Principles of Electromagnetic Waves and Materials, 2nd Edition

Preface

The second edition retains the flow and the flavor of the first edition, which was stated in the preface to the first edition. Item 1 describes this flavor in a few words.

1. The millennium generation of students, immersed in computer culture, responds to teaching techniques that make heavy use of computers. They are very comfortable in writing the code to implement an algorithm. In this connection, I remember a graduate student doing research with me mentioning that his struggle is always in understanding the concept. Thus, my approach in teaching is to definitely include the simplest possible model that brings out the concept to the satisfaction of the student and then show how one can improve on the accuracy of the prediction of ...