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Review: One of the best books on the subject - Purcell takes an unconventional approach in this book. Most of the electromagnetics is derived from three laws in this book: Coulomb's law, charge invariance, and special theory of relativity. This approach is especially beautiful and fruitful as the reader can make deep connections between electricity and magnetism. Yet, the book is easy to digest as most of the material is explained over experiments with very useful illustrations. The clarity and precise language with which the material is presented almost qualifies the text for bedtime reading. Finally, each chapter ends with practical applications of the topics covered.
Review: It's clean and definitely new - It's clean and definitely new. Moreover, the shipping is faster than usual which is out of my expectation. The book is really helpful for my Physics major study. The main difference from the second edition is that the third one contains more difficult problems. Moreover, there are solutions to all the problems (not exercises) so that after finishing the problems in my own way I could check whether my method is wrong or not and compare the other methods. Great help for my study!

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | 1107014026 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #125,512 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3 in Magnetism in Physics #19 in Physics (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (251) |
| Dimensions  | 8 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches |
| Edition  | 3rd |
| ISBN-10  | 9781107014022 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1107014022 |
| Item Weight  | 3.5 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 853 pages |
| Publication date  | January 21, 2013 |
| Publisher  | Cambridge University Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the best books on the subject
*by I***N on June 7, 2013*

Purcell takes an unconventional approach in this book. Most of the electromagnetics is derived from three laws in this book: Coulomb's law, charge invariance, and special theory of relativity. This approach is especially beautiful and fruitful as the reader can make deep connections between electricity and magnetism. Yet, the book is easy to digest as most of the material is explained over experiments with very useful illustrations. The clarity and precise language with which the material is presented almost qualifies the text for bedtime reading. Finally, each chapter ends with practical applications of the topics covered.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It's clean and definitely new
*by O***U on May 18, 2013*

It's clean and definitely new. Moreover, the shipping is faster than usual which is out of my expectation. The book is really helpful for my Physics major study. The main difference from the second edition is that the third one contains more difficult problems. Moreover, there are solutions to all the problems (not exercises) so that after finishing the problems in my own way I could check whether my method is wrong or not and compare the other methods. Great help for my study!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ a classic, improved and updated
*by B***L on March 5, 2013*

This is the best freshman E&M text of all time -- provided that the class consists of students ready to handle the material at this level. Although the necessary tools of vector calculus are introduced from scratch, I doubt that most students would be able to get up to speed unless they had already had vector calculus or were at least taking it concurrently. The best known innovation of this book was the presentation of magnetism as a consequence of relativity. The book assumes you've already learned special relativity. (There is an appendix on SR in the 3rd edition, but realistically that wouldn't be sufficient.) I ordered a copy of the 3rd edition ($76), and compared it side by side with my disintegrating but much-loved copy of the 1965 1st edition. The price is amazingly reasonable compared to the kind of exploitative prices you see these days for textbooks. One thing I'd never noticed before is that the 1st edition has a notice on its copyright page saying that it's available for royalty-free use after 1970. (It was an NSF-sponsored project.) So theoretically it's legal to scan it and put it on the web for free. However, what I find when I look around on the web is people illegally making the 2nd edition available through sleazy file-sharing sites. The most important change is the switch from cgs to SI units. Three cheers. Without this change the book would have stayed in the ghetto forever. The 3rd edition is almost twice the bulk of the 1st. This is mostly because there are far more problems, and many of them have complete solutions in the back of the book. This is a great new feature. There is also an applications section at the end of every chapter. For the most part, though, it's exactly the same text with only a very few minor changes here and there. The line art is mostly the same. The graphic design isn't as nice as in the 1st edition, which often used gray backgrounds on the figures, with a full bleed. In the 3rd edition, the figures often aren't sufficiently clearly divided from the text, and the effect is extremely ugly.

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