Electromagnetic Fields and Waves

by Paul Lorrain, Dale R. Corson, François Lorrain

Since its original publication in 1962, Lorrain and Corson's text has offered physics and engineering students a formula for developing a working knowledge of the basic principles of electromagnetism. The formula is practice.

Genres: Physics, Science, Reference

754 pages, Hardcover

First published August 24, 1970

Reviews

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honest take on Electromagnetic Fields and Waves: it's beautiful, sad, and so slow I started timing my page turns. Paul Lorrain writes about a shuttered mill town with real love, and the scene where the whole street gathers to watch the old smokestack come down, nobody talking, is one of the most moving things I've read this year. It's a lot of mood and not much movement. For readers who like atmosphere and ache. Skip it if you get restless without a plot.

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Electromagnetic Fields and Waves is a heavy-hitting reminder from Lorrain, Paul that official history is just a curated highlight reel designed to legitimize current leadership.

[Silas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Honestly, E&M is one of the most difficult subjects for me within Physics. This book did a good job helping to untangle the knotted yarn ball of E&M to me.

[Alberto · Rating 5 out of 5]

A unique presentation of special relativity which is completely and inexplicably missing from the undergraduate curriculum. You can't understand how electricity and magnetism are related in a non-relativistic framework.