Cambridge University Press A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations

I dont know how many ways I can say, I loved this book sooo much. When I was simply trying to understand the Maxwell's equations, this book saved me. Guess what, this book would refresh concept even from the very basic vector dot product, cross product etc, so there is no chance that, the reader will find some concepts inaccessible. It covers what is divergence, what is gradient, what is Curl etc (even though, I would recommend the reader to get the concept of Divergence, Curl, Gradient cleared before reading this book; the reader can get those concepts from Khan Academy online). This book explained well 'what is path integral', 'what is surface integral', 'why there is a circle sign in the middle of a integral operator' etc. Anyway, I wont believe that, someone who understands calculus, wont understand maxwell's equations even after reading this very thin book with very less effort. The reader does not even need to be a master of calculus. If a partial derivative and Integral operator makes sense to the reader, he/she will find this book accessible. In the last chapter, (chapter 5), the author derived the Electromagnetic wave equations from maxwell's equation. That part was the most exciting part for me as I was simply waiting for learning that. If the reader knows that, a Wave Equation can be expressed in second order partial derivative form, then, this chapter will makes sense. This book did not explain where and how we got the Wave equation using second order partial derivative. I think, the author could explain that in a paragraph by writing few lines. As I was already familiar with wave equation, I did not have any problem understanding that part. Anyway, I find my every penny worth and I feel myself fortunate that I bought this book.

Die Maxwell'schen Gleichungen, stellen den Beginn einer neuen Physik dar.In diesem Werk werden in knapper Form die wesentliche Erkenntnisse der Maxwell'schen Theorie auf den Punkt gebracht und anhand einfacher einleuchtender Beispiele gezeigt, wie man sie anwendet. Wenn man die Mathematik kann, das ist allerdings die Voraussetzung, ist man in der Lage innerhalb eines Nachmittags dieses Werk zu verinnerlichen, und sich die wichtigsten Resultate der Klassischen Elektrodynamik ins Gedächtnis zurückzurufen und was man damit machen kann.

Great value, the book offers a clear explanation to all aspects of the maxwell equations at an affordable price! The book also gives some exercises and detailed answers at the end of all (sub)chapters. It might be a good idea to have some knowledge about vectors, vector fields and matrices. Thats probably the reason amazon recommended also buying a students guide to vectors and tensors. I have not read that book, so I am not sure if its a good recommendation to read before reading this book.

One of the best book i ever studied. He author nicely explain something which is not written in standard text book.

* Introduction [update Feb 2014] Its amazing feature being that its author encourages better mathematical and physics comprehension of these phenomena. But yet the whole book is still explained with enough undergraduate student fair rigour to not get in the way of its own ideas and concepts. * Design feature of the book The truly beautiful key part of the book being each of the Maxwell equation's is selected in turn, and within its own chapter is each equation components disassembled. This allows deeper, friendlier explanations at its component level. The matematical method includes the well known theory of calculus, and discussions of analysis. If your fine with both its an easier ride. Some of the descriptive work still requires comprehension of applied math technique's,from other sources. But if you study say the well - known 'Further Engineering Mathematics' (Stroud), this will encourage you to comprehension of these areas. * Summary The author of this book at this level makes it magnificently understandable, and shows clarity. Its explanations uses at least undergraduate engineering level rigor. I have been rereading this magnificent book again and it just gets better and better in explaining these topics. This book IS the way to go to start grasping electromagnetic phenomena with strong and logical examinations. If your in final year engineering and need some help in this arena, this IS the best I have read so far. I am sure this will sharpen your comprehension from an engineering and physics perspective of electromagnetic phenomena in any further studies you may attempt.