About this book

Berkeley Physics Course vol. 2: electromagnetism derived from relativity.

The author

Edward M. Purcell

1912–1997 · American physicist

Nobel laureate
National Medal of Science
Professor at Harvard
Professor at MIT

Profession: Physicist, Professor
Worked at: Harvard, MIT
Studied at: Harvard, Purdue University
Studied under: Henry DeWolf Smyth, Kenneth Bainbridge
Prizes: Nobel Prize in Physics (1952), National Medal of Science (1979), Oersted Medal (1967), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1989), American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1953), Karl G. Jansky Lectureship (1976), Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics (1984), Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize (1988)

Shared a Nobel for nuclear magnetic resonance, the basis of MRI.

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Reading order

Prerequisite: Differential and Integral Calculus (Piskunov)

Pairs with: Problems in General Physics (Irodov) · The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume II (Feynman)

Then read: Classical Electrodynamics (Jackson)

In print

Yes · Cambridge University Press, 3rd edition

Which edition

The 3rd edition (2013, with David Morin) switches to SI units and adds many problems. The 1st (1965) and 2nd (1985) editions use Gaussian units, which most courses no longer do.

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Editions

4 editions

First published 1965

Earliest edition listed: 2011 · Cambridge University Press

2011 · Cambridge University Press · ISBN 9781283315043
2011 · Cambridge University Press · ISBN 9781139115971
2011 · Cambridge University Press · ISBN 9781139120333
2012 · Cambridge University Press · ISBN 9781139005043

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Subjects

Physics