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Title: Great substitute for University Physics
Review: I purchased this book as a substitute for the University Physics series book on Electromagnetism on a hunch that there might be older texts out there that are better and cheaper than their ever-updated glossy counterparts.I purchased this along with Purcell and the Feynman lectures on E&M.; I found myself referring to this book much more than Purcell and I looked at Feynman hardly at all. The other two were too mathematically advanced for me at the time as I was concurrently taking Calc II.The material tends to be covered first in some R dimension using a lot of symmetry to get the main point across and then the second half of a chapter will go into the details in R^3.Compared to its glossy alternative this book was more serious. Yet, the explanations are not beyond the first year undergraduate. It's cheaper to boot.I enjoyed this book very much and did very well in class relying almost entirely on this book and not opening the assigned text even once.
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