with new material covering the CAT scan, interference with broad-band light and the so-called Rayleigh-Sommerfeld diffraction theory. This edition also details scattering from inhomogeneous media and presents an account of the principles of diffraction tomography to which Emil Wolf has made a basic contribution. Several new appendices are also included. This new edition will be invaluable to advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers working in most areas of optics.

There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings

Kenn Amdahl

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An off-beat introduction to the workings of electricity for people who wish Richard Brautigan and Kurt Vonnegut had teamed up to explain inductance and capacitance to them. Despite its title, it's not wild ranting pseudo-science to be dismissed by those with brains. Rather, Amdahl maintains that one need not understand quantum physics to grasp how electricity works in practical applications. To understand your toaster or your fax machine, it doesn't really matter whether there are electrons or not, and it's a lot easier and more fun to start with the toaster than with quarks and calculus. The book is mildly weird, often funny, always clear and easy to understand. It assumes the reader doesn't know a volt from a hole in the ground and gently leads him or her through integrated circuits, radio, oscillators and the basics of the digital revolution using examples that include green buffalo, microscopic beer parties, break-dancing chickens and naked Norwegian girls in rowboats. OK, it's more than mildly weird.

The book has been reprinted numerous times since 1991 and has achieved minor cult status. Reviewed and praised in dozens of electronics and educational magazines, it is used as a text by major corporations, colleges, high schools, military schools and trade schools. It has been studied by education programs at colleges across the United States. This book was making wise cracks in the corner before anyone thought of designing books for dummies and idiots; some say it helped to inspire that industry.

It may be the only "introduction to electronics books" with back cover comments by Dave Barry, Ray Bradbury, Clive Cussler, and George Garrett, as well as recomendations from Robert Hazen, Bob Mostafapour, Dr. Roger Young, Dr. Wayne Green, Scott Rundle, Brian Battles, Michelle Guido, Herb Reichert and Emil Venere. As Monitoring Times said, "Perhaps the best electronics book ever. If you'd like to learn about basic electronics but haven't been able to pull it off, get There Are No Electrons. Just trust us. Get the book."

RFID For Dummies

Patrick J. Sweeney II

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Marketing hype for RFID, nothing more 1 out of 5 stars.
3 of 8 people found this review helpful.

This book was a HUGE dissapointment for me. I have plenty of "For Dummies" series books and this is the only one that really let me down.

The whole book is written by a person who works for the RFID industry. He does not spend any time explaining the security and privacy issues involved with RFID. He makes a childish remark that "RFID is like credit card, it can be tracked"...BUT FORGETS TO MENTION that RFID can be tracked wireless every time everywhere, while your credit card can only be tracker where YOU CHOOSE TO USE IT.

Concidering the recent issues of RFID read/copy/forgery with even latest "high security passports" (like the ones used in EU), this book is really a HUGE thumbsdown. Dont buy it.

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Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer's Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves

B Blake Levitt

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With ubiquitous electropollution from cell phones/towers, powerlines, computers, and wireless devices, this eye-opening book is the best resource for parents, community planners, healthcare professionals, and scientists alike. Winner, 1996 Award of Excellence from the American Medical Writers Association. From the earth’s natural electromagnetic background to “Green” EMF safety designs, Electromagnetic Fields explains which illnesses are associated with artificial radiation, how technology impacts human health and wildlife, and how to live more safely.

“If you’re looking for the plain unvarnished truth and the best available advice, this is one book you should not miss.”—Robert O. Becker, M.D., author of Cross Currents and coauthor of The Body Electric

“Other authors have dealt with EMF questions, but none with the clarity and evenhandedness of B. Blake Levitt. This book avoids the extremes of over-dramatization and understatement and delivers the important information in a cool and lively manner.”—Andrew A. Marino, Ph.D., J.D., coauthor of Electromagnetism and Life, and The Electric Wilderness