Electromagnetic fields for dummies?

[Rehn]

So I'm currently taking what I consider the hardest class ever for me. First week seems easy: coordinate systems and how to convert between them. Now as more days go by the professor could be lecturing in russian and I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Is there any simplified resource I could look at to improve my (lack of) understanding for this class?

[Surealistic]

ghost hunters, they talk about these a lot lol

[BaneTheBrawler]

no one knows how magnets work

[Xno Kappa]

no one knows how magnets work

Lol

[Stromgarde]

[Deadgye]

So I'm currently taking what I consider the hardest class ever for me. First week seems easy: coordinate systems and how to convert between them. Now as more days go by the professor could be lecturing in russian and I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Is there any simplified resource I could look at to improve my (lack of) understanding for this class?

Electromagnetics and Transmission Line Theory! Have you started casting black magic yet? I thankfully didn't have to take the class since I was a CE major, but my EE friends had to. It was one of those "Aim for the D" classes, since you'd be happy with anything above an F.

[BerenTebogo]

Electricity and Magnetism by David Griffiths

Buy it.

Learn it.

Don't love it, but keep it anyway