List of textbooks in electromagnetism

The study of electromagnetism in higher education, as a fundamental part of both physics and engineering, is typically accompanied by textbooks devoted to the subject. The American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers recommend a full year of graduate study in electromagnetism for all physics graduate students.^[1] A joint task force by those organizations in 2006 found that in 76 of the 80 US physics departments surveyed, a course using John David Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics was required for all first year graduate students.^[1] For undergraduates, there are several widely used textbooks, including David Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics and Electricity and Magnetism by Edward Mills Purcell and D. J. Morin^[2] Also at an undergraduate level, Richard Feynman's classic The Feynman Lectures on Physics is available online to read for free.

UndergraduateEdit

Front cover of Griffiths' Electrodynamics (fourth edition)

There are several widely used undergraduate textbooks in electromagnetism, including David Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics as well as Electricity and Magnetism by Edward Mills Purcell and D. J. Morin^[2] The Classic lecture series Feynman's Lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman also includes a volume on electromagnetism that is available to read online for free, through the California Institute of Technology.

Author	Title	Year	Units	Publication	Reception and use
Richard P. Feynman	The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume 2 and parts of volume 1)	1963	SI[3]	Addison-Wesley[4]	[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][3][12][13]
Edward Mills Purcell	Electricity and Magnetism	1985 (2nd ed.)	Gaussian[3]	McGraw-Hill[14]	[15][16][3]
David Griffiths	Introduction to Electrodynamics	2012 (4th ed.)	SI[3]	Addison-Wesley[17]	[18][19][2][3]
Edward Mills Purcell and D. J. Morin	Electricity and Magnetism	2013 (3rd ed.)	SI[3]	Cambridge University Press[20]	[21][22][2][3]
Melvin Schwartz	Principles of Electrodynamics	1987		Dover Publications[23]	[24]
Gerald L. Pollack and Daniel R. Stump	Electromagnetism	2002	SI[25]	Addison Wesley[26]	[25]
Wayne M. Saslow	Electricity, Magnetism, and Light	2002	SI[3]	Academic Press[27]	[28][29][3]
Roald K. Wangsness	Electromagnetic Fields	2007 (2nd ed.)		John Wiley & Sons[30]	[31]
I.S. Grant and W.R. Phillips	Electromagnetism	2008 (2nd ed.)		John Wiley & Sons[32]	[33]
John R. Reitz, Frederick J. Milford, and Robert W. Christy	Foundations of Electromagnetic Theory	2008 (4th ed.)		Addison Wesley[34]	[35][36][37][38]

GraduateEdit

Front dust cover of Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics (third edition)

A 2006 report by a joint taskforce between the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers found that 76 of the 80 physics departments surveyed require a first-year graduate course in John David Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics.^[39][1] This made Jackson's book the most popular textbook in any field of graduate-level physics, with Herbert Goldstein's Classical Mechanics as the second most popular with adoption at 48 universities.^[1] In a 2015 review of Andrew Zangwill's Modern Electrodynamics in the American Journal of Physics, James S. Russ claims Jackson's textbook has been "[t]he classic electrodynamics text for the past four decades" and that it is "the book from which most current-generation physicists took their first course."^[40]

Author	Title	Year	Units	Publication	Reception and use
Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz	The Classical Theory of Fields (Course of Theoretical Physics volume 2)	1980 (4th ed.)	Gaussian[3]	Butterworth Heinemann[41]	[42][43][44][45][46][47][48][3]
Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz	Electrodynamics of Continuous Media (Course of Theoretical Physics volume 8)	1984 (2nd ed.)	Gaussian	Butterworth Heinemann[49]	[50][51][52][53]
John David Jackson	Classical Electrodynamics	1975 (2nd ed.)	Gaussian[3]	Wiley[54]	[55][56][57][58][3][40][59]
John David Jackson	Classical Electrodynamics	1999 (3rd ed.)	Mixed[60]	Wiley[61]	[62][63][64][65][3][1][40]
Julian Schwinger	Classical Electrodynamics	1998	Gaussian[3]	Perseus Books[66]	[67][68][69][3]
Charles A. Brau	Modern Problems in Classical Electrodynamics	2004	SI[3]	Oxford University Press[70]	[71][72][3]
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky and Melba Phillips	Classical Electricity and Magnetism	2005 (2nd ed.)		Dover Publications[73]	[74][75][76][77]
Anupam Garg	Classical Electromagnetism in a Nutshell	2012	Gaussian[3]	Princeton University Press[78]	[79][3]
Andrew Zangwill	Modern Electrodynamics	2013	SI[3]	Cambridge University Press[80]	[81][82][3]

Engineering textbooksEdit

According to a 2011 review of textbooks in electromagnetics and computational electromagnetics by David B. Davidson, Julius Adams Stratton's Electromagnetic Theory remains the classic text in electromagnetics and is still regularly cited.^[83] Davidson goes on to point out that Constantine A. Balanis' Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics and Roger F. Harrington's Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields are standard references at the post-graduate level.^[83]

Author	Title	Level	Year	Publication	Reviews and use
Hermann A. Haus	Electromagnetic Fields and Energy	Introductory[83]	1989	Prentice-Hall[84]	[83]
Simon Ramo	Fields and waves in communication electronics	Introductory[83]	2008	Wiley[85]	[86][83]
Julius Adams Stratton	Electromagnetic Theory	General[83]	2007	Wiley-IEEE Press[87]	[83]
Weng Cho Chew	Waves and Fields in Inhomogenous Media	Post-graduate[83]	1999	Wiley[88]	[83]
Roger F. Harrington	Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields	Post-graduate[83]	2001	Wiley[89]	[90][83]
Constantine A. Balanis	Advanced engineering electromagnetics	Post-graduate[83]	2012	Wiley[91]	[92][93][83]
Richard C. Booton	Computational methods for electromagnetics and microwaves	Computational techniques[83]	1992	Wiley[94]	[95][96]
Weng Cho Chew, J. Jin, E. Michielssen, and Jiming Song	Fast and Efficient Algorithms in Computational Electromagnetics	Computational techniques[83]	2001	Artech House[97]	[98]
J. Jin	The Finite Element Method in Electromagnetics	Computational techniques[83]	2002 (2nd ed.)	IEEE Press[99]	[100][101]
Allen Taflove and Susan C. Hagness	Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method	Computational techniques[83]	2005 (3rd ed.)	Artech House[102]	[103]
Carl Theodore Adolf Johnk	Engineering electromagnetic fields and waves	General	1988	Wiley[104]	[105]
Percy Hammond	Electromagnetism for engineers : an introductory course	Introductory	1997	Oxford University Press[106]	[107][108]

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