Dear Group:
I applaud the suggestion to read my mentor's book on Antennas (any
edition) to gain an understanding. The clarity of his writing is the best
that I have found. However, recently a collaborator of Professor Kraus has
written a small, inexpensive book just explaining Maxwell's compilation of
equations.

Consider the purchase and study of: "A Student's Guide to Maxwell's
Equations" by Daniel Fleisch. ISBN is 978-0-521-70147-1 The publisher is
Cambridge University Press. Amazon has the book for about $23.

73, Mac N8TT
--
J. McLaughlin; Michigan, USA
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I managed to clip "stuff" and attributions.



* Yes: the late John D Kraus. He was a practical engineer as well as a
theoretician and his native language was English. He managed to put into
practice a lot of the theory that others had written about and he recorded
his work lucidly. I've already named two of Kraus's books - can you cite
something written by any of your favorites that provides clear
explanations that you understand? Answers.com doesn't explain anything
technical.





* It's even more interesting to read text books by writers such as Kraus
who have known provenance. Maxwell's equations are covered very well in
his books 'Antennas' and 'Electromagnetics' - I suggest you read them.
It appears a lot of what is published on the WWW is written by people
who haven't taken the time to learn the basic simple stuff; school
pupils and college students perhaps. You have to be very careful what
you accept as true when the internet is involved.

"J. Mc Laughlin" wrote in message
.. .
Dear Group:
I applaud the suggestion to read my mentor's book on Antennas (any
edition) to gain an understanding. The clarity of his writing is the best
that I have found. However, recently a collaborator of Professor Kraus
has written a small, inexpensive book just explaining Maxwell's
compilation of equations.

Consider the purchase and study of: "A Student's Guide to Maxwell's
Equations" by Daniel Fleisch. ISBN is 978-0-521-70147-1 The publisher
is Cambridge University Press. Amazon has the book for about $23.

73, Mac N8TT
--
J. McLaughlin; Michigan, USA
Home:

I managed to clip "stuff" and attributions.

.... which I've further clipped (Chris).


* Thank you Mac. A voice of sense in the wilderness!

I'm aware that Fleisch collaborated with Kraus to compile the third edition
of 'Antennas: for all applications' classified as ISBN 13: 978-0-07-112240-5
and ISBN 10: 0-07-112240-0. In my view this is one of the clearest editions
of 'Antennas' so his guide to Maxwell's equations will certainly be worth
investigating.

I found another, rather unexpected, source of lucid practical application of
some of Maxwell's equations in a book that may be the 'bible' for those
involved professionally in VHF/UHF aeronautical communications: 'Ultra High
Frequency Propagation' by Reed, H.R. and Russell, C.M., Boston Technical
Publishers, of which I have the second edition from1966. Chapter 4 therein.
I bought my copy from one of the on-line second-hand book stores for
something like 8 UKP. I recommend it to all who read this news group - it
really is lucid on lots of matters of antennas and propagation, and not just
at UHF.

Chris