--- product_id: 55285279 title: "Electricity and Magnetism" price: "1841 kr" currency: NOK in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.no/products/55285279-electricity-and-magnetism store_origin: NO region: Norway --- # Covers full EM spectrum 600 problems & exercises Magnetism as relativistic effect Electricity and Magnetism **Price:** 1841 kr **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > ⚡ Unlock the power of electromagnetism with the ultimate classic — don’t get left behind! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Electricity and Magnetism - **How much does it cost?** 1841 kr with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.no](https://www.desertcart.no/products/55285279-electricity-and-magnetism) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Unrivaled Problem Sets:** Nearly 600 end-of-chapter problems, many with solutions, to challenge and sharpen your skills. - • **Rigorous Yet Accessible:** Mathematical concepts introduced alongside physics for clarity without overwhelming complexity. - • **Trusted Classic for 50 Years:** Join a community of learners who have relied on Purcell’s authoritative text for decades. - • **Comprehensive & Updated Content:** Third edition fully updated in SI units with new problems and real-life applications. - • **Master Electromagnetism Intuitively:** Dive deep with hundreds of clear examples and illustrations that build real-world intuition. ## Overview Edward M. Purcell’s Electricity and Magnetism is a definitive textbook offering a modernized, SI-unit based introduction to electromagnetism. Featuring hundreds of new examples, nearly 600 problems, and a unique relativistic approach to magnetism, this third edition balances rigorous physics with accessible math. Ideal for students and professionals seeking deep intuition and comprehensive coverage of electrostatics, circuits, fields, and waves. ## Description For 50 years, Edward M. Purcell's classic textbook has introduced students to the world of electricity and magnetism. The third edition has been brought up to date and is now in SI units. It features hundreds of new examples, problems, and figures, and contains discussions of real-life applications. The textbook covers all the standard introductory topics, such as electrostatics, magnetism, circuits, electromagnetic waves, and electric and magnetic fields in matter. Taking a nontraditional approach, magnetism is derived as a relativistic effect. Mathematical concepts are introduced in parallel with the physics topics at hand, making the motivations clear. Macroscopic phenomena are derived rigorously from the underlying microscopic physics. With worked examples, hundreds of illustrations, and nearly 600 end-of-chapter problems and exercises, this textbook is ideal for electricity and magnetism courses. Solutions to the exercises are available for instructors at www.cambridge.org/Purcell-Morin. Review: The most intuitive introduction to electromagnetism with a huge amount of problems and solutions! - An amazing book that treats the subject matter in an intuitive way, always providing graphic illustrations. It Is a lower-division EM book and that is the only drawback, according to me. It is also very helpful for learning Electromagnetism at a higher level in cases where the reader needs some intuition on the basics and for some visualization of the various electromagnetic phenomena. Moreover, Dr. Morin has took an already great book and made it even better by adding many more problems (with a huge amount of them also having solutions), but even these problems, not matter how difficult they get (and they can get really difficult at some points), they are still not very mathematically sophisticated (not even at the level of Griffiths' on most occasions). This is an excellent treatment of Electromagnetism and it might possibly be the best introduction to Electromagnetism as a level just one step lower than that of Griffiths'. But, as building intuition goes, this even beats Griffiths' textbook, which says a lot! Review: Excellent book - A very good and informative book that takes a well structured approach to the subject matter. A very useful addition to any supplied course material for physics students. ## Features - New Store Stock ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 303,336 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 28 in Electromagnetic Theory 1,235 in Popular Science Physics 13,724 in Scientific, Technical & Medical | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 258 Reviews | ## Images ![Electricity and Magnetism - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61hP7NA6TaL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The most intuitive introduction to electromagnetism with a huge amount of problems and solutions! *by A***S on 22 August 2018* An amazing book that treats the subject matter in an intuitive way, always providing graphic illustrations. It Is a lower-division EM book and that is the only drawback, according to me. It is also very helpful for learning Electromagnetism at a higher level in cases where the reader needs some intuition on the basics and for some visualization of the various electromagnetic phenomena. Moreover, Dr. Morin has took an already great book and made it even better by adding many more problems (with a huge amount of them also having solutions), but even these problems, not matter how difficult they get (and they can get really difficult at some points), they are still not very mathematically sophisticated (not even at the level of Griffiths' on most occasions). This is an excellent treatment of Electromagnetism and it might possibly be the best introduction to Electromagnetism as a level just one step lower than that of Griffiths'. But, as building intuition goes, this even beats Griffiths' textbook, which says a lot! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent book *by C***S on 13 May 2013* A very good and informative book that takes a well structured approach to the subject matter. A very useful addition to any supplied course material for physics students. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best Physics (electromagnetism) Text Book I've Ever Read. *by J***S on 4 August 2015* If like me you have been left wondering actually what explains a magnetic field (Special Relativity) rather that what describes it (Biot and Savart law) then this book is for you. I just wish I had known of its existence when I studied for a degree in Theoretical Physics back in the '80s. The standard way of approaching this subject at least back then was by introducing the Lorentz force and ultimately deriving and applying the Biot and Savart law for magnetic field generation from integrating current elements. This explains nothing of how the magnetic field is generated by the moving charges that constitute the current. The peculiar trajectory followed by a charged particle in the vicinity of an electric current left me wondering what property of space could possibly produce this result - a charge particle moving parallel to a current carrying wire moves towards or away from the wire and a charge particle moving straight at or away from the wire flies of along the direction of the wire! Space seemed to be behaving like a cork screw channeling the particle in a most peculiar way. The Lorentz force essentially defines the magnetic field that must exist for this behavior to be predicted but does nothing to explain how the moving charge brings the field about. In comes Purcell. Special relativity provides the necessary skewing of space (length contraction) that results in the charge density of the positive and negative charges that constitute the current becoming unequal in the particles rest frame as they are travelling in opposite directions and have different relative velocities to the particle. The wire appears charged in the particles frame! The particle experiences nothing but an electric force that is not apparent in the lab framel! In the lab frame its necessary to invent the magnetic field to describe the observed behavior as the wire remains neutral. Simples! If I had had this insight back in the day I would have paid more attention to the rest of the course rather than mulling over this sort of question for the next 20 years! From this approach Purcell derives Maxwell's equations and describes electric and magnetic phenomena in matter. On the way, many confusions arriving from the classical approach are resolved via similar deep insights. A beautifully written book. Thank God for Purcell. 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