Electromagnetism Book

[qspeechc]

Could someone please recommend a book for 2nd year Electromagnetism? The topics to be covered are:
Vector calculus (div, grad, curl), electrostatics, special techniques for potentials, electric fields in matter, magnetostatics, Magnetic fields in matter, current, Ohm's law, circuits, electromagnetic induction, electrodynamics, Maxwell's equations.

at a 2nd year level.
See, the problem is, the prescribed book for the course is D.J.Griffiths Introduction to Electrodynamics 3rd Ed.
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Electrodynamics-3rd-David-Griffiths/dp/013805326X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203522480&sr=8-1

Which is $123.00 + shipping! There's no way in hell I can afford that- I get less than that a year!
Any recommendations?

[Vid]

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=013805326X&sts=t&x=72&y=23

Theres one for $22 with $8 US shipping.

[trinitron]

http://cgi.ebay.com/GRIFFITHS-INTRODUCTION-TO-ELECTRODYNAMICS-3-E_W0QQitemZ280106725354QQihZ018QQcategoryZ2228QQrd Z1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQ_trksidZp1638.m118.l1247QQcmd ZViewItem

[malawi_glenn]

You know, there are paperback versions also ;)

But you can easly get an used copy of it, also 2nd ed will do fine.

We use this one, Its very good

http://www.amazon.com/Electromagnetic-Fields-2nd-Roald-Wangsness/dp/0471811866/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203570980&sr=8-1

This one does not come in paperback Ed's

[qspeechc]

Problem with 2nd hand books ordered from the web could be the quality of the book. Actually I dont know- I've never ordered a 2nd hand book- but I guess that would be the case.

Thank-you very much guys, you've been a great help :D

[malawi_glenn]

Problem with 2nd hand books ordered from the web could be the quality of the book. Actually I dont know- I've never ordered a 2nd hand book- but I guess that would be the case.

Thank-you very much guys, you've been a great help :D


I have got very good quality used books, and they are cheap :-)

Good luck with your course!

[qspeechc]

Thanks a lot malawi glenn.

[gc2004]

i'm not sure which country you come from, but if you're in some south-east asian country, you get these books unbelievably cheap... costs you about 3-4 american dollars... actually, there is a tie-up between the actual publishing company and some local publishing companies, and these are referred to as "low price editions" or LPEs...

[malawi_glenn]

i'm not sure which country you come from, but if you're in some south-east asian country, you get these books unbelievably cheap... costs you about 3-4 american dollars... actually, there is a tie-up between the actual publishing company and some local publishing companies, and these are referred to as "low price editions" or LPEs...

He is from:

Location:
Cape Town, South Africa

:wink:

[qspeechc]

i'm not sure which country you come from, but if you're in some south-east asian country, you get these books unbelievably cheap... costs you about 3-4 american dollars... actually, there is a tie-up between the actual publishing company and some local publishing companies, and these are referred to as "low price editions" or LPEs...

Sounds extraordinarily interesting. Can you tell me more? And yes, I am from South Africa :biggrin:

[gc2004]

there's hardly anything more to it... these are called low price editions... for example, mc graw hill becomes tata mc graw hill... there are loads of books of wiley, pearson education, mc graw hill, elsevier... one gets griffiths, goldstein, arfken, reif, berkeley course, zemansky, gasiorowicz and almost every other book extraordinarily cheap, but these books are for sale only in the indian subcontinent and in indonesia and countries like burma, vietnam... i don't think south africa is in the list... sorry!!

[malawi_glenn]

http://www.alibris.com/

this place sometimes have those book from india etc, but it maybe take some time to get them...

[qspeechc]

Thanks a lot guys, you've been extremely helpful!:smile: