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title: Electromagnetics
description: This subject covers the behavior of electric and magnetic fields and their interactions with materials. Learners will understand Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic wave propagation, transmission lines, and the principles behind antennas and waveguides.
category: engineering
subcategory: electrical-and-computer-engineering
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/electromagnetics
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# Electromagnetics

This subject covers the behavior of electric and magnetic fields and their interactions with materials. Learners will understand Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic wave propagation, transmission lines, and the principles behind antennas and waveguides.

## Available Resources

4 Books • 1 Courses

## Courses

### 1. Continuum Electromechanics (MIT RES.6-001)

**Author:** James R. Melcher

The complete 1981 textbook on electromechanical energy conversion: electromagnetic forces, charge relaxation, magnetic diffusion, fluid mechanics, and electrohydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic flows, with problem sets and solutions. Prepares readers to model coupled field-fluid systems such as transducers, induction machines and liquid-metal pumps.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-6-001-continuum-electromechanics-spring-2009/

**Tags:** electromechanics, magnetohydrodynamics, electrohydrodynamics, electromagnetic-forces, continuum-mechanics

## Books

### 1. Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design (4th Edition)

**Author:** Constantine A. Balanis

The reference work on antenna analysis and design. Covers radiation integrals and fundamental parameters, dipoles and loops, linear and planar arrays, broadband and aperture antennas, horns, microstrip patches, reflectors, and antenna measurement techniques, with full design equations.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118642066?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** antennas, antenna-design, electromagnetics, antenna-arrays, rf-engineering

### 2. Microwave Engineering (4th Edition)

**Author:** David M. Pozar

Standard graduate textbook on RF and microwave circuit engineering covering transmission lines, waveguides, S-parameter network analysis, impedance matching, resonators, couplers, filters, ferrite devices and noise. Readers can analyse microwave networks and design amplifiers, oscillators and mixers.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0470631554?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** microwave-engineering, rf-engineering, transmission-lines, s-parameters, impedance-matching

### 3. Introduction to Electrodynamics (5th Edition)

**Author:** David J. Griffiths

The standard junior-level electrodynamics text, now published by Cambridge. Builds Maxwell's equations from electrostatics and magnetostatics, then treats conservation laws, wave propagation in media, potentials and fields, radiation, and relativistic electrodynamics, with computational problems in Mathematica. Nothing else explains why the equations take the form they do with this clarity.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1009397753?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** electrodynamics, maxwells-equations, electromagnetism, physics, electromagnetic-waves

### 4. Electromagnetics, Volume 1

**Author:** Steven W. Ellingson

Peer-reviewed open textbook for a first university course in engineering electromagnetics, using a transmission-lines-first approach. Covers vector analysis, electrostatics, steady current, magnetostatics, time-varying fields and plane waves; Volume 2 continues into waveguides, antennas and radiation.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0997920181?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** electromagnetics, transmission-lines, electrostatics, magnetostatics, open-textbook

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