Introduction to Electrodynamics
Reviews (183)
Not the actual book.
I thought I liked the cheap price. There is a reason it’s cheap. It’s not a full print.
I like to see a lot of math and Griffiths doesn't ...
Not a fan of this Intro book. I like to see a lot of math and Griffiths doesn't deliver on that note for me.
Five Stars
Must read it if your are at the university
Griffiths clearly explains the material thoroughly and provides simple to ...
Griffiths clearly explains the material thoroughly and provides simple to moderate level explains that help you gain intuition to solve the harder practice problems. Definitely helped sharpen my understanding of EM and do well in my upper div EM class.
The book is terribly printed on cheap paper
This book is an illegal copy. There is no printing information, including citation page, anywhere on the book, including outside on the cover. The book itself is not missing any pages, it simply is not printed with required by law portions. The book is terribly printed on cheap paper, and cheaply bound to a cheap cover. The color of the cover is not quite the right color either. When compared to an authentic book side by side, significant differences were found. This iteration was found to have none of the standard equations, definitions, and constants printed in the inside of both covers. The index in the beginning lists names of chapters only, not sections or their numbers. The problems in the book are not numbered the same way, so when assigned problems for a homework, you have to count from the beginning of the chapter to make sure you work the right one. The first day I got the book, the front cover partially separated. There are frequent misspellings in the book, including on the back cover. Interestingly, one side of a red zipper is glued to the spines at the top and bottom, which at a distance, I assume, were intended to look like stitching on the caps of the spine.
Terrible Binding
First and foremost, this review is *not* about the content of the book, it's *only* about the binding. So please do *not* take the one star rating for the content. This book has probably the worst binding of any book I've ever owned. It just fell apart literally, and it's only in my hands for about 3 weeks. Considering that I always take good care of my books, this is really terrible, especially for the $130+ price. And if you read other reviews, you'd find that this is not a dealer specific thing. The binding of this book is terrible no matter which seller you buy from. I urge Pearson to do more QA on this book.
Five Stars
Fast shipping and great quality
Poor construction; minute changes from previous edition
The build quality of this edition of the book leaves much to be desired. A majority of the pages are separating from the spine after only a couple of weeks use. It should also be noted that the differences between this and the third edition of this text are minutely different with entire sections simply being copied and pasted into this new edition from the previous. Problem statements have been shuffled around with few additions to the text. The content within the text itself is quite good. Subject matter is very informative and the method for which the material is presented is intuitive. However, all of this can be found in the cheaper and better-quality third edition. I would not recommend this product.
Two Stars
the pages were torn apart
WOW!!
It arrived whole
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