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Title: Field and Wave Electromagnetics (2nd Edition) by David K. Cheng ISBN: 0-201-12819-5 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1989 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $116.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A classical text but good foundations in Math needed.
Comment: I had this book as my text book in Purdue University. Frankly speaking, most people will have no clue what it is talking after reading it for the first time because this book describes electromagnetism more from a mathematical point of view. From the start it just throws hypothesis, derivations and formulae to the reader and there are few examples, therefore readers without adequate and solid background in maths(especially in vector calculus) will be quickly confused by this book and lose the big picture. This book serves nicely as a reference but if you are not that familiar in this field, I would recommend other books. One of them is 'electromagnetics' by Kraus which is not as mathematical rigorous as this book, but more readable.
Rating: 5
Summary: Graet!
Comment: It is the most comprehensive book in this area I have seen yet,
specially for the undergraduate Electromagnetics course.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent and unique development, but lacking in some areas
Comment: Although this is my favorite exposition of fields and waves, Cheng sort of violates what he set out to do. This text is supposed to proceed more logically than others, yet it provides no basis for the basic postulates he introduces. He describes the postulates with one sentence, provides no motivation for them, and does not even describe any experimental basis for them. This is in stark contrast to other books. Also, he incorrectly treats the Lorentz condition from a logical point of view. The Lorentz condition is what helps link electromagnetic fields with electromagnetic waves travelling through space in the time-varying case. Cheng simply states the Lorentz condition because it simplifies another equation for potentials and says that we are at liberty to specify the equation because it contains the divergence of a variable whose curl is already specified earlier; and specifying both the divergence and curl of a vector field uniquely defines the field. This is abrupt, arbitrary reasoning with almost no motivation behind it. He should have at least stated where the Lorentz condition really comes from -- from the theory of relativity and its relation to electromagnetic fields. This would be a more lucid and correct way of linking electromagnetic fields to electromagnetic waves. Besides these shortcomings, this book is unique and excellent overall. For the serious student of electromagnetics, applied scientists, and engineers I recommend getting this book along with Essentials of Electromagnetics for Engineering by Wolf and Electromagnetic Fields and Waves by Lorrain and Corson; Lorrain and Corson's text correctly treats the Lorentz condition and derives it using the theory of relativity. These three texts, when first supplanted by a course in electromagnetism at a reasonable level, will leave one ready for any new encounters in this field, research or applied.
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Title: Schaum's Outline of Electromagnetics by Joseph A. Edminster, Joseph Edminister ISBN: 0070212341 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Microelectronic Circuits (Oxford Series in Electrical Engineering) by Adel S. Sedra, Kenneth C. Smith ISBN: 0195116631 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $112.00 |
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Title: Signals and Systems (2nd Edition) by Alan V. Oppenheim, Alan S. Willsky, with S. Hamid, S. Hamid Nawab ISBN: 0138147574 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 06 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $116.00 |
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Title: Introductory Electromagnetics by Zoya Popovic, Branko D. Popovic ISBN: 0201326787 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $116.00 |
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Title: The Electromagnetics Problem Solver (Problem Solvers) by Staff of Research, Education Association, James Ogden, Research & Education Association, Max Fogiel ISBN: 0878915508 Publisher: Research & Education Assn Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $30.95 |
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