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Is Jackson's Electrodynamics as hard as they say it is?
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[QUOTE="Andreol263, post: 5476251, member: 564786"] Yeah, it's really tough, Green's Functions are EXTREMELY necessary for this book, and the book will not go slow on it, it will pretend that you have mastered Green Functions, and another thing that will help it's to know some Complex Calculus, how to do the Residues Theorem, Conformapal Mapping and so on. Right now I'm reading Landau Classical Theory of Fields, which i found MUCH(really) better than Griffith in physical insight, Jackson book is really a math methods for physics book, it's only math, unlike Landau, that tries to minimize the use of mathematics in maximum and apply physical understanding of the matter to fast derive some concept, like the way that he derive the Maxwell Equations from the lagangrian,it was beautiful.And the book introduce Special Relativity, Relativistic Mechanics, Relativistic Electrodynamics and General Relativity!, the only contra that i have about this book it's that it don't cover Electrodynamics in Materials, which is covered in another volume of the series, Volume 8: Electrodynamics of Continuous Media, so if you can i recommend Landau, it's compact, beautifully explained and insightful :0 [/QUOTE]
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