Electromagnetic Theory by Stratton Julius Adams (PDF)

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The pattern set nearly 70 years ago by Maxwell’s Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism has had a dominant influence on almost every subsequent English and American text, persisting to the present day. The Treatise was undertaken with the intention of presenting a connected account of the entire known body of electric and magnetic phenomena from the single point of view of Faraday. Thus, it contained little or no mention of the hypotheses put forward on the Continent in earlier years by Riemann, Weber, Kirchhoff, Helmholtz, and others. It is by no means clear that the complete abandonment of these older theories was fortunate for the later development of physics. So far as the purpose of the Treatise was to disseminate the ideas of Faraday, it was undoubtedly fulfilled; as an exposition of the author’s own contributions, it proved less successful. By and large, the theories and doctrines peculiar to Maxwell the concept of displacement current, the identity of light and electromagnetic vibrations appeared there in scarcely greater completeness and perhaps in a less attractive form than in the original memoirs. We find that all the first volume and a large part of the second deal with the stationary state. In fact, only a dozen pages are devoted to the general equations of the electromagnetic field, 18 to the propagation of plane waves and the electromagnetic theory of light, and a score more to magneto-optics, all out of a total of 1,000. The mathematical completeness of potential theory and the practical utility of circuit theory have influenced English and American writers in very nearly the same proportion since that day. Only the original and solitary genius of Heaviside succeeded in breaking away from this course. For an exploration of the fundamental content of Maxwell’s equations one must turn again to the Continent. There the work of Hertz, Lorentz, Abraham, and Sommerfeld, together with their associates and successors, has led to a vastly deeper understanding of physical phenomena and to industrial developments of tremendous proportions. The present volume attempts a more adequate treatment of variable electromagnetic fields and the theory of wave propagation. Some attention is given to the stationary state, but for the purpose of introducing fundamental concepts under simple conditions, and always with a view to later application in the general case.

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⭐My first graduate text in electromagnetics was — no surprise — Jackson. But it was my good fortune that my professor, who was a contemporary of Stratton, put this book on the suggested reading list. The library catalogue listed two copies: one which had gone missing years before, and a second which was shelved inside a box because it was falling apart. So I immediately knew this was a treasure. Sure enough, here was much of the physics Jackson left as an implicit exercise. This was also my first and best exposure to Hertz vectors. And the later chapters introduced the machinery needed for basic scattering theory, which filled in some embarrassing gaps in my mathematics before I encountered it all over again in quantum theory. I watched over the years, hoping that a reprint would appear. I’m really glad to have this volume at my disposal again.I have the paperback reprint. The binding is decent, but I would not try to lay it flat. The print quality of my copy is very good from start to finish. Excellent value.

⭐I wasn’t expecting much from this book, given its so-low price. This books contains everything I went through in my EE undergraduate EM Fields class. AND it covers all I had in my graduate level, Advanced EM Fields class. I am so thankful to have bought this book, after loosing my original book from college.Warning – it does contain a lot of vector calculus. So as a prerequisite to this book, get a book on Advanced Calculus. This book also contains some typos – I believe, due to scanning into electronic format. The text is still understandable though.Very useful.

⭐This book is not suitable as an introductory text because it assumes its readers have a mature understanding of Maxwell’s equations and high mathematical sophistication. I have no further opinion of it as a teaching tool, having only used it as a reference for professional work in the electromagnetic sciences. In this role it never fails to provide a systematic and rigorous discussion of the topics it covers. The book is particularly comprehensive in areas of potential theory and contains the solutions to many problems that I have not been able to find elsewhere. Often these solutions are assumed as background for current research publications in EM so having access to detailed solutions can be very helpful. However, the book has three significant drawbacks as a reference: (1) The sections are not written to be standalone so one often has to do much work looking up early equations and notations (2) The mathematical techniques are, expectedly, dated. For example it relies more heavily on Green’s Therom than current approaches (which largely avoid explicit use of Green’s Therom by employing Green’s Functions) and seeks explicit solutions where numerical techniques could be more easily employed (3) The material on wave propagation and scattering is limited. All that said, for the right person in the right field, this book is a real gem.

⭐This is a great and classical book in electromagnetic theory. Note that is is rather advanced both in context, treatment and notation and I would recommend for graduate or reference use rather than as a teaching text.

⭐This is probably the best book available on electromagnetics. I have used it as a textbook in previous classes and found it to be challenging but comprehensive.

⭐This is by far the best electrodynamics ever. Professor Stratton truly was committed to teach the subject. J. D. Jackson is encyclopedic but is more an exposition of his personal knowledge of the subject.

⭐I used this book in Ye Olde Dayes at UCLA. Needed a quick copy for review. This works really really really good.(I tried for a slightly shorter comment but the controller of comments wouldn’t let me submit it! Way to go Amazon!).

⭐Stratton’s book fills in the gaps that most advanced engineering electromagnetic texts simply omit. Highly recommended for anyone who is not satisfied with the “handwaving” other texts use when it comes to the fundamentals of EM theory.

⭐Se ve que es un reimpresión con una encuadernación poco adecuada para un libro tan gruesoあまりにも安いから失敗してもいいやという軽い気持ちで購入しましたが、数式等がぼやけていて見づらいです。内容は非常によいので、私はオンデマンドのペーパーバックを購入しました。ペーパーバックをお勧めします。Kindle 版を購入しました。元々かなり古い本ですので、文字がつぶれて読みにくいならばまだ良いのですが、修正のために貼り付けられた数式が誤りだらけです。物理が分からなくても明らかに変であることには気づきます。購入者にも著者にも失礼ですので、早急に改訂版を出し、購入者には無料でダウンロードできるようにするべきです。電磁気学の教科書御三家(Jackson, Panofsky&Phillips, Stratton)の一つ。 著者本人が優れた論文を残した導波管の物理などの記述が詳しく、どちらかと言えば工科系向けの教科書とされているが、優れた教科書であるのは間違いない。このKindle版は拡大表示にしても数式部分は本文と一緒に拡大されないため、添え字等の判読が困難であり、読む際に非常に不便である。著作権は既に期限切れであり、ペーパーバック版ならさほど高くないので、Kindle版でなくペーパーバック版の購入を強く薦める。

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