No-Nonsense Electrodynamics: A Student Friendly Introduction

The book goes over the core concepts of electrodynamics, and by that, fulfills its function. However, the so-called "handdrawn" pictures are more of a gimmick that makes it a bit harder to understand what is happening.

An extremely self-study friendly introduction to the subject without loss of advanced concepts. It covers not just Maxwell's equations, but also aspects of important related ideas eg, Einstein's special relativity, differential geometry, and guage theory, (but not, of course, QED quantum electrodynamics). The hundreds of simple hand drawings are exceptionally helpful to the great text.

The books of Jakub Schwichtenberg are truly the best beginner friendly book for physics ever, and they will have a place in my heart for the rest of life. But the book that I especially liked was the Electrodynamics book So positives about the book are the explanation of the topic, which very few authors can do well when they write about electrodynamics. It was a great introduction to Vector Calculus, there are other book recommendations in the book, if you wanted to know something in a more detail. But the explanation of the Maxwell equations, solutions and step by step approach, was something fantastic. Now the negatives of the book, are I think no exercises in the whole book, which I can get that because it wants to be "people" friendly, but especially when self learner wants to learn the topic, and especially electrodynamics, I believe there could be few exercises put in the book. Conclusion would be that if you are a physics student who wants to learn physics and is really enthusiastic about it, books of Mr. Schwichtenberg are "must have", but there are no exercises in the book, so you could just look at his recommendation of books, where are exercises.

This is a very good book if you want to understand what electrodynamics is. As the other books of this serie the aim is really to make it understandible for all. The usual 3 parts: basics, concrete example déveloped in details (as application of basics) and more advance explanations are terribly efficient and very rare, so do not hesitate!

Gostei muito da maneira como os temas são apresentados (top - down). A profundidade do tratamento matemático e a precisão na apresentação dos conceitos físicos são excelentes.