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The study of electromagnetism in higher education, as a fundamental part of both physics and electrical 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.<ref name=AAPTAPS /> 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.<ref name=AAPTAPS /> For undergraduates, there are several widely used textbooks, including David Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics and Electricity and Magnetism by Edward Purcell and David J. Morin.<ref name=kharelReview /> Also at an undergraduate level, Richard Feynman's classic Lectures on Physics is available online to read for free.<ref>Feynman, R. P.; Leighton, R. B.; Sands, M. (1964). "The Feynman Lectures on Physics". Caltech. Retrieved 31 December 2023.</ref>

Physics

Undergraduate (introductory and intermediate)

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.<ref name=kharelReview>Kharel, Savan (June 2019). "Electromagnetism textbook bridges the gap between basic and advanced". Physics Today. 72 (6): 58–59. Bibcode:2019PhT....72f..58K. doi:10.1063/PT.3.4230.</ref> Richard Feynman's Lectures on Physics also include a volume on electromagnetism that is available to read online for free, through the California Institute of Technology. In addition, there are popular physics textbooks that include electricity and magnetism among the material they cover, such as David Halliday and Robert Resnick's Fundamentals of Physics.

Graduate

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.<ref name=AAPTAPS>American Association of Physics Teachers, College Park, MD. (2006). Graduate Education in Physics. Report of the Joint AAPT-APS Task Force. Revised (PDF). Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse. OCLC 1062939013.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)</ref><ref name=ZangwillAbstract>Zangwill, Andrew (2013). "A New Textbook for Graduate Classical Electrodynamics" (PDF). American Physical Society. Retrieved September 2, 2017.[dead link]</ref> 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.<ref name=AAPTAPS /> 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."<ref name=RussReview>Russ, James S. (July 2015). "Modern Electrodynamics". American Journal of Physics. 83 (7): 660–661. Bibcode:2015AmJPh..83..660R. doi:10.1119/1.4913414.</ref>

Here is the list of some important textbooks that discuss generic physical areas of electromagnetism.

Specialized

Here is the list of some important graduate textbooks that discuss particular physical areas of electromagnetism.

There is a controversy in physics community about using different units in electromagnetism that have been discussed.<ref>Garg, A. (2018-07-01). "The Two Cultures: SI and Gaussian Units in Electromagnetism". European Journal of Physics. 39 (4): 045205. Bibcode:2018EJPh...39d5205G. doi:10.1088/1361-6404/aac233. ISSN 0143-0807. S2CID 125421368.</ref><ref>Jackson, J. D. (August 1998). Classical Electrodynamics. Wiley. pp. 775–784. ISBN 978-0-471-30932-1. Retrieved 4 January 2024.</ref>

Electrical engineering

According to a 2011 review of analytical and computational textbooks in electromagnetism by David Davidson, Julius Adams Stratton's Electromagnetic Theory remains the classic text in electromagnetism and is still regularly cited.<ref group=Note>Although Stratton's textbook originally published in 1941 and no further edition of it was ever published, but the textbook has accumulated more than 18000 citations in Google Scholar. "Electromagnetic Theory [Google Scholar]". Retrieved 12 January 2024.</ref> Davidson goes on to point out that Constantine Balanis' Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics and Roger Harrington's Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields are standard references at the post-graduate level.<ref name=davidson>Davidson, D. B. (December 2011). "A Personal Selection of Books on Electromagnetics and Computational Electromagnetics". IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. 53 (6): 156–160. Bibcode:2011IAPM...53..156D. doi:10.1109/MAP.2011.6157736. S2CID 29172053.</ref> Also for advanced undergraduate level, the textbook Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics by S. Ramo, J. R. Whinnery, and T. Van Duzer is considered as standard reference.<ref name=Woodward>Woodward, T. (March 1996). "John Whinnery on Universities, Professors, and Students". IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine. 12 (2): 42–44. doi:10.1109/MCD.1996.485912. ISSN 8755-3996. S2CID 45100872.</ref><ref name=Sugar>Sugar, R. D. (September 26, 2017). Memorial Tribute. "Simon Ramo 1913-2016". National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, D.C. 21: 330–334. doi:10.17226/24773. ISBN 978-0-309-45928-0.</ref>

Traditional differences between a physicist's point of view and an electrical engineer's point of view in studying electromagnetism have been noted. According to a 2023 lecture titled What Physicists Don't Know About Electromagnetism made by the physicist Hans G. Schantz, and based on the comparison of textbooks Electromagnetic Theory by J. A. Stratton and Classical Electrodynamics by J. D. Jackson, Schantz argues "today's physicists who are educated using curriculum out of Jackson are less informed about practical electromagnetics than their counterparts of 80 years ago", because physicists are now shifted from classical electrodynamics to quantum electrodynamics. Schantz also continues that concepts like impedance, Smith chart, antenna, and electromagnetic energy flow, are not appreciated by physicists.<ref>Schantz, H. G. (June 23, 2023). "What Physicists Don't Know About Electromagnetism". YouTube. Retrieved 21 December 2023.</ref> Mathematician Sergei Schelkunoff who made many contributions to engineering electromagnetism also noted differences between physicist's and electrical engineer's approaches in electromagnetism. According to Schelkunoff:

