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*{{cite book |title=Classical electrodynamics |author=John David Jackson |publisher=Wiley |edition=3rd ed |isbn=047130932X |year=1998 |url=http://www.amazon.com/Classical-Electrodynamics-Third-David-Jackson/dp/047130932X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1292545370&sr=1-1#reader_047130932X}} Authoritative graduate level textbook.
*{{cite book |title=Classical electrodynamics |author=John David Jackson |publisher=Wiley |edition=3rd ed |isbn=047130932X |year=1998 |url=http://www.amazon.com/Classical-Electrodynamics-Third-David-Jackson/dp/047130932X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1292545370&sr=1-1#reader_047130932X}} Authoritative graduate level textbook.
*{{cite book |title=Electrodynamics |author=Fulvio Melia |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=0226519589 |year=2001 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=vgEzrD5DryAC&printsec=frontcover}} A first-year undergraduate level text designed, according to the author, as an introduction to Jackson (listed above).
*{{cite book |title=Electrodynamics |author=Fulvio Melia |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=0226519589 |year=2001 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=vgEzrD5DryAC&printsec=frontcover}} A first-year undergraduate level text designed, according to the author, as an introduction to Jackson (listed above).
*{{cite book |title=Principles of electrodynamics |author=Melvin Schwartz |isbn=0486654931 |publisher=Dover |edition=Reprint of McGraw Hill 1972 ed |year=1987 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=dCQiejCy1kcC&printsec=frontcover }} A lucid presentation of the Maxwell equations, stressing their derivation from electrostatics and Lorentz invariance.
*{{cite book |title=Classical electricity and magnetism |author=WKH Panofsky and M Phillips |isbn=0486439240 |year=2004 |edition=Reprint of Addison-Wesley 1962 ed |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=FVZCPQAACAAJ |publisher=Dover}} A greatly respected older text, building the Maxwell equations from the empirical observations of Coulomb, Ampère and Faraday, "rather than on mathematics and strict internal logic". The authors say the subject has "gained in usefulness as it has lost in immediacy".
*{{cite book |title=Principles of electrodynamics |author=Melvin Schwartz |isbn=0486654931 |publisher=Dover |edition=Reprint of McGraw Hill 1972 ed |year=1987 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=dCQiejCy1kcC&printsec=frontcover }} A lucid presentation of the Maxwell equations, from exactly the opposite approach to that of Panofsky and Phillips, stressing their derivation from electrostatics and Lorentz invariance.

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