Engineering Electromagnetics 8th Edition by William Hayt (PDF)

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First published just over 50 years ago and now in its Eighth Edition, Bill Hayt and John Buck’s Engineering Electromagnetics is a classic text that has been updated for electromagnetics education today. This widely-respected book stresses fundamental concepts and problem solving, and discusses the material in an understandable and readable way. Numerous illustrations and analogies are provided to aid the reader in grasping the difficult concepts. In addition, independent learning is facilitated by the presence of many examples and problems. Important updates and revisions have been included in this edition. One of the most significant is a new chapter on electromagnetic radiation and antennas. This chapter covers the basic principles of radiation, wire antennas, simple arrays, and transmit-receive systems.

User’s Reviews

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⭐If you have any choice in the matter find a different E&M book. Most of the reviews here are spot on. I get that E&M is hard and you would have to search long and hard to find a well reviewed E&M book, but that doesn’t excuse this books failings.To start with this book is poorly written in many respects. Explanations are often quite hand-wavy and the examples often do not go into enough depth to be followed. Physical descriptions are butchered numerous times throughout the text, and analogies that should make things easier to understand often only add to the overall confusion. This is not coming from someone who was ill prepared for this course. I had a solid math background including vector calculus, and I had taken a previous physics course in E&M. In general I found myself reading this book, getting frustrated and confused, and then realizing I already had learned how to do this before and looking up the topic online. I accept being confused about new things, but a book should not confuse me on a topic I already know.This problem sets in this book hardly deserve a single star. The problems deviate a bit further from what was presented in the text than I would think proper. This makes an external resource necessary to solve many problems. Many questions are so poorly worded that the problem can be interpreted in multiple ways each with a unique solution, and the student is left to guess how they should interpret the problem. Even if you do guess the right interpenetration you will often find you have been marked wrong by the grader because either the instructor solution manual was wrong, or the problem in the book was wrong. Many of the solutions in the grading book have corrected problem text that changes the answer and it expects you to solve the corrected problem instead of the one in the book. Some of these are listed in the substantial list of errata available online, but others are not. This can be infuriating if the professor is not aware that the students have no way of seeing the corrected problem statement without the answers.

⭐The only changes in this version VS. the previous versions are Chapter Swaps, and problem number swaps.The only reason I purchased this book was because it was a required book for class. If you are purchasing to learn about the subject, it is a very informative book, but I highly recommend just picking up an older edition. They are essentially the same. Very little has changed since the 6th edition, they just changed the chapters around, and the problem numbers around, just to rake in money from students.I would not buy if not required.I would even recommend the 7th or 6th edition over the 8th edition, because many of the problem sets are very complicated and introduce their own ideas. The 7th and 6th edition have available solution manuals that are almost necessary. If you can answer all the problems without any help, you must already have an EE degree.

⭐so being a student who has taken all my math classes, but only taken circuits one this book is frustratingly mundane, laborious and absolutely poorly explained. If you have a doctorate in math or engineering it probably makes sense, but not to the average engineering student.Tonight as I was studying it finally clicked what this book so poorly lacked compared to any other science book I have read. That is that most books give enough explanation leading up to the high point of a chapter it can be understood or at least grasped. Most books also pull a few key concepts from other chapters and explain why they are being used and how to use them. this book assumes anyone reading it has an advanced knowledge of electromagnetics and somehow remembers everything from physics 2 and all previous chapters poorly explained. Because of this, they take a swim or die approach in just throwing everything at you with little explanation and expect that it can be done. an example of this is when the author explains a concept in theoretical terms, gives an example in theoretical terms and then gives no explanation of how you would solve a problem with any worded examples. Now you have homework assigned and no good examples to return to for thorough explanations of what to look for because even when a question is asked it usually uses one or two formulas poorly explained a chapter or two back.This book does not teach, its more of a reference guide. In short this book is made for someone who already completed their degree.

⭐This book has all the information you may need for the course and detail explanation. Although it is vague a little in some places. One thing they could add the result/answers to the problems.

⭐Water damaged and unable to return because my class is requiring to read the chapter and do homework from it.

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