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thoth · 2016-02-09 · Original thread
When I was an undergrad and graduate EE student, the "go to" book to help with electromagnetics was Div, Grad, Curl, and all that (http://www.amazon.com/Div-Grad-Curl-All-That/dp/0393925161). Back in my era it was the 1st edition of the book, not the 4th.

I see another book with good recommendations, A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations (http://www.amazon.com/Students-Guide-Maxwells-Equations/dp/0...) but I have not read that one.

Div, Grad, Curl helped a bit, but what really made it click for me was an excellent professor some other EE math-class-in-disguise that explained those vector calc operations in terms of divergence (source density) and flux (change in time/space).

As far as understanding the linked paper, I can't follow the proof either. Equations 1-4 I've never seen, 5-8 are Maxwell's Equations which are familiar but we wrote them with different notation, 9-18 are again equations I've never seen. The meat of the proof in 19-21 is built on 14 mystery equations and 4 that I recognize.

As a former EE I guess we didn't prove equations as much as take their existence as given and then figured out what that implied for the real world. ;) Other posters aroberge and wraithm have mentioned also needing QM from physics to follow the proof, which must be where the other equations are from!

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