Useful Texts and Web References

• J.D Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd ed.
• Bound paper copy of these notes:
  http://www.lulu.com/content/1144184
• Orfanidi's Electromagnetic Waves and Antennas:
  http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/$\sim$orfanidi/ewa/
• H. Wyld, Methods of Mathematical Physics, ISBN 978-0738201252, available from e.g. http://amazon.com. Other mathematical physics texts such as Arfken or Morse and Feshback are equivalently useful.
• Donald H. Menzel's Mathematical Physics, Dover press, ISBN 0-486-60056-4. This reference has a very nice discussion of dyads and how to express classical mechanics in tensor form, which is actually quite lovely.
• Fabulous complex variable/contour integration reference by Mark Trodden at Syracuse:
  http://physics.syr.edu/$\sim$trodden/courses/mathmethods/
  This online lecture note/book actually works through the Euler-Lagrange equation as well, but stops unfortunately short of doing EVERYTHING that we need in this course. It is only 70 pages, though - probably unfinished.
• Introduction to tensors by Joseph C. Kolecki at NASA:
  www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/Numbers/Math/documents/Tensors_TM2002211716.pdf
• Short review of tensors for a Berkeley cosmology course:
  http://grus.berkeley.edu/$\sim$jrg/ay202/node183.html
• Short review of tensors for a Winnipeg University cosmology course:
  http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/$\sim$vincent/4500.6-001/Cosmology/Tensors.htm
• Wikipedia:
  http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia now contains some excellent articles on real graduate-level electrodynamics, relativity theory, and more. The math and science community are determined to make it a one stop shop for supporting all sorts of coursework.
• Mathworld:
  http://mathworld.wolfram.com This site, too, is very good although some of the articles tend to be either then or overly technical at the expense of clarity.
• GIYF (Google Is Your Friend). When looking for help on any topic, give google a try. I do.