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The study of electromagnetism in higher education, as a fundamental part of both physics and engineering, is typically accompanied by textbooks devoted to the subject. The American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers recommend a full year of graduate study in electromagnetism for all physics graduate students.[1] A joint task force by those organizations in 2006 found that in 76 of the 80 US physics departments surveyed, a course using John David Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics was required for all first year graduate students.[1] For undergraduates, there are several widely used textbooks, including David Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics and Electricity and Magnetism by Edward Mills Purcell and D. J. Morin.[2] Also at an undergraduate level, Richard Feynman's classic The Feynman Lectures on Physics is available online to read for free.
There are several widely used undergraduate textbooks in electromagnetism, including David Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics as well as Electricity and Magnetism by Edward Mills Purcell and D. J. Morin.[2] The Feynman Lectures on Physics also include a volume on electromagnetism that is available to read online for free, through the California Institute of Technology. In addition, there are popular physics textbooks that include electricity and magnetism among the material they cover, such as David Halliday and Robert Resnick's Fundamentals of Physics.
Author | Title | Year | Units | Publication | Reception and use |
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Richard P. Feynman | The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume 2 and parts of volume 1) |
1963 | SI[3] | Addison-Wesley[4] | [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][3][12][13] |
Edward Mills Purcell | Electricity and Magnetism | 1985 (2nd ed.) | Gaussian[3] | McGraw-Hill[14] | [15][16][3] |
David Griffiths | Introduction to Electrodynamics | 2012 (4th ed.) | SI[3] | Addison-Wesley[17] | [18][19][2][3] |
Edward Mills Purcell and D. J. Morin | Electricity and Magnetism | 2013 (3rd ed.) | SI[3] | Cambridge University Press[20] | [21][22][2][3] |
Melvin Schwartz | Principles of Electrodynamics | 1987 | Dover Publications[23] | [24] | |
Gerald L. Pollack and Daniel R. Stump | Electromagnetism | 2002 | SI[25] | Addison Wesley[26] | [25] |
Wayne M. Saslow | Electricity, Magnetism, and Light | 2002 | SI[3] | Academic Press[27] | [28][29][3] |
Roald K. Wangsness | Electromagnetic Fields | 2007 (2nd ed.) | John Wiley & Sons[30] | [31] | |
I.S. Grant and W.R. Phillips | Electromagnetism | 2008 (2nd ed.) | John Wiley & Sons[32] | [33] | |
John R. Reitz, Frederick J. Milford, and Robert W. Christy | Foundations of Electromagnetic Theory | 2008 (4th ed.) | Addison Wesley[34] | [35][36][37][38] | |
H C Verma | Classical Electromagnetism | 2022 | Bharati Bhawan (P & D) |
A 2006 report by a joint taskforce between the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers found that 76 of the 80 physics departments surveyed require a first-year graduate course in John David Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics.[39][1] This made Jackson's book the most popular textbook in any field of graduate-level physics, with Herbert Goldstein's Classical Mechanics as the second most popular with adoption at 48 universities.[1] In a 2015 review of Andrew Zangwill's Modern Electrodynamics in the American Journal of Physics, James S. Russ claims Jackson's textbook has been "[t]he classic electrodynamics text for the past four decades" and that it is "the book from which most current-generation physicists took their first course."[40]
According to a 2011 review of textbooks in electromagnetics and computational electromagnetics by David B. Davidson, Julius Adams Stratton's Electromagnetic Theory remains the classic text in electromagnetics and is still regularly cited.[83] Davidson goes on to point out that Constantine A. Balanis' Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics and Roger F. Harrington's Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields are standard references at the post-graduate level.[83]
Author | Title | Level | Year | Publication | Reviews and use |
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Hermann A. Haus and James R. Melcher | Electromagnetic Fields and Energy | Introductory[83] | 1989 | Prentice-Hall[84] | [83] |
Simon Ramo, John R. Whinnery, and Theodore Van Duzer | Fields and waves in communication electronics | Introductory[83] | 2008 | Wiley[85] | [86][83] |
Julius Adams Stratton | Electromagnetic Theory | General[83] | 2007 | Wiley-IEEE Press[87] | [83] |
Weng Cho Chew | Waves and Fields in Inhomogenous Media | Post-graduate[83] | 1990 | Wiley[88] | [83] |
Roger F. Harrington | Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields | Post-graduate[83] | 2001 | Wiley[89] | [90][83] |
Constantine A. Balanis | Advanced engineering electromagnetics, 2nd ed. | Post-graduate[83] | 2012 | Wiley[91] | [92][93][83] |
Richard C. Booton | Computational methods for electromagnetics and microwaves | Computational techniques[83] | 1992 | Wiley[94] | [95][96] |
Weng Cho Chew, J. Jin, E. Michielssen, and Jiming Song | Fast and Efficient Algorithms in Computational Electromagnetics | Computational techniques[83] | 2001 | Artech House[97] | [98] |
J. Jin | The Finite Element Method in Electromagnetics | Computational techniques[83] | 2002 (2nd ed.) | IEEE Press[99] | [100][101] |
Allen Taflove and Susan C. Hagness | Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method | Computational techniques[83] | 2005 (3rd ed.) | Artech House[102] | [103] |
Carl Theodore Adolf Johnk | Engineering electromagnetic fields and waves | General | 1988 | Wiley[104] | [105] |
Percy Hammond | Electromagnetism for engineers : an introductory course | Introductory | 1997 | Oxford University Press[106] | [107][108] |
Robert E. Collin | Field Theory of Guided Waves | Guided waves[83] | 1990 | Wiley-IEEE Press[109] | [83] |