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Title: Where's the Physics?
Review: While physics is heavily bounded to mathematics, it is not an excuse to set aside all intuition, reason, and common sense. Sometimes, a moment of thought can go along way in solving a problem rather than grinding out the long math. Griffith seems to have no respect for the use of reason. All his solutions, examples, and explanations are a result of calculating some integral and reading off the result. No time is spent in its interpretation or whether this is a reasonable answer. Jackson goes much further in this respect.An an introduction to electricity and magnetism I recommend Purcell. His style is based on thinking through the physics and then applying the math. Even then, he rederives certain mathematical ideas from a physics perspective giving an even greater understanding of the subject.Unfortunately, Griffith is not even a completely mathematically rigorous text. So, we have very little physics, a slop of math and no real discussion. You can see the consequences.
