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Title: Good book
Review: I don't give the book five stars because it is the only E&M book I am currently familiar with and maybe there is a better book out there. As far as conceptual understanding, the book deserves 10 stars. While it is true that the "proofs by analogy" (as well as many of the problems) do not help the student learn difficult mathmatical techniques that Jackson uses, they give a student a much better physical understanding of the subject matter, better then a rigerous mathmatical proof would. If a student is already familair with boundry value problems and wants something to help him understand E&M conceptually, this book is number 1. I'm not saying the problems are easy, they just don't utilize some the the special functions and techniques required to solve certain types of difficult E&M problems.
