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Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields
A Classic Reissue in the IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Wave Theory
Donald G. Dudley, Series Editor
“When I begin a new research project, I clear my desk and put away all texts and reference books. Invariably, Harrington’s book is the first book to find its way back to my desk. My copy is so worn that it is falling apart.”–Dr. Kendall F. Casey, SRI
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Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields
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#1 by Master of Puppets on June 28, 2010 - 9:11 pm
This is a classic graduate textbook for Advanced Electromagnetics courses. One of the main things that I liked the most about this book is Dr. Harrington’s strict adherence to one of Dr. Einstein’s principles: “make things simple, but no simpler” – which works perfect for a graduate-level textbook. I am not implying that this book is difficult to follow than other commonly used graduate texts (”Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics” by Balanis comes to mind). In fact, this book is much easier to read and follow than books that tend to derive everything for you (which simply ends up cluttering your thought process with too much detail instead of focussing on the main concept in question). Read the chapter on “Cylindrical Waves” and compare it with its equivalent in Balanis’s book, and you will understand my point. This book is quintessential for graduate students contemplating a career in Computational Electromagnetics.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on June 28, 2010 - 9:32 pm
Harrington has written a concise yet complete graduate-level electromagnetic theory book. Because the book contains a solid review of time-harmonic fields and keeps discussions at a very intuitive level, it is a classic!
Rating: 4 / 5
#3 by Marc Hopkins on June 28, 2010 - 10:10 pm
This is a very usefull and accurate reference. This is a very technical book that will give you the answers to wave form propagations and dynamics of waveforms without focusing on specific antenna types. Like any engineering type book it can be dry as is the nature of most technical books. Highly recommended for the graduate level and above.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by Anonymous on June 29, 2010 - 12:29 am
I was introduced to this classic while I was a master’s (M.Tech) student at IIT Kharagpur, India in 1981.
Prof. Harrington’s very pithy approach provoked me to think deeply on the subject. It is because of this book that my interest in the subject has been alive and vibrant today.
I met Prof. Harrington for the 1st time at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Conference at Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1993. Prof. Harrington comforted me by saying that he has no plans to do any alterantions to this classic text in the near future.
This book is not for the indolent and hence is not for causal reading like many lengthy and `verbose’ textbooks on this subject. However, if I have ever an opportunity for organizing a 1st-year graduate course on EM theory, I shall use Harrington. Why wouldn’t you ?
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Masashi Hotta on June 29, 2010 - 1:17 am
This book is fundermental and important reference book for starting the new project. I read them with my Master-Course students.
Superviser in my my academic time also recommended me this book.
Rating: 5 / 5