Description
This well-known undergraduate electrodynamics textbook is now available in a more affordable printing from Cambridge University Press. The Fourth Edition provides a rigorous, yet clear and accessible treatment of the fundamentals of electromagnetic theory and offers a sound platform for explorations of related applications (AC circuits, antennas, transmission lines, plasmas, optics and more). Written keeping in mind the conceptual hurdles typically faced by undergraduate students, this textbook illustrates the theoretical steps with well-chosen examples and careful illustrations. It balances text and equations, allowing the physics to shine through without compromising the rigour of the math, and includes numerous problems, varying from straightforward to elaborate, so that students can be assigned some problems to build their confidence and others to stretch their minds.
Griffiths never fails to explain things thoroughly, give some good problems, and make me cry tears of pain and joy at the same time.
It’s Griffith’s EM…need I say more? It’s the only book every physics major needs to buy, everything else is optional. You will use this book a lot outside of the undergrad EM course, too…if you pursue physics that is
Great book
I am a junior in highschool, (graduating early). I fully comprehend Griffiths electrodynamics, as he made it very easy to work through. Right now I’m near: Energy for continuous charge distributions.
So, I dropped out of being a physics major in the late-90s…I am not 100% sure, but I think the class I dropped was using an older edition of this book. Fast forward a couple decades, and I realized the physics bug never completely left me. I bought this book for self study. It’s absolutely EXCELLENT! Griffiths does an outstanding job of explaining everything, and the problems are very worthwhile (from easy to extremely challenging). Would absolutely recommend this book for anyone interested in self-study.