Elementary Electromagnetism Using Python: A Modern Course Combining Analytical and Numerical Techniques (Undergraduate Texts in Physics)

This textbook presents the core elements of an introductory electromagnetism course, integrating computational methods throughout the explanations, examples, and exercises.This approach helps students develop stronger problem-solving skills, enabling them to tackle complex and realistic physics problems earlier than would be possible using only analytical techniques.It promotes creativity, encourages exploration, and equips students with the tools to become active investigators while learning physics. The book’s philosophy is to provide worked examples that demonstrate the full workflow of solving physics problems, from modeling a system and simplifying it to an analytically solvable form to solving the complete model using computational methods.Each theoretical and computational step is clearly explained.Key computational techniques include numerical line, surface, and volume integrals; solutions to Laplace’s and Poisson’s equations; and computational analyses of simple and complex ci