In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the
humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei, physicist and
astronomer (1564-1642) This book is a second edition of "Classical
Electromagnetic Theory" which derived from a set of lecture notes
compiled over a number of years of teaching elect- magnetic theory to
fourth year physics and electrical engineering students. These students
had a previous exposure to electricity and magnetism, and the material
from the ?rst four and a half chapters was presented as a review. I
believe that the book makes a reasonable transition between the many
excellent elementary books such as Gri?th's Introduction to
Electrodynamics and the obviously graduate level books such as Jackson's
Classical Electrodynamics or Landau and Lifshitz' Elect- dynamics of
Continuous Media. If the students have had a previous exposure to
Electromagnetictheory,
allthematerialcanbereasonablycoveredintwosemesters. Neophytes should
probable spend a semester on the ?rst four or ?ve chapters as well as,
depending on their mathematical background, the Appendices B to F. For a
shorter or more elementary course, the material on spherical waves,
waveguides, and waves in anisotropic media may be omitted without loss
of continuity.