Classical Electromagnetic Radiation, Third Edition (Dover Books on Physics) by Mark A. Heald (PDF)

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This newly corrected, highly acclaimed text offers intermediate-level juniors and first-year graduate students of physics a rigorous treatment of classical electromagnetics. The authors present a very accessible macroscopic view of classical electromagnetics that emphasizes integrating electromagnetic theory with physical optics. The survey follows the historical development of physics, culminating in the use of four-vector relativity to fully integrate electricity with magnetism.Starting with a brief review of static electricity and magnetism, the treatment advances to examinations of multipole fields, the equations of Laplace and Poisson, dynamic electromagnetism, electromagnetic waves, reflection and refraction, and waveguides. Subsequent chapters explore retarded potentials and fields and radiation by charged particles; antennas; classical electron theory; interference and coherence; scalar diffraction theory and the Fraunhofer limit; Fresnel diffraction and the transition to geometrical optics; and relativistic electrodynamics. A basic knowledge of vector calculus and Fourier analysis is assumed, and several helpful appendices supplement the text. An extensive Solutions Manual is also available.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Professor Emeritus Mark A. Heald was on the faculty of Swarthmore College’s Department of Physics and Astronomy for 33 years.Jerry Marion (1929–52) published the original edition of this volume in 1965 under the imprint of Academic Press.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐This third edition, I gather especially for Dover, is an exceptionally clear and comprehensive presentation of electromagnetic radiation. Years ago my introduction was through Stratton and then Jackson, Stratton gave a great basis for engineers and Jackson was sine qua non at the time. This book is neither of those but a great book for understanding the various EM radiations issues. It presents transmission lines, wave guides, antennas all in the classic manner.The level of presentation is great for either the physicist or the engineer.The authors then continue to present details on interference, diffraction, and relativistic effects. Overall one obtains the depth and breathe necessary to move on to more specific applications.The major strength of the book is the clarity of presentation and the inclusive nature of all key radiation issues.My only negative relates to the extensive nature of the coverage. If one were to present this as a full year senior course, or introductory grad course then there must be a good instructor to balance the information, the book does require some balance, since there is just so much material presented.Overall it contains just about everything one would want to be available, albeit not coverable in a standard class.

⭐When I received my copy of this book, I was completely appalled to find that the entire *chapter* on spherical scalar waves present in the 1960 edition had been completely cut. There is no treatment nor even *mention* of spherical Bessel functions, which are incredibly important for scattering and magnetic diffusion in a spherical geometry. I don’t know what the author of this edition was thinking, but they removed the chapter that was my entire reason for purchasing this book. This seems a fitting reason to award a low review to a reference text.

⭐It’s a good book for EM.However, the kindle-e version of the book was really bad. Be aware that the equations were not in latex form, and the picture of the equations were blur and hard to see.This appeared to many other science book for kindle e-reader as well, such as numerical relativity by masaru shibata, and some other Dover publication’s books.Basically, if you really want to read to this book in a class setting, kindle-e version ought not be the number one choice and a paper version was preferred.

⭐Me agrada. Aplicación de la Teoría Electromagnética a sistemas moleculareswell organized, clearly written. provides detail on certain difficult topics that often are clossed over by other texts. would recommend this book to others

⭐it has quite good quality but i should spent too much time to got it. anyway it’s good book for me

⭐This book is a good introduction to the subject of classical electromagnetic radiation. However, there are several things I did not like: the authors do not dwell into the solution of boundary value problems using Green’s functions, and they use an old notation for the relativistic treatment of electromagnetic theory, which makes it difficult to compare results between different books (in my case, with Jackson’s). Also, I did not like the way they treat multipole expansion. Other than that this book is useful, and the solutions manual is available online, so it can be used as a problem book.

⭐Um preço sensacional pra uma obra muito boa!Excellent book.

⭐A good applied reference text

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