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 For those who want an understanding February 22, 2009
Arthur Bradley (Virginia)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
In college, I was the typical electrical engineer, working problems, performing derivations, and doing what was needed to make the grades. Sometimes (especially with emag), I lost my way and didn't really see the broader picture. Certainly I couldn't have explained Maxwell's equations.
This book does a very good job of walking the reader through the four Maxwell Equations (Gauss's Law of Electric and Magnetic Fields, Faraday's Law, and Ampere's Law) in both differential and integral forms. Each equation is studied independently, broken apart, with each mathematical element studied and discussed.
I must confess that I read this book lying in bed each night - one equation per night, pointing out my discoveries to my wife in layman's terms. I had always wanted to better understand Maxwell's Equations, and this book served as an excellent primer. I know understand the signfifcance and meaning of each equation, and no longer feel that they are complicated or "black magic." The funny thing about it all was that my wife, who initially rolled her eyes as I told her about flux density and such, eventually go to where she would casually ask "so what equation are we learning tonight?" Knowledge is truly addictive!
Written by Arthur Bradley, author of "Process of Elimination" - a thriller that pits a martial artist against a world-class sniper out to shape the presidential election.
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Well-written, fun February 21, 2009
rbnn (Berkeley, CA United States)
A pleasant companion to electromagnetism theory. Very good for clarifying and giving intuition to the vector formalism, e.g. to divergence and curl. To master the subject one would still need to do lots of more traditional problems, and probably lab work, but this is a helpful guide and overview. It's extremely well-written for a science textbook too.
Amazing Author, Amazingly useful book February 12, 2009
W. Boyd (Bel Air, MD United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A man who is so confident in his product he will fly to your door on Christmas Eve to make sure you have it.
Beat that.
Amazing author February 11, 2009
H. Lacey
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This author is amazing, his book is amazing. Pick up the book and give it a read! you won't regret it.
Best Beginners review - assumes little February 11, 2009
Gyro (Sydney Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This has to be the best overview of Maxwell's equations that I have ever come across. It assumes almost nothing of your lack of understanding. In particular the parts I like best was that, given an equation say one of the closed integrals - you are given little explanations and pointers to every little part of the equation. You are left in want of nothing. The author feeds you the baby steps you need to understand.
There are a few MINOR areas that could have given just that little bit more information nudge. For example the symbol of an equals sign, but with 3 horizontal lines - meaning "defined as". I expect that some students may need to be hand held over these things. Minor points but for the beginner it interrupts the flow of knowledge absorption.
Overall - would have to be the best entry level book yet.
BTW - I bought Grad Divs Curls and all that at the same tine as this book.
This is a good companion but be warned: This book is a problems/solutions work book. Very good for learning but dull/boring compared to this guide book.
Books of this calibre are a delight to read.
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