Electromagnetism

Rating:
Summary: Great Text
Review: Goes into much more detail than other undergraduate E&M texts, so it will never leave you hanging on the math. Discussion is also extremely clear and easy to follow. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who is taking an undergraduate E&M course.

Rating:
Summary: Not bad
Review: I used this book for a 2 semester course in E&M. I absolutely hated it for the first semester, but it's merits became apparent during the second semester. The treatment of statics is inadequate at best, but Pollack and Stump do a great job from the chapter on Maxwell's equations on. The chapter on relativity and tensors alone makes this book a worthwhile buy. I would suggest using Griffith's for statics and Pollack and Stump for dynamics, but given the cost of both books thats probably going to be an expensive proposition.

Rating:
Summary: This is THE book to get to study E/M
Review: Whether or not you are a student in the engineering or physics field, you SHOULD get this book to help you learn E/M. What I like about this book is that the author really explains things well. It's complete and to-the-point. After reading this book, not only your understanding of E/M would increase tenfold, your mathematical ability strengthens along with it too!

However, beware though, I do think that this book is not really for beginner. You must be rather strong in vector calculus. Even if you are not, the book starts out by reviewing vector calculus anyway. But I am saying that you will really appreciate more if you had some background before hand.

The only bad thing about this book is that the author only spent 3 pages talking about numerical methods, which I think is not sufficient enough, consider the fact that numerical methods are essential even in the study of physics.

Despite this shortcoming, THIS BOOK IS BY FAR THE BEST!!! Buy it with Griffith's book, this is ALL you ever need!!