Engineering Electromagnetics

A bit pricey for the material, but still worth it. Includes some useful information if you're studying electromagnetics. Not anything much better out there.a

very good book, used very heavily by my class for introduction to Electromagnetics. Builds up on it self very well. Only got through half of it though.

This is a wonderful introductory book for electromagnetics. The examples and pictures are quite clear. In response to other posts, I agree that the book should be viewed as the first volume in a 2-book series by the Inans; the second volume goes into more mathematical analyses of resonating structures etc. Although the material could well describe any electromagnetic system, the author caters to examples from circuits/transmission line fields rather than, e.g. optical-frequency systems.

I am using this book for my electromagnetics course and it has good explanation of some concepts.It does not cover anything about Smith chart or even give an introduction to transmission lines and i think it is important to have these topics in the text.But for this shortcoming the book is well organised and has a large number of problems at the end of the chapter for practice. I recommed this book to all students for their introductory course ,provided they have strong background in calculus

I think this book does a better job of providing a handle on the vector nature of E & M than virtually any other textbook out there. Very often you'll see other authors reduce integrations to scalar equations without showing you the steps involved (dot or cross products), but Inan uses vectors consistently. You will be amazed at how this alone improves your grasp of the material. The rigor and completeness of the coverage are far better than any of the other engineering E & M books, and his willingness to plug in numbers to make some practical calculations is very welcome in comparison with pure physics treatments like Jackson's. The guy above says that waveguides are not covered in detail in this book, and this is true, but the second book in the series (Electromagnetic Waves) covers waveguides and reflection, refraction, transmission, etc. in great detail. The purpose of this book is to provide you with solid fundamentals in transmission lines and the application of Maxwell's equations, and it succeeds admirably.