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Summary: Sells itself a bit short.
Review: While this is an excellent junior-course level introduction for electrodynamics, physics students may have difficulty with the course due to the lack of an answer key for the problems. Understanding is proven by the ability to solve problems in the concepts learned, but how can one be certain that they have the concepts down if they don't know if they have worked the problems correctly? Also, my prof derives much of the math that is left out of the book. This limits classtime that could be spent on concept discussion.
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Summary: There could be more important theory in the book.
Review: This book, should allow the student to be able to solve the problems just by using this book. It does not. A solution manual to this book should be provided for.Someone please e-mail me back on this.
Rating: 
Summary: Best Intro EM book Around
Review: I still refer to this book six years after having the class. This book makes the soph/junior level EM class accessable to the typical physics student. Griffiths is more concerned that the reader gains an accurate physical understanding and intuition than he is about the student's ability to muddle through annoying Diff-Eq. Not to say that there is no mathematical framework here (the first chapter is on Vector Analysis and Diff-Eq), but his goal is assist the reader in understanding of EM conceptually. He leaves the hard rigor for EM II.
Rating: 
Summary: An excellent serious first course
Review: This book is clearly designed for junior/senior level
undergraduates in physics. It combines a nice mixture of
fundamental and challenging problem sets, while providing
a solid understanding of the concepts of electrodynamics.
This is not another dry physics text, however, and Griffiths
has managed to incorporate a great deal of subtle humor into
his book. Believe me, it will make those long nights of
studying far more entertaining, and fulfilling then other
texts of similar level.
Rating:
Summary: Positives & Negatives
Review: I'll begin with the NEGATIVES because there are fewer:- No solutions and difficult end-of-chapter problems for some of the chapters make it very difficult to use this outside of a class
-Examples are good but they ill-prepare you for the end-problems POSITIVE
-Very easy to read
-Good descriptions and explanations of phenomena
-Good simple examples with straightforward solutions (would like more) Overall, I give it a 4/5. It's the first book I've used to study E&M beyond basic physics and I was mostly happy.
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Summary: What the hell is this?
Review: This book sucks. Griffths, if you can spend your most time typying FREE solution manual for instructors, and let them cut and copy it and scan them on to their class website, why don't you offer students a solution manual. Why do we have to spend 100 bucks for this thing. I really don't understand the people that wrote GOOD reviews about this book. no answers in the back. skip steps in examples, the author is trying to punk you.
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Summary: The Griffiths' Style is Great
Review: Griffiths has very deep understanding of the basics and foundations of physics, with that he writes this self-contained book of E&M.
There's hardly no handwaving things in this book(if there is, Griffiths points it out even before I could realize it), all the important physical facts have been exploered(I really like the physical interpretation of the polarization in linear media). The math is used straight and clear, in fact, if you study the first chapter carefully, there would be no math problem afterwards. The problems are well designed and placed, there're some exercises after every section, so you can test your understanding right-off. The "more problems", I used it when I revisited this book. Some people critisized that there's no solution contained, but I think if you study the book page by page, you should be able to work out most of the problems confidently.
This definately should be the first book on E&M, after read it, you'll think "ah, it's not that hard after all" and benefit from it all the time.
Rating:
Summary: Amazing Book, couldn't get by without it.
Review: Simple, clear, good examples, organized and great practice problems.
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Summary: Visual E&M
Review: I have studied six books on this subject - undergraduate and graduate level. This book by far is the most effective at providing an intuition for the subject. Griffiths presentation enabled me to explain E&M to my wife...and now she is intrigued. Behind the equations lies a story which he tells masterfully. Once you have mastered griffiths and have an understanding of the subject, maybe its time to move on to a more advanced text of derivations and proofs - Schwinger is excellent here. This is definitely the place to start after a freshman course!!
Rating:
Summary: good book
Review: Maybe its jsut that the subject is somewhat easier, but Griffiths does better here then with the quantum book.
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