The classical physicist, being concerned largely with isolated transmission systems, has emphasized only one wave concept, that of the velocity of propagation or more generally of the propagation constant. But the communication engineer who is interested in "chains" of such systems from the very start is forced to adopt a more general attitude and introduce the second important wave concept, that of the impedance. The physicist concentrates his attention on one particular wave: a wave of force, or a wave of velocity or a wave of displacement. His original differential equations may be of the first order and may involve both force and velocity; but by tradition he eliminates one of these variables, obtains a second order differential equation in the other and calls it the "wave equation." Thus he loses sight of the interdependence of force and velocity waves and he does not stress the difference which may exist between waves in different media even though the velocity of wave propagation is the same. The engineer, on the other hand, thinks in terms of the original "pair of wave equations" and keeps constantly in mind this interdependence between force and velocity waves.<ref>Schelkunoff, S. A. (1943). Electromagnetic Waves. Van Nostrand. pp. vii–viii. Retrieved 21 December 2023.</ref>

The usefulness of electrical engineering's approach in solving electromagnetic problems also noted by other physicists like Robert Dicke<ref>Montgomery, C. G.; Dicke, R.H.; Purcell, E. M., eds. (2007). Principles of Microwave Circuits. IET. pp. 130–132. doi:10.1049/PBEW025E. ISBN 9781849193832. Retrieved 22 December 2023. The Archive's link refers to the first print of the book published in 1948.</ref> and Julian Schwinger.<ref>Batterman, R. W. (2021). A Middle Way: A Non-Fundamental Approach to Many-Body Physics. Oxford University. pp. 102–106. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197568613.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-756861-3. Retrieved 22 December 2023.</ref><ref>Milton, K. A. (2007). "In Appreciation Julian Schwinger: From Nuclear Physics and Quantum Electrodynamics to Source Theory and Beyond". Physics in Perspective. 9 (1): 70–114. arXiv:physics/0610054. Bibcode:2007PhP.....9...70M. doi:10.1007/s00016-007-0326-6. ISSN 1422-6944.</ref>

Many of important and classic graduate electromagnetic textbooks related to electrical engineering listed here are published or reissued by IEEE under the name of The IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory.<ref>Dudley, D. G. (2006). "The IEEE Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory". IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine. 48 (6): 126–127. doi:10.1109/MAP.2006.323368. ISSN 1558-4143. S2CID 40484203.</ref><ref group=Note>Most of the books (not all of them) published in the series are available on web page IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory in Wiley website.</ref>

Undergraduate (introductory and intermediate)

Graduate

Specialized

Radio-frequency

Metamaterials

Computational

Optics

There are also many outstanding and notable textbooks published in optics which is a branch of electromagnetism dealing with visible spectrum electromagnetic fields and waves and their interactions with matter. Here is the list of some important textbooks in different areas of classical optics. These textbooks are suitable for both physics and electrical engineering studies depending on the context.

Generic

Specialized

Light scattering

Magnetism

Another branch of electromagnetism that has been developed separately is magnetism, which is about studying magnetic properties of different materials and their interactions with electromagnetic fields. There are also many classic textbooks published in magnetism which some of them are listed here and they could be used in both physics and electrical engineering studies depending on the context.

Magnetohydrodynamics

Magnetohydrodynamics is an interdisciplinary branch of physics which deals with interaction of electromagnetic fields with conductive fluids using continuum model. Magnetohydrodynamics combines classical electromagnetism with fluid mechanics by combination of Maxwell equations with Navier-Stokes equations. This relatively new branch of physics was first developed by Hannes Alfvén in a 1942 paper published in Nature titled Existence of Electromagnetic-Hydrodynamic Waves.<ref>Alfvén, H. (October 1, 1942). "Existence of Electromagnetic-Hydrodynamic Waves". Nature. 150 (3805): 405–406. Bibcode:1942Natur.150..405A. doi:10.1038/150405d0. ISSN 0028-0836. S2CID 4072220.</ref> In 1950 Alfvén published a textbook titled Cosmical Electrodynamics which considered as the seminal work in the field of magnetohydrodynamics.<ref>Fälthammar, C. G.; Dessler, A J. (2006). "Hannes Alfvén (30 May 1908 - 2 April 1995)". American Philosophical Society. 150 (4): 649–662. ISSN 0003-049X. JSTOR 4599032.</ref> There are also two closely related fields to the traditional field of magnetohydrodynamics which are called electrohydrodynamics and ferrohydrodynamics. Electrohydrodynamics deals with interaction of electromagnetic fields with weakly conductive fluids<ref>Zhakin, A. I. (2012). "Electrohydrodynamics". Physics-Uspekhi. 55 (5): 465–488. Bibcode:2012PhyU...55..465Z. doi:10.3367/UFNe.0182.201205b.0495. ISSN 1063-7869. S2CID 250864459.</ref> and ferrohydrodynamics deals with interaction of electromagnetic fields with magnetic fluids. Today magnetohydrodynamics and its related fields have many applications in plasma physics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, astrophysics, geophysics and many other scientific branches. Here is the list of some important textbooks in different areas of electro-magneto-ferro-hydrodynamics.

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