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Summary: The Brightest Physics Students will Avoid this One
Review: I disagree. Jackson simply presents several topics in an incoherant and slapdash fashion. There's a great deal of material in this book but Jackson doesn't do it justice. The brightest students will save their money and never buy this one. It's overrated and the problems are not difficult, just vaguely worded or occasionally algebraically messy.
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Summary: A good text book which no physics student should miss it.
Review: This book is difficult, but if you spend some more time, you will it is very helpful. It will help you to understand the fundamental.
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Summary: Graduate Text And More
Review: I laughed, I cried, I did a lot of problems. In the end it became clear: I would rather be poked in the eye with a sharp stick.
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Summary: excellent reference
Review: Jackson is a classic for a reason. It's one of the most useful reference books I have in the lab.
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Summary: The Third Edition is Disappointing
Review: Will the fourth edition be clearer? Jackson remains a standard text but not a good one. The only improvement in the third edition is that Jackson has finally conceeded and uses S.I. notation at least for several chapters. More examples would be helpful.
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Summary: Warning to the Uninitiated
Review: This book should not be used for dydactic purposes. As I have stated empathically for the second edition, this book (now even in revision) fails to teach. Though the book presents an admirable breadth of topics, it should not be considered a classic. The author frequently omits vital steps, and there are simply too few examples. Unless the reader has previously been exposed to the material, reading and understanding is a torturously onerous task and a waste of time. The problems are usually challenging but occasionally a bit tedious. It seems to me that the use of Jackson as a standard text book is a bit akin to the use of wooden paddles in fraternity ceremonies. The professors got wacked and so must the next generation of uninitiates.
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Summary: It is a shame that this text is considered a classic.
Review: The author fails to communicate the fundementals clearly. He presents a myriad of topics quickly and without consideration for individuals who would like to learn. Possibly, the sheer number of topics covered in this book redeems it a bit, but only in the sense that the book may be used as a reference in a library. Or better yet, it may be used as a footstool so that I can reach higher on the book shelf to obtain a copy of Griffiths to help elucidate this text. One thing is certain, the problems at the end of each chapter are challenging, and that's why I gave the book two stars instead of one.
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Summary: A classic text for a classic subject.
Review: As someone who learned the ups and downs of electromagnetic radiation from the first edition of this text, I can highly recommend it to those who want a thorough treatment of the subject and do not mind being faced with problems that require genuine labor.
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Summary: THE graduate text on electrodynamics
Review: This is the textbook for the classic
weed-out graduate course in physics.
The problems are notorious. If you can solve
every problem in this book by age 24, then you
have a good chance of winning the Nobel prize
later in life. Better make your mark now before all the solutions are posted to the
Internet...
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Summary: Third edition coming in 1998!
Review: I am pleased with the reception of CE2, as evidenced by the reviews from readers. A third edition is to appear in 1998 - among the many changes are SI units in two thirds of the book, optical fibers, wigglers and undulators, and lots of new problems
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