Introduction to Electrodynamics: Pearson New International Edition: 4TH EDITION Paperback – International Edition, 30 July 2013

Some parts of the book is difficult to follow but others are explained very well! Helps when you need to do a problem that you can always have a textbook to rely on!

The books give a very rigorous mathematic interpretation of physics concepts. I do not like the notation used in the book. Very good book.

Really good text book, quick delivery. Thank you

I don't think I've ever left an Amazon review before, but I had to for this.The content of the book is excellent, as others have said before. This is easily one of the best textbooks on EM I've ever read.However, this edition is absolutely awful. Not to mention the errors in chapter numbering and indexing that people have discussed already, the book itself is just really awkward to read.For some reason, the publisher decided to print the book on pages that are way too big, meaning the text only fills something like 40% of the available area (seriously, half a given page is just blank white space...). And the paper itself is flimsy, making the whole book cumbersome and floppy.It's a shame I couldn't find another version of this book before my exams, because this crap certainly wasn't worth 40-odd quid...

There have already been a few reviews that have been pretty comprehensive so I will just say this: I had to do an electromagnetism module this year as part of my degree and I hated it, now that I have this book I find it one of the most compelling areas of physics. His marriage of insight and occasional humour helps to make working through it not a chore but an enjoyable activity.

The content itself is fine, but this edition is a mess. The quality of the paper is really low, and the text occupies only the central part of the page, leaving a wide blank "margin" specially at the bottom. There are footnotes at the beginning of every chapter that suggests that what you are going to read is just an extract from the actual book, and an appendix seems to be missing.EDITED: Well, after having spent some time with the book, I will say that maybe you should avoid not only this edition, but any other edition of this book.I know a lot of people likes Griffiths' style, but it isn't working for me. He constantly says things like "You may think this... but this is wrong!" Ok... so why don't you just explain to me the right answer and stop guessing what I'm thinking?I also find annoying that some important things are left for you to find out in the problems. I mean... If I would have wanted to find out everything by myself I wouldn't have bought the book, would I? For example, it is ridiculous that something like the electric field inside a charged sphere is perfectly explained in my "fundamental physics" textbook, with graphics and all, and here is it just left unexplained as part of the problems section. And then, if you haven't done that particular problem, you will find the formula somewhere else, where it is important, appearing out of nothing.So I'm quite disappointed by this book. I understand that for other people this kind of approach may be helpful, but certainly it is not for me.

NOICE

The book itself is fine. (What can I say? I'm the author.) However, this version (the one with lightning on the cover) is seriously defective. This is not my fault (nor Amazon's)---it's the publisher's. Most of the text itself seems to be OK, but the index contains nonsense entries, the Table of Contents is screwed up, and there may be missing chapters (or chapters in the wrong order). If this bothers you, I urge you to contact Pearson, and demand a clean copy. It is appalling that they would mangle the book this way, without ever consulting the author.