Engineering Electromagnetics

By Kenneth R. Demarest

Book Overview

This book offers a traditional approach on electromagnetics, but has more extensive applications material. KEY TOPICS: The author offers engaging coverage of the following: CRT's, Lightning,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0023285214
• ISBN13: 9780023285219
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 2.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.4" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

best introductory book on microwaves

best for undergraduate student who want to know the basic knowledge about the microwave engineering

Book review

It is a good book for learning Electromagnetism, one of my favorite subjects. It comprises of 14 chapters with the first 12 chapter very well written. However, the author doesn't seem to have paid proper attention in writing chapters 13 (Waveguides) and 14 (Radiation and Antennas), and after reading them, most readers will wonder what waveguides really are and how an antenna works. I say so after following most of first 12 chapters, and due to above mentioned reason, this book is not complete in itself. Hopefully, editions in future will be better and more complete in comparison to the current edition.

There is no better undergrad EM book than this

As a PhD student in electromagnetics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, I have seen quite a few books on the subject. For an undergraduate text, this has been by far the best. There are rigorous math proofs as one person commented, but they are accompanied by very clear and understandable explanations. What makes this book unique is that it is a much needed middle-ground between typical engineering and physics texts, which focus too narrowly on applications and theory, respectively. This book combines both theory and applications seamlessly, with a large number of practical examples. There is also an entire chapter devoted to vector calculus which is very helpful.Although the text does not cover many of the more advanced topics (it is an undergraduate text after all), I find myself referring to it often when searching for very descriptive explanations of the fundamental topics of electromagnetics. Nearly all of the other books I have seen are written in such a way that you have to be more experienced in the field to understand the unnecessarily complex terminology used. This text is written so clearly I was able to get my own mom to understand some of the concepts (and that's saying something!)I will admit I might have a possible bias towards this book, as I was fortunate to take the class from the author, Dr. Kenneth Demarest, while an undergraduate at the University of Kansas. His love of the subject is very striking, which is evident in his classes as well as the text. I will say, however, that if you do take his class, whatever you do don't come in late. Trust me...

Excellent, outstanding, clear book

Dr. Demarest successfully treated the electromagnetic in engieering perspective. The book is slightly different from most of the undergraduate engineering electromagnetic. Demarest's book treated the electrostatic and magnetostatic in material with clarity. The treatment of the transmission lines is also very detailed and excellent. Although the book is good in general, there are several mistakes in printing. Errors are scattered through out the book. But the book is certainly an excellent book for undergraduate electromagnetic in Electrical engineering of any university.