Finished undergraduate electrodynamics: what next?

[s00mb]

I am almost finished with Griffiths intro to electrodynamics and was wondering what would be a good graduate level book on electrodynamics that I could self learn. I've also done His quantum mechanics book as well as Sakurai's quantum mechanics, and have a strong background in math (it's actually what my degree is in). My preference leans toward more mathematical rigorous books but that's just a preference any good book will do. Thanks.

 

[jtbell]

Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics is (or at least has been) pretty commonly used in graduate physics programs in the US.

If you do a forum search for "Jackson", you'll probably turn up leads to other textbooks at that level. Restrict the search to "This forum" instead of "Everywhere".

 

[Meir Achuz]

Try
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486813711/?tag=pfamazon01-20

 

[Phylosopher]

Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics is (or at least has been) pretty commonly used

Sorry to interrupt the thread. But this really caught my eyes!

I thought it is still widely used. What other textbooks are used currently as a replacement to Jackson's?

 

[jtbell]

Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics is (or at least has been) pretty commonly used

I thought it is still widely used.

I merely intended that as a "weasel phrase" in case things have changed since I was in grad school 40 years ago.

 

[smodak]

I would try 1. Barut, 2. Schwinger, and 3. Englert. I also love Charap

 

[Daverz]

This looks really interesting:

https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Classical-Electrodynamics-Regularizations-Decompositions/dp/9813222859/

 

[mpresic3]

Almost all physics graduate students use Jackson as their main text. I think Stratton is a good book for graduate EM that was probably used 50 years ago before Jackson. It seems to be at approximately the same level. I think Jackson prepares graduate students towards high energy physics research to a greater extent than Stratton, which is an older text.

Both these books are quite mathematically rigorous.
I think it strange you prefer mathematically rigorous books and then prefer Griffith.

I found Griffith Quantum Mechanics to (attempt to) solve some of his sample problems without doing any math at all.

 

[Demystifier]

My preference leans toward more mathematical rigorous books

If you want something like electrodynamics for mathematicians, then Jackson is not what you are looking for. Instead, try with
- Garrity, Electricity and Magnetism for Mathematicians
- Hehl and Obukhov, Foundations of Classical Electrodynamics
- Parrott, Relativistic Electrodynamics and Differential Geometry