Electromagnetics for Engineers 1st Edition

I used this book for my into to EM course as an undergrad. now 3 years later I am diving into antenna and radar courses which require a basic understanding of maxwell equations and the common math tools applied (vector calc, with derivations that shift between the maxwell in phasor notation and time domain). This book provides all the fundumental background necessary for engineers to apply EM theory in practice.If you are a therotical physicist then this book may seem too light, especially on the material physics side. It is a perfect intro/reference for the engineering type though.

This is a reasonable book. I would have given only 3 stars if not because of chapter 7 and on!!. The first 6 chapters are just to simplified to the point you miss a lot of useful informations and how the formulas are derived. I pretty much study the book by David K. Cheng which I gave it a 5 stars. It is Chapter 7 that impress me. The book explain the homogenous wave equation in very detail and clear. This chapter is even better than Cheng's book. Not quite complete because it does not have any of the inhomogeneous wave equation.All in all, still better than some other books.

This paperback version of the textbook had the right ISBN number, but is NOT what my class used (not exactly). Firstly, there was no CD or DVD with the solutions worked out on it like the book says it has. Secondly, all these pages were low quality xerox copy, black and white reproductions of the real textbook. All the graphics were washed out, like when you make a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy on an old xerox machine. Many random pages were loose, which I didn't find until I got to that page in the middle of the book. All in all, this is what I would expect to see if they had counterfeit textbooks. Oh, and the textbook itself was VERY poorly written; even if I had bought a regular quality printing, all the English was so awkwardly written that I spent most of my time trying to figure out what the guy was trying to write instead of working problems. Only use this book if your class has homework out of it; otherwise go with another, more literate writer.

I can say this book will help you pick up women.just the image of this book says to a girl that you can dance and move your hips like no other engineer.You will have girls melting away as you walk the corridors of the school holding this book in public.I recommend you to dress in black and grow a pony tail because it will highlight your sexual beast in you.good luck

This is essentially a truncated course book, taking some material from another book and leaving some out.The book is bound poorly, the pages fell out of both copies i had during relatively fastidious care over a normal semester. The print is bad, it looks like it was scanned from another book and then reprinted in many areas. Amazon never ships the cd/dvd that is supposed to come with the book, even after directly requesting said item.

Book has all the same information but every page looks like a photocopy and the print is dim. Would rather have the colored pictures and maybe a hardcover version of this book.

It was a surprise to have this book shipped from Thailand but it came quickly. It was a pleasant surprise to have it be a hardback instead of the paperback shown on Amazon.

I used this book to instruct a 16-week junior/senior level course in Electromagnetics for Electrical Engineers. The book starts with the fundamentals of electric charge, potential, current, and Coulomb's law. The middle portion of the book is devoted to Maxwell's equations and magnetic fields. The final chapters feature antennas and wave propagation.Strong Points: Undergraduate students will benefit from the large number of solved examples throughout the text. Answers are provided for even-numbered end-of-chapter problems. The companion CD contains further exercises and problem solutions. The layout of the book and text type make for easy reading. All important formulas and equations are clearly labeled.To summarize: the book tends towards the "cookbook" variety and contains enough material for a short course without going into more depth such as J. Kraus's book on Electromagnetics.