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Summary: I Only gave 1 star because there was NOTHING BELOW!!!!
Review: As an electrical Engineering student, I studies this book. Unfortunately I did this book in three consecutive courses. This was by far the WORST book I have ever used. The book is filled with mistakes, the explanation is very tideous and confusing, and the subjects are distributed in a strange jumbled way. My advice... If there is a way of you not using this book, DON'T!
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Summary: A lot of review
Review: I found this book easy to follow with lots of examples. My teacher wasn't the greatest, but the book made the class easier.The extensive mathematics review in the beginning became very boring. It was reteaching everything from previous classes. Other than that, I didn't have any problems.
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Summary: A lot of review
Review: I found this book easy to follow with lots of examples. My teacher wasn't the greatest, but the book made the class easier. The extensive mathematics review in the beginning became very boring. It was reteaching everything from previous classes. Other than that, I didn't have any problems.
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Summary: Not a terrible book
Review: The book is well written and relatively easy to follow (for an EM book). I do have a problem with the problems at the end of each chapter. The book gives the answers to odd problems. Frequently these answers are incorrect. Also, many of the problems do not seem to have a "simple" closed form solution. I've wasted quite a bit of time working through complex calculus to come to the realization that there is no "simple" solution. These problems would require a numerical analysis software package to come to a solution. I don't think that was the author's intent. I suspect this is another example of a professor using graduate slave labor to write and/or proof read the problems at the end of each chapter. The number of worked-out example problems within the chapter bodies seems to be representative of that found in good text books I like. IMHO there could have been more examples though. Overall the body of each chapter is well written but the problems at the end of each chapter have caused me quite a bit of frustration.
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Summary: Complete ...
Review: The solutions provided are chock full of errors (estimate at least 25% are dead wrong). Erroneous solutions are worse than no solutions for students trying to learn such difficult material. How this sorry saga can continue with the Third Edition can only be attributed to extreme incompetence and/or extreme indifference by the recipient of the $$$ royalties.
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Summary: FULL OF ERRORS - MANY OTHER BETTER BOOKS
Review: The solutions provided are chock full of errors (estimate at least 25% are dead wrong). Erroneous solutions are worse than no solutions for students trying to learn such difficult material. How this sorry saga can continue with the Third Edition can only be attributed to extreme incompetence and/or extreme indifference by the recipient of the $$$ royalties.
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Summary: Complete ...
Review: Theory wise, the book exposes things relatively well. However, I cannot get over how thoroughly maddening it is to be second-guessing the answers in the back of the book when you're trying to learn by doing. For ...sake, it's the 3rd edition and it's still full of errors! Inexcusable! There's no way to build confidence in problem solving when many of the solutions to the odd numbered problems are wrong! No matter how clear the theory, it's still a work in progress, incomplete at best. It is, quite frankly, shameful to be passing this book off as some sort of learning tool.
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Summary: Littered with errors
Review: This book presents an excellent coverage of electromagnetics. The format was beneficial to first-time students because it presented all the mathematics up-front in the first three chapters. The given examples were difficult, but easy to understand because they were well explained. My only (and significant)complaint was that AC circuit theory was not even discussed. AC circuit theory and the complex solution method is an essential element of electromagnetics and should certainly be covered in this text. As a second year Chemical-Physics student this text provided an excellent source of study except in the areas mentioned.
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Summary: not a good source of understanding
Review: treat it like a second rate reference manual, not a proper textbook. For some good understand of electromagnetisim and Maxwell's equations look into the Feynman Lectures on physics, the second volume.
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