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Title: Introduction to Electrodynamics (3rd Edition) by David J. Griffiths ISBN: 0-13-805326-X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 30 December, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $108.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.87 (63 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Undergrad E&M Standard for Greatness.
Comment: Interesting. Insightful. Conceptually Complete. Great Mathematical Notation. Great Explanations. All of these and more could be said about David Griffiths' incredible book on Introductory E&M. David's writing style is next to none, the text is never boring and extremely insightful. The various chapters are structured extremely well. It "flows" extrodinarily well from section to section. He conveys very well the enormous and far reaching applicability of the science of E&M.
Griffiths often uses physical arguments by analogy instead of mathematical rigour to convey many physical ideas. He treats the math like it should be treated in physics, as a language to work with ideas, not as a hindrance blocking their meaning. His mathematical notation is so completely natural and reader friendly, you get used to it very quickly. The examples are insightful and the problems, while challenging, are well thought out.
Every diamond has its fault, and this textbook's fault is its lack of a student solutions manual and answers in the back. However, the quality of writing GREATLY overwealms this fault, hence the 5 star rating. With this textbook, a good instructor, and a little hard work, you WILL learn E&M.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best around.
Comment: This book is wonderful. I used it for a 1 year junior-level course at UERJ and I can say it was perfect.
I really don't understand the people that wrote bad reviews about this book. First of all, they seem not to understand that this book is AN INTRODUCTION. There exist excellents books on advanced material (Jackson, Schwinger...), but I doubt anyone has begun with those.
Some of those reviewers say that the math in the book is too elementary. So what? This is a EM course, not a Mathematical Physics one. If you want to struggle with Bessel or others horribles special functions, get Griffiths problems and change them by yourself so that the eigenfunctions are those you want. If you want Green's function, go ahead, you can solve lots of Griffiths' problems with it. But this is not the point. This is a physics book, and the discussion on the fenomena are very good. In my opinion the math used is that you do need to understand the physics.
Other constant complaint is the lack of problem solutions saying that without them you cannot know if you're learning. Well, particularly, it didn't bother me. The problems are very well selected and cover a wide range of difficulty. The easy ones should tell you if you're doing well. And, despite of what others have said, the problems make this a very good book for self-studying.
Finally, I don't understand the complaints about Griffiths' colloquial style. Some other (well celebrated) authors share the same informal writing style and everybody call them genious. Actually, this makes the book very pleasant to read thorough leaving the hard work to the problems.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great for introduction AND reference.
Comment: I am a graduate student now and I still use Griffiths on a regular basis. It not only gives LOTS of examples, but also paints an accurate physical picture BEFORE writing a single equation. The whole first chapter is devoted to the mathematics that you (were supposed to have) learned typically in a third semester Calc course. My instructor did not cover the chapter explicitly, but reffered to it often.
This book is great.
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Title: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by David J. Griffiths ISBN: 0131244051 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 02 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $108.00 |
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Title: Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems by Stephen T. Thornton, Jerry B. Marion ISBN: 0534408966 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $125.95 |
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Title: Classical Electrodynamics by John David Jackson ISBN: 047130932X Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 27 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $86.95 |
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Title: Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus by Harry M. Schey ISBN: 0393969975 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Schaum's Outline of Quantum Mechanics (Schaum's) by Yoav Peleg, Reuven Phini, Eliahu Zaarur, Reuven Pnini, Elyahu Zaarur ISBN: 0070540187 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 30 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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