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Title: Not all it's cracked up to be
Review: Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics (5th Edition)The author of this book currently teaches at in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at my University (Univeristy of Michigan -- Ann Arbor), which is surely one reason why the book is used in the electromagnetics courses (200-400 level undergraduate) here. Like other reviewers have mentioned, the book does contain a lot of useful formulas, however it only derives a few of them. Furthermore, from reading this book, I did not gain any intuitive understanding of most of the fundamental concepts of electromagnetics (which is probably my single largest criticism of the book). Instead, I got through my courses by searching for the right formulas for a given problem, which I hate doing. I've heard other students at my school rave about this book, but I wouldn't purchase it again.
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