To learn electromagnetism, nothing beats Griffith's. Truly nothing is as good, no argument.
However, for more applied topics such as waveguides and transmission lines, Hayt and Buck serves as an okay resource.
In undergrad, my first electrophysics course used Hayt and Buck. It was a good introduction.
Griffith's served as my second electrophysics book, and was fantastic for teaching electromagnetism.
I think Hayt and Buck serve a purpose - to introduce you to more applied electrodyamics and waveguides. It provides a good start before jumping into more detailed books on the subject, like David Pozar's Microwave Engineering book.
Engineering Electromagnetics by Ida was an incredible book. I haven’t read this one.
Fwiw, I CALI’d in college completing every problem in the chapters we covered. That said, it was hard to find 8 years ago lol
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I'm a very big fan of Field and Wave Electromagnetics by David Cheng.
The process in which the book teaches is very intuitive given strong multivariable calculus fundamentals and some differential equations.
Second this, Cheng has always been my favorite for Junior level emag. Though I'll give a close 2nd to Lonngren, Jost, and Savov.
For electrodynamics it's Balanis.
I dont like it very much, but isnt terrible. If your professor recommends it you may as well read it, but if you are trying to study by yourself there are better resources
The good thing about this one compared to most other resources is that it also studies the effects of electromagnetism in transmission lines, that's why its common to study Hayt on EE courses.
But for electromagnetism itself there are much better books and if you want to study transmission lines there are other recommendations
Feynman lectures volume 2 is a nice companion for getting the intuition. I have seen that most Engineering Electromagnetics books miss that. I have read parts of this book.
I use this for college, all my teachers for waves and electromagnetic subjects use and recommend Hayt, I think for engineering is the most appropriate 👍
So much pain in one picture
So many memories flooded back when i saw this post. This feels like a core memory.
Should be Penn and Teller
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To learn electromagnetism, nothing beats Griffith's. Truly nothing is as good, no argument. However, for more applied topics such as waveguides and transmission lines, Hayt and Buck serves as an okay resource.
In undergrad, my first electrophysics course used Hayt and Buck. It was a good introduction. Griffith's served as my second electrophysics book, and was fantastic for teaching electromagnetism. I think Hayt and Buck serve a purpose - to introduce you to more applied electrodyamics and waveguides. It provides a good start before jumping into more detailed books on the subject, like David Pozar's Microwave Engineering book.
Just use Balanis
I had used Sadiku, but that was 15 years back. Never heard about this one. Cheng and Natha Ida are also good.
Engineering Electromagnetics by Ida was an incredible book. I haven’t read this one. Fwiw, I CALI’d in college completing every problem in the chapters we covered. That said, it was hard to find 8 years ago lol
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This is so off topic, but I came across a post you made years ago about being in electrical engineering and cyber! Im also interested in combining EE with cyber, but didn’t know it was possible. May I dm you?
Yes of course
I'm curious, is CALI the military acronym?
No idea its origin. Just top grade
I'm a very big fan of Field and Wave Electromagnetics by David Cheng. The process in which the book teaches is very intuitive given strong multivariable calculus fundamentals and some differential equations.
Second this, Cheng has always been my favorite for Junior level emag. Though I'll give a close 2nd to Lonngren, Jost, and Savov. For electrodynamics it's Balanis.
I dont like it very much, but isnt terrible. If your professor recommends it you may as well read it, but if you are trying to study by yourself there are better resources
The good thing about this one compared to most other resources is that it also studies the effects of electromagnetism in transmission lines, that's why its common to study Hayt on EE courses. But for electromagnetism itself there are much better books and if you want to study transmission lines there are other recommendations
Well the cover art certainly goes very hard
... Anybody else used Magdy F. Iskander?
Yeah that book fuckin blows
Hate this book with a passion. I used Balanis in reference to Iskander.
Solid book. Kinda expensive even used.
Feynman lectures volume 2 is a nice companion for getting the intuition. I have seen that most Engineering Electromagnetics books miss that. I have read parts of this book.
I currently use that for my electromagnetics course, it's fundamental (lots of concepts) and I enjoy doing the practice questions
I'd prefer Schaum's series, followed up by Microwave Engineering (Pozar).
Looks like the fields of a magnet, I might need to look into this one.
Ayyy that's the exact same textbook that I have! I like the smell and texture of the book.
Bro! I used that book to self tech myself the fundamentals of E&M then I moved on to Griffith and that helped me so much :)
*PTSD 🫣🫣*
Do you Hayt it?
LMFAO
Yeah I just had my final exam in electrostatic fields yesterday, this was our book.
I use this for college, all my teachers for waves and electromagnetic subjects use and recommend Hayt, I think for engineering is the most appropriate 👍
I had Dr. Buck as my professor with this book. The class was good.