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Back in the IEE Library in London this month, I went through the books on electromagnetism again. The situation is scandalous. Ivor Catt nov02 |
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In the IEE Library, Savoy
Place, London Shelf no. 537.8 ELL Robert S Elliott, Electromagnetics, History, Theory, and Applications
pub. IEEE Press1993 630pp R S Elliott, Hughes Chair
Professor of Electromagnetics, University of California, Los Angeles .... Chapter 2 The Special Theory of
Relativity .... Author Index Contains Einstein,
Heisenberg and Minkowski No Heaviside Subject Index No TEM Wave No Transverse Electromagnetic
Wave @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ David A de Wolf, Essentials of Electromagnetics for Engineering,
pub. CUP 2001 In the Index, TEM mode
only appears under “Transmission lines”, pp410-415 Totally unintelligible,
except to one who knows it all already, who can see what the author is
playing at. Heaviside does not appear
in the book. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Robert E Collin, Field Theory of Guided Waves, Second
Edition, pub. IEEE Press, 1991
851pp Heaviside does not appear
in the book. No mention of displacement
current TEM Wave definition, p173 Hopeless tangle of
mathematics. No clear statement of what a TEM wave is. No diagram. Scandalous. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Jin Au Kong, Electromagnetic Wave Theory, pub. Wiley
1986 Jin Au Kong, Professor of
Electrical Engineering, MIT No displacement current No Heaviside No TEM Wave Scandalous @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ P Hammond, Electromagnetism for Engineers, pub OUP
1964/1997 Hammond, Dept. Of
Electrical Engineering, Univ. Of Southampton No displacement current No TEM Wave @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ John D Kraus, Electromagnetics, pub. McGraw-Hill
1953/92 p477 TEM wave not clearly
stated. Not clear that E and H are in phase. x |
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No way can a student, or even a lecturer, get his bearings
from these books. Ivor Catt nov02 |