Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics 6th Edition

This is not only one of the best Emag text books I have used but one of the best text books, period. As an electrical engineering major, seeing this material for the first time, this textbook was perfect. Just enough theory without drowning you with endless derivations and useless background information. "Just the facts" The explanations were easy to follow and the example problems very helpful.I have noticed several negative reviews of this book. Whether or not you like this book basically comes down to what type of student you are. If you are an EE who is taking an introductory course and doesn't need endless, super in depth (i.e. confusing) explanations of every minutia of the subject, then this book is perfect. If you are a physics or math major who enjoys endlessly pondering the finer mathematical points of electromagnetism for 27 hours a day, then there are probably better textbooks out there. If you are doing your PhD dissertation in an abstract, theoretical, highly focused area of Emag, again, there are more in depth textbooks for you to use.

Covers topics with great graphics and good examples.

The book is very detailed and in depth with a lot of graphs, pictures, diagrams, and equations. But they also try to make it simple for you by giving you the equations you really need to know at the end of each chapter before the Problems section of each chapter.Also, the "Technology Briefs" are interesting and making the math more real to the layman.

I am fortunate enough to have taken classes with Dr. Ulbay. He is without a doubt the finest professor anywhere. While I didn't get to take the course for this book with him, I found having his book very helpful. It does a great job explaining concepts and providing examples. Also the applets which are available online now that go with the book are fantastic and really help illustrate the concepts.

I got this book for a semester, and as it turned out the professor wanted to use a different one, and I think that was a good choice, I think the other explained things more clearly in English before jumping into equations. I would sometimes check back to see what this book had to say, and some things helped, but for the most part this book wasn't as helpful.

I bought this book as a reference book so that I could refresh my memory on wave electromagnetics. It is a good book for that.It is very well laid out and easy to find the section that you need.

I got the book yesterday and wrote a response to you. The boor was damaged, it begins on page 51, and the disket is missing. I asked you to rush me another copy.Please read my correspondance and respond.Thank youDr. Abner EphrathHaifa, Israel

I've had this book for an undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering course in waves and transmission lines. In general, I would say that the book is a mess - it doesn't explain things coherently, jumps between unrelated subjects within the chapter, and fails to link equations in meaningful ways. Our homework problems for the class were assigned directly out of the book, and the students quickly began to describe them as "scavenger hunts" - when you found the equations you needed from the chapter text, the problems were quite easy, but you'd spend more than half the time looking for them and trying to deduce from the text whether they were contextually the right ones to use. Many students would give up on using the text at all and would skip straight to online solution manuals, not to copy answers but simply to find comprehensive lists of the correct equations.This problem is exacerbated by a near total lack of useful examples, which is a must have for engineering classes. Proper example problems that use the equations and concepts of a chapter are the cornerstone of teaching difficult mathematics and design techniques, but such practical uses are few and far between in Ulaby's text, and tend to be difficult to follow if not entirely incomprehensible. I found the chapter on basic electrostatics to be especially shocking - most physics texts cover the same material in half the space, and include extensive examples of the equations in use, but this text takes almost 30 pages of redundant equations and tangential explanations with almost no useful examples on potential or derivational technique.In general, if you have a choice, I'd say avoid this text. If not, be prepared to make the most out of online resources, and keep another physics textbook on hand for reference. All the essentials are there, but some major revisions will have to be done to make future editions accessible and useful to students of engineering and the applied sciences.