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Product Description
The material for these volumes has been selected from the past twenty years' examination questions for graduate students at University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, MIT, State University of New York at Buffalo, Princeton University and University of Wisconsin. This volume comprises 440 problems and is divided into five parts: (I) Electrostatics;
(II) Magnetostatic Field and Quasi-Stationary Electromagnetic Field;
(III) Circuit Analysis;
(IV) Electromagnetic Waves;
(V) Relativistic Particle-Field Interactions.
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 A real gem!!! October 29, 1999
Ethan Creech
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
The entire series is my savior. Each volume covers the material needed in the junior/senior level of physics. It truly has an emense selection of problems. I found that nearly all of my homework/exams were either exactly the same or merely a slight variation from one contained. I also have yet to find a single error, not even a sign error. One important thing is that it does need to be a supplement, as formulas are sometimes used without explicit reference to why. In general the reasons need to be found in an assigned text. My only gripe (and it is minor) is with the index...the index does not, in general, lead one to a relevent problem. For example, uses of Biot/Savart to solve this problem or that... The reason this is not a serious problem is that each topic has so many variations on the method/technique that it is simple enough to find at least a couple that are completely relevent. (given you know which section to look in)
One of the most useful books I have ever purchased January 16, 2002
Reviewer (Near Columbus, OH United States)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I purchased this book to assist me in my graduate courses using Jackson's text. Many of the homework assignments were actually problems taken from qualifying exams at different universites, so this book was very helpful for those problems. As for the Jackson problems, one will be lucky to find any help at all (too bad). I strongly recommend this to anyone who is pursuing a graduate physics degree, not only because it is an excellent handbook for the qualifying exam and homework assignments, but also because it is a very well organized source of information on the subject of Electromagnetism.In addition to this text, I have also purchased the volumes on Quantum Mechanics and Mechanics. Both are as useful as this text, though I have to say that all of them lack a comprehensive index. There are also some errors, but they are few and far between. Also, these books do not provide background on any equations used. They may say something like "With the application of Schrodinger's Equation, this becomes...", yet in the same problem there may have been a step where De Moivre's theorem was applied and the authors have neglected to mention it. I suppose this is useful because if one is using the book as a study guide, it would not be instructive unless one was actually working out the problem, so it is up to the reader to uncover the little details.
Best preparation! April 19, 2006
Physicsmind (CA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is theeeeee most comprehensive book on the subject!! if you want to dig into E&M further, check out his book on Introduction to Classical Electrodynamics by Y. K. Lim
9971978857 ?IIt's very helpful!! With them, you should have no problem passing the Ph.D. Qual! Good luck!
Studying for your PhD exams? If so, buy this book! January 29, 2002
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you work and understand every problem in this book, you will pass your Electrodynamics Ph.D. qualifying exams! That's was my experience!
 An Invaluable Resource September 9, 2009
Jason Francis (Corvallis, OR)
This book is an invaluable resource, providing a huge selection of problems to work on and solutions that can help you if you get stuck. It also gives a very good overview of the types of problems that are likely to appear on qualifying exams (though the exams from your own school are more useful for that).
These books are about preparing for qualifiers, not teaching the material. It is assumed that the reader already knows what they're doing and just wants to work through problems, so of course there are scant explanations. I found it useful to work through the problems and make notes of relevant equations that I had forgotten.
My only real complaint is that the index is utterly useless, although that's a minor drawback.
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