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Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus, Fourth Edition
Binding: Paperback
Author: H. M. Schey
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Average Rating: 4.5
Total Customer Reviews: 28
Our Price: $30.38
Sales Rank: 11041
Product Description
Since the publication of the First Edition over thirty years ago, Div, Grad, Curl, and All That has been widely renowned for its clear and concise coverage of vector calculus, helping science and engineering students gain a thorough understanding of gradient, curl, and Laplacian operators without required knowledge of advanced mathematics. The Fourth Edition has been carefully revised and now includes updated notations and seven new example exercises.
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Product Review Summary: div grad curl and all Very good exposition of all of the essential vector operations on scalar and vector
fields whch are indespensable in the study of electromagnetism and oher branches of
physics.
Product Review Summary: Div Grad Curl - Schey Quick delivery. Quality product. Essential for anyone interested in electromagnetic phenomena. Very explanatory. Great reference for mathematicians, electronics engineers, and physicists. I am a very happy customer.
Product Review Summary: A must to read If you want to study vector calculus and if you want to understand electrical and magnetic fields, this book is a must. You learn this matter in a very comprensive way with the necessary examples.
Product Review Summary: Great supplement This is a great supplement to a standard text. It is not intended as a stand-alone. It can help make intuitive sense of the many (many) formulae in vector calculus.
Note how short it is. That often means a book where the author has done the hard work of boiling it down, and that is the case here. Don't reject the book because the cost per page is high!
A great follow up is Geometrical Vectors, which does a similar thing for (part of) tensor analysis.Geometrical Vectors (Chicago Lectures in Physics)
Product Review Summary: Take Note: Spherical coordinate naming conventions switch from 3rd to 4th edition. The math world and the physics world are not consistent with one another in their naming conventions for the angles in spherical coordinates (which angle is theta and which is phi). (see the 3rd paragraph on this page [...])
The third edition of this book follows the physics convention, but the fourth edition switches to the math convention. This reduces the helpfulness and ability to use the book as a "quick reference" for a physics class, because one must remember to switch all of the variables any time spherical coordinates are used. This is so annoying that I am probably going to sell my copy of the fourth edition and buy the third edition.
If you are using this book for a reference for a physics class, I would highly recommend purchasing the third edition (or earlier) unless you enjoy being really confused and creating extra, unnecessary work for yourself.
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