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I will read these books to see what I can learn from them, I expect, though that many of the things explained will be familiar to me since I have dedicated a lot of time to learn about electromagnetism after the school, my learning process might have been a bit irregular but not unuseful.

The idea is to reference specific articles on the topic being covered, right? I suppose these articles will contain the state of the art on that topic and not Wikipedia or textbooks. However, although it is necessary to read and reference these articles I have a doubt: should also well-known...

Yes, I did an electromagnetic semester and then other subjects closely related as Antennas and fiber optics.

Your comment helps me to understand why in the academic circles people mistrust Wikipedia, I may have trusted too much on it.

I am Telecommunications Engineer, then I have studied physics on my own.

Dr Transport, I must admit I have learned in a quite irregular way, I understand that reading some remarkable book on the area would give me some insights and help me to consolidate my knowledge, maybe it can make me see that there is an error in my ideas or they are simply pointless. Could...

From my experience, the formulas from Wikipedia, except very rare cases, are correct and lead to coherent results when linking them together. I also check the formulas and contents in other materials on the internet or in textbooks before taking a formula for valid, that is how I trust in what...

Thank you for this advice, I will read some references for each topic.

Summary:: I need to add references for several classical electromagnetism concepts, I would like to know which books deal with these concepts. Recently a paper about classical electromagnetism that I had submitted was rejected, among other reasons because it contained many references to...

It seems experimental physics has shown that either the “elements of reality” do not exist, or they can be used to describe a very limited set of features, not the whole reality. However, I think another interpretation of what is a "hidden variable" is possible: the wave function is the...

I miss this type of explanations in the physics books because even for people not especially strong at maths this derivation will be doable but, what if you first try to do other things to figure out the derivation, you may end losing a lot of time in the process of understanding it.

The use of the reduced mass is restricted to the scenario of frontal approach, that is the reason why this formula is not widely used to explain the phenomenon, since the use of general expressions is in general preferable.

The electromagnetic density of momentum and the Poynting vector differ in a 1/c^2 factor but everywhere I look I see p = S/c^2. The Poynting vector contains the intensity of EM energy flowing through a surface, it makes sense that the magnetic momentum is the intensity of "relativistic...

Sorry, I did a mistake in my calculations, p(X) is really 0, there is nothing weird on it.

I learned that the Poynting vector was the electromagnetic density of momentum but recently, while reading the Electromagnetic_stress–energy_tensor article at Wikipedia, I thought about the implications of the momentum conservation equation and arrived to an inconsistency, this equation is...