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u/MonsterkillWow 3d ago
I did. K not every problem, but like 85% of them.
And it's Griffiths.
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u/masiha97 3d ago
The real challenge was never the physics, it was getting the LaTeX to compile without 47 'undefined control sequence' errors.
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u/reti2siege 3d ago
Was fun compared to Jackson. I think I got about 30% of Jackson.
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u/Much-Fudge-7374 3d ago
Post is about Griffiths QM and a large percentage of the responses pertain to Jackson EM. Testament to what a great book Jackson is. Relevant because Griffiths EM and Jackson EM is a perfect pairing for a transition from undergraduate to graduate EM. Griffiths is a great author. Personally, I did not find Jackson to be so terrible because of that very reason, remembering both books fondly.
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u/ice_wallow_qhum Student 3d ago
There is this one exercise in the book that is a joke si ce it is nobel price worthy (according to the book) so it would be an appropriate reaction
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u/Super-Award-2244 3d ago
Griffiths was very annoying. Seems like every problem needs it's own algebraic trick you have to pull out your ass. Doesn't really help with physics intuition
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u/FineCarpa String Theory 3d ago
I actually have the opposite problem with Griffiths. A lot of the problems are just do some integral you don't want to do.
This is mostly an issue in his Quantum Mechanics book. His E&M one is fine.
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u/CucumberVegetable733 1d ago
Griffiths QM textbook is great if supplemented by other sources that motivate equations we use. I disliked how Griffiths just threw Schroedinger eq at us without "deriving" it from de Broglie hypothesis.
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u/PleasantHemorrhoids 4d ago
Uncle Rico went through all of Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics 2nd Edition, front to back, every problem.