Authors Daniel Fleisch
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Product Description
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.
Product Details
# Paperback: 144 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (October 26, 2011)
# Language: English
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Reviews
The focus of this text is to introduce the physics and not to focus on or distract the reader with unnecessary mathematics. It contains just enough of the mathematics to understand the concepts, but unlike layman books on physics that often skimp on the mathematics, this book does not attempt to omit any that is required to understand the physics. The reader will be well prepared for a more in depth, and mathematically thorough treatment after covering this material.
Finally, a physics book that does not apologize for having math in it. In a simple manner, the author takes each equation apart and explains every squiggle, dot, and delta and how they relate to each other. With only a high school diploma I was able to understand what was happening in the application of these basic equations. Thank you for taking the time to explain them rather than telling me that I am just too dumb to understand.
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