Electricity and Magnetism
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For 50 years, Edward M. Purcell's classic textbook has introduced students to the world of electricity and magnetism. The third edition has been brought up to date and is now in SI units. It features hundreds of new examples, problems, and figures, and contains discussions of real-life applications. The textbook covers all the standard introductory topics, such as electrostatics, magnetism, circuits, electromagnetic waves, and electric and magnetic fields in matter. Taking a nontraditional approach, magnetism is derived as a relativistic…
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Key features
- Revised and updated edition of a classic textbook, with Gaussian units now converted to SI units
- Hundreds of exercises, worked examples and illustrative figures have been added
- Applications at the end of each chapter enable students see how the concepts relate to the real world
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139012973
- Subjects Classical Physics,Electromagnetics,Engineering,Physics and Astronomy
- Format: Hardback
- Publication date: 14 March 2013
- ISBN: 9781107014022
- Dimensions (mm): 234 x 203 mm
- Weight: 1.63kg
- Contains: 614 b/w illus. 592 exercises
- Page extent: 853 pages
- Availability: In stock
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 01 February 2019
- ISBN: 9781139012973
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