Chapter 1 · Topic 7 of 7
1.7 Textbook and further reading
The course, and these notes, follow the order of topics of
- David K. Cheng, Field and Wave Electromagnetics, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley, 1989.
Other useful books are
- Matthew N. O. Sadiku, Elements of Electromagnetics, 7th edition, Oxford University Press, 2018,
- Branislav M. Notaroš, Electromagnetics, Pearson, 2010,
- and John David Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1999 (at a more advanced level).
Recap of Chapter 1
- Charges and currents are the sources. They set up fields in the space around them, and the fields act on other charges where those charges are.
- Four vector fields: [V/m] and [C/m²] (electric), [A/m] and [T] (magnetic). We work mainly with and . In free space and .
- Constants: m/s, H/m, , and in these notes F/m, so that m/F.
- The theory is built deductively: define the quantities, learn the mathematics (Chapter 2), postulate a few laws and derive everything else (Chapter 3).
- Notation: field point P at , source point Q at (primed coordinates), points from the source to the field point.