Electromagnetics

This book was designed for the undergrad and beginning graduate/ambitious senior undergrad (for the later chapters that deal with PDE's). It's very well-written and even explains mathematical concepts like divergence and curl in a very clear manner, providing good examples to illustrate what can be tough to understand material. It's very detailed and mathematically rigorous. I wish that more EM texts/physics books were written this way, because it includes real-world examples for many of the concepts. I like how the chapters are sequentially arranged and also titled to make the concepts clearer. For example, Faraday's law is in the chapter entitled "Time-changing Electric and Magnetic Fields". This gives the student a better perspective on crucial concepts, rather than only a so-called "conditional statement" within the chapter as most other books are written.I recommend this to the student seeking a thorough book where the concepts are more completely derived, not just "hand-waved" seemingly out of thin air as most popular undergraduate physics and EM books seem to do these days. That can be frustrating and impede a student's learning, and it seems that many modern textbook authors "dumb-down" their texts in a disrespectful manner to the average student's intellect. This isn't how Kraus wrote this book, so if you read it and do the problems be prepared to be challenged!...in a good way.