Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics: Amazon.co.uk: Nannapaneni Narayana Rao: Books

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For one/two-semester, junior/senior-level courses in Electromagnetics, Transmission Lines and Waveguides, and Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, in the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering. First course in introductory electromagnetics required for electrical engineering and computer engineering students.

Successful text with a versatile approach including thorough coverage of statics with an emphasis on the dynamics of engineering electromagnetics. It integrates practical applications, numerical details, and the thorough coverage of principles.

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This is a successful book with a versatile approach including thorough coverage of statics with an emphasis on the dynamics of engineering electromagnetics. It integrates practical applications, numerical details, and the thorough coverage of principles.

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NEW—Two-part coverage: Fundamental Elements, and Applied Elements—Associates the chapters on Applied Elements with major technologies based on Maxwell's equations.
- Serves the needs of twenty-first century electromagnetics.
NEW—Material on Crosstalk on Transmission Lines; Pulse Broadening in Dispersive Medium; and Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method.
NEW—Review problems—Follow homework problems in each chapter.
- Serve as review of material covered in a chapter by integrating concepts introduced in more than one section of the chapter.
Uniform plane waves—Presents topic immediately following Maxwell's equations chapters, which are introduced collectively, in integral form and then in differential form.
Comprehensive coverage of field and line topics—Begins with p-n junction and circuit elements, progresses through transmission-line time-domain analysis, leading to interconnections between logic gates, and culminating in crosstalk on transmission lines.
Coverage of principles of guided waves developed in one chapter—For both electronics and optoelectronics.
- Confines the treatment to one-dimensional wave guides comprising parallel-plate metallic waveguides followed by dielectric slab waveguides.
Devotes a full chapter to pertinent topics of electronics and photonics—Ch. 10 including two-dimensional metallic waveguides and optical fibers; interference and diffraction; and wave propagation in an anisotropic medium.
Focus on numerical methods—Comprising the finite-difference method; method of moments; finite-element method; and finite-difference time-domain method.
Dynamic field approach—Builds basic material upon time varying fields while retaining important topics of static fields.
Sinusoidal steady-state analysis of transmission lines.
- Familiarizes the reader with graphical and computer solutions.
Radiation introduction followed by basic concepts of antennas.
- Demonstrates for the reader the complete field solution to the Hertzian dipole field through the magnetic vector potential.
Solid pedagogy—105 worked examples, 162 drill problems with answers, marginal notes, chapter summaries, and review questions.
Practical application discussions and experiment demonstrations.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

Almost useless... no, wait a second, a perfect paperweight 27 Feb 2002

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This book is utterly brutal to understand. I went to the school where Rao teaches and this book is used (4th edition book at the time). I did not have Rao as a teacher but it wouldn't have helped. Most of the other students hated this book too. Also, other profs that I talked with (or heard things thru the grapevine) did not like the book either. This book is done as a two semester course. First semester [stinks] pretty bad. Not the easiest material in terms of layout and presentation (very poorly done IMO, not very clear). In the 4th edition, there were still many errors in the book (they gave us a sheet of corrections that needed to be made). Homework problems were almost impossible because the solutions that were provided in the back of the book were iffy at best. Talk about a pain (...)!. If you are to use this book in school, you should be well versed in advanced calculus at a minimum. You will need it for the first four chapters or so. Also, you will want to get your hands on the solution manual thru the "underground", if you catch my drift. On your own kind of study, forget it. You would have to be HIGHLY motivated to get the details from this book. Now that I am done ripping it (really I could go one how much I loathe the book), I should also say that I reference the book quite a bit (yeah, I know I am a hypocrite :) I guess after you have been brutalized by taking coursework with this book, it kind of grows on you in a sick way. I guess I like it because I know where everything is at text wise (after having to re-read things so many times). Kind of like being in an old pair of shoes thing. That is why I gave it 2 stars. If you are looking for a theoretical book, don't bother with this one. Pick something else.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

Not an Introductory Level Book 13 Feb 2002

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Horrid for your first course in EM Theory (electromagnetic theory). Most of this book relies heavily on the idea that you have an extensive backround in 3D space calculus, and a good understanding of electrostatic theory prior to taking the class. The book is more oriented twoard an application based course, where you know the general idea of Static and Time varient electromagnetic fields, and have already covered electrostatics. To give you an idea, The first chapter cover's a review of space calculus (gradient and partials..etc.etc) and then the second chapter covers electrostatics, basic E-field and B-field calculations. In Chapter 3, (a mere 123 pages into the text) you begin your understanding of Maxwell's equations in Integral form. Chapter 4 covers the same eqn's in Differntial form (both chapters cover static and time-variant fields). Chapter 5 gets you into plane waves, and power calculations., and chapter 6 begins on page 313 and should also be the beginning of your next semster of study. The second semster (chapt 6-12) improve slightly, but has still required the use of outside sourses to complete homework and prepare for exams. I've never been so frusterated with a textbook. I had to purchase 2 other textbooks, and the REA handbook to Electromagnetics to have a thorough understanding of this subject. As Dr. Rao comments in his Preface, this book is a text which has "deviated fromthe traditional approach with the degree and nature of deviation depending on the author". His degree of deviation requires numerous out-side sources to complete the homework at the end of each chapter, or a really cool TA with plenty of time on his hands. I would not reccomend this text to a student in a intro-level EM theory class.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

Not a very good book 22 Sep 2002

Used it at U of IL for two courses, a basic intro to EM, and a more advanced course in fields transmission lines. For the purposes of an introductory EM class this book is horrible, look elsewhere. Not enough examples and very difficult to read. For the purposes of a more advanced class, it is adequate, but not great.

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