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Cambridge pitches Griffiths at junior and senior undergraduates in physics and electrical engineering. When it stops making sense, we think Jakob Schwichtenberg's No-Nonsense Electrodynamics is the best book to put next to it, with Purcell and Morin as the second option. The ranking is built from the Cambridge University Press and No-Nonsense Books pages.

  • No-Nonsense Electrodynamics: fields, field tensor and potential tied together; Maxwell's equations and the Lorentz force law derived; gauge theory and relativity chapters; $34 for either format
  • Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics: 5th edition, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 650 pages, junior and senior undergraduates
  • Purcell and Morin, Electricity and Magnetism: 3rd edition, Cambridge, 2013, SI units, $88.00 hardback, magnetism from relativity
  • Keep Griffiths if: its derivations already make sense and your course grades its problems

The written comparison with the full table: Griffiths Electrodynamics vs No-Nonsense Electrodynamics

Buy the eBook or paperback: No-Nonsense Electrodynamics book page

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