Can You Recommend A Book?

[hazelm]

There is a class of science writers that writes for the ordinary scientifically semi-literate.  Totally ignorant of much of science?  We read their books and we learn a bit.  Ph.D.'s and beyond do not read them unless they have a particular need to do so.  But, maybe they know about the writers and can recommend someone. 

 

What I am looking for is a good writer/book that will bring together a picture for me.  I understand many terms by definition but they just will not come together so I see the whole picture.  What are the terms saying when put together?  Actually, I think this divides into two pictures but maybe not.  The first was about how electricity works in the brain but it has grown to more to how it works elsewhere in space.  Who covers these topics in readable, intelligible fashion?  Examples:

 

electrostatic currents

electrical events

electrostatic currents

magnetic fields

electromagnetic waves

electric charges

magnetism

magnetics (which seems to sometimes by different from plain magnets.

 

 

There is more but a storm is coming in fast.  I must stop.  Understand that I'm not looking for definitions.  I am doing fairly well there, so long as I don't try to connect the dots.  All I want is an easy-to-read author to take me further.

 

Thank you.  Hazel

 

 

 

 

[sanctus]

Maybe try the book from DJ Griffiths https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/145292.Introduction_to_Electrodynamics
It is really cool and gives intuition leading to the equations.

The one you for sure should not read is from JD Jackson, there even exercises in there which are not solved and would give you a nobel price (that is what I heard never checked if true). But what I know to be true, since I did read parts of it is that there are lines along "it can simply be proven that" and simply means it takes less than a day if you understood everything.


I always loved that the 2 EM-bibles at my university where from guys with initials DJ and the permutation of it ;)

[hazelm]

Thank you.  I shall check it out when the world wakes up.  The equations may stop me.  But, I'll try.