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Major sources

The textbooks which I have consulted most frequently whilst developing course material are:
Classical electricity and magnetism:
W.K.H. Panofsky, and M. Phillips, 2nd edition (Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 1962).
The Feynman lectures on physics:
R.P. Feynman, R.B. Leighton, and M. Sands, Vol. II (Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 1964).
Special relativity:
W. Rindler (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh & London UK, 1966).
Electromagnetic fields and waves:
P. Lorrain, and D.R. Corson, 3rd edition (W.H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco CA, 1970).
Electromagnetism:
I.S. Grant, and W.R. Phillips (John Wiley & Sons, Chichester UK, 1975).
Foundations of electromagnetic theory:
J.R. Reitz, F.J. Milford, and R.W. Christy, 3rd edition (Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 1980).
The classical theory of fields:
E.M. Lifshitz, and L.D. Landau, 4th edition [Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford UK, 1980].
Introduction to electrodynamics:
D.J. Griffiths, 2nd edition (Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs NJ, 1989).
Classical electromagnetic radiation:
M.A. Heald, and J.B. Marion, 3rd edition (Saunders College Publishing, Fort Worth TX, 1995).
Classical electrodynamics:
W. Greiner (Springer-Verlag, New York NY, 1998).
In addition, the section on vectors is largely based on my undergraduate lecture notes taken from a course given by Dr. Stephen Gull at the University of Cambridge.


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Richard Fitzpatrick 2006-02-02