PHYS 435 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Course Materials

Required Materials

Introduction to Electrodynamics (3rd or 4th ed.), Griffiths.

Supplementary Reading:

The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume II), Feynman, Leighton, Sands (1970, 2005)

Other books: (on reserve in the Grainger library)

Classical Electrodynamics (3rd Ed.), Jackson
The standard graduate level text.
Classical Electricity and Magnetism, Panofsky and Phillips
Somewhat advanced, but more accessible than Jackson.
Electricity and Magnetism, Nayfeh
Has been the text in the past, I think.
Electricity and Magnetism, Purcell
The Berkeley "honors" text. Has good insights.
Books that I know less about (I list the authors only)
Pollack, Reitz, Marion, Lorrain, Schwartz.