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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Electromagnetics

Engineering Electromagnetics

Engineering Electromagnetics is a new text aimed primarily at undergraduate teaching although it could easily serve as a reference text for those interested in the area. Electromagnetics is a notoriously unpopular topic with many engineering undergraduates. This text however provides a very comprehensive theoretical treatment of electromagnetics whilst attempting to treat the subject as a primary topic itself rather than playing a subordinate role to other courses. This is achieved by including a large and varied number of experiments and practical engineering applications, something sadly lacking in many other texts.

The book contains a rigorous treatment of all the main theoretical aspects of electromagnetics. Chapters 1 and 2 are devoted solely to vector algebra and calculus. Chapters 3 and 4 introduce electric fields and potential whilst Chapters 5 and 6 extend this into the analytical and numerical solution of electric field problems. Numerical solution techniques (finite difference and finite element) are a particular topic that is often omitted from many undergraduate textbooks. Chapter 7 concentrates on the treatment of steady current flow. Static magnetic fields and magnetic materials are introduced to the reader in Chapters 8-10. Chapter 11 is devoted to the development of Maxwell's equations whilst Chapters 12 and 13 continue the development into electromagnetic waves, propagation, reflection and transmission. The remaining six chapters focus on transmission lines including transients, waveguides and antennas. Each chapter contains many illustrations and examples, concluding with sections containing experiments with explanations, and applications and problems.

This is without doubt an impressive and comprehensive text. However it is a book that would be a useful addition to any library collection and one that I personally have found to be extremely useful in the development of undergraduate courses in electromagnetics.

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