A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations
Gauss's law for electric fields, Gauss's law for magnetic fields, Faraday's law, and the Ampere-Maxwell law are four of the most influential equations in science. In this guide for students, each equation is the subject of an entire chapter, with detailed, plain-language explanations of the...
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Gauss's law for electric fields, Gauss's law for magnetic fields, Faraday's law, and the Ampere-Maxwell law are four of the most influential equations in science. In this guide for students, each equation is the subject of an entire chapter, with detailed, plain-language explanations of the physical meaning of each symbol in the equation, for both the integral and differential forms. The final chapter shows how Maxwell's equations may be combined to produce the wave equation, the basis for the electromagnetic theory of light. This book is a wonderful resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in electromagnetism and electromagnetics. A website hosted by the author at www.cambridge.org/9780521701471 contains interactive solutions to every problem in the text as well as audio podcasts to walk students through each chapter.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780521701471 (0521701473)
ASIN: 0521701473
Publish date: 2008-01-28
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
A decent review, but had I not had physics 2 previously, I would have been completely lost. I had a really great professor for Physics 2, so I found myself wishing the author would have made similar points. Overall, a good review and a good quick guide for when I don't want to go through my old lec...
This text was an excellent supplement to my undergraduate electricity and magnetism course, and was very helpful in my studying for the physics GRE. Detailed explanations of each term and operator in Maxwell's equations are useful in understanding the physical situation the equation describes, not j...