🧵 Electrodynamics Chaichian
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:07:08 UTC No. 16097372
I already self studied electromagnetics at the first year level. I want to use either pic related or griffiths text to learn electrodynamics. If you have experience with either texts then i ask how was it learning from them. I want to choose the better one to learn from so i can do as many problems by only using the textbook itself as a resource.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:25:41 UTC No. 16097420
Chaican is a good book. I used it to review EM for my masters.
But imo, it's more efficient to go through a problem book. Like Likharev's Essential Graduate Physics, there's a free legal pdf for it, and you can email the prof for solution. Or Springer's Solved Problems in EM, iirc. Pretty recent book.
Depending how much of a joke your university curriculum is, Purcell is probably not a bad idea too. Now in SI.
The nice thing about Griffiths and Jackson is the solutions are available online. IMHO.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:26:16 UTC No. 16097765
>>16097420
Thank you, Chaichian must be good if you used it to review your undergraduate EM for your masters degree. I'll probably use that instead as my first introduction to 3rd year electrodynamics instead of griffiths.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:28:07 UTC No. 16097769
zangwill.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:07:24 UTC No. 16097801
>>16097372
Griffiths is a very thorough and readable electrodynamics text that covers a lot more than it is usually given credit for. The problems also introduce some of the more advanced stuff that appears in e.g. Jackson. It's been a long time since I've used Griffiths as a student but I TAed a class using it a few years ago and it had some interesting problems.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:51:53 UTC No. 16097901
>>16097372
> not Jackson
NGMI
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:53:56 UTC No. 16097902
>>16097420
>The nice thing about Jackson is the solutions are available online. IMHO.
They are horrendous and unreliable. That's the beauty of it.