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bigmike94
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Hi I am coming up to the end of first year electromagnetism using the book University Physics. I will be honest there’s a lot of information crammed into a few hundred pages and it was my first ever exposure to EM. I never did it in school.
I feel like its give me a good overview but i don't feel ready for something like Griffiths yet, I am wondering if a book like Edward M. Purcell & David J. Morin Electricity and Magnetism would be a good bridging book before Griffiths as I have heard it’s level is in between that of University Physics and Griffiths?
Thanks in advance
Edit: I think also with me because I struggle with attention problems I have kind of rushed through the EM sections, the book is huge the pages are huge and the writing is tiny and there’s a lot going on with each page. It can get a bit overwhelming. I plan on reading many many textbooks so I am not too worried about gaps I have, I’m just so done with this mammoth of a book
Edit 2: I should mention that I start a first year physics course next month with my actual uni, that’s one of the reasons I have had to rush through this book, I was trying to get ahead of the game, so anything I haven’t fully grasped I should pick up during this course anyway. (My uni publishes its own textbooks that are a lot more readable than most textbooks as they’re written for distance learning)
I feel like its give me a good overview but i don't feel ready for something like Griffiths yet, I am wondering if a book like Edward M. Purcell & David J. Morin Electricity and Magnetism would be a good bridging book before Griffiths as I have heard it’s level is in between that of University Physics and Griffiths?
Thanks in advance
Edit: I think also with me because I struggle with attention problems I have kind of rushed through the EM sections, the book is huge the pages are huge and the writing is tiny and there’s a lot going on with each page. It can get a bit overwhelming. I plan on reading many many textbooks so I am not too worried about gaps I have, I’m just so done with this mammoth of a book
Edit 2: I should mention that I start a first year physics course next month with my actual uni, that’s one of the reasons I have had to rush through this book, I was trying to get ahead of the game, so anything I haven’t fully grasped I should pick up during this course anyway. (My uni publishes its own textbooks that are a lot more readable than most textbooks as they’re written for distance learning)
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