Product Description: An introduction to physics for first-year physics students, designed to deliver information clearly and concisely. The authors guide the student through the foundations of university physics in this authoritative introduction. The two-colour text design and over 500 diagrams bring out the key points, and the text makes full advantage of features such as worked examples, graded problems, and an appendix on necessary mathematics in order to better explain the subject and meet the needs of the modern student...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book is based on lectures on classical electromagnetism given at Manchester University. The level of difficulty is suitable for honours physics students at a British University or physics major at an American University. A-level or high school physics and calculus are assumed, and the reader is expected to have some elementary knowledge of vectors. Unitl one is used to them, vectors are difficult, and the authors have accordingly treated them rather cautiously to begin with. Brief descriptions of the properties of the differential vector operators are given at their first appearance. These descriptions are not intended to be a substitute for a proper mathematical text, but to remind the reader what div, grad and curl are all about, and to set them in the context of electromagnetism. The distinction between macroscopic and microscopic electric and magnetic fields is fully discussed at an early stage in the book. (view table of contents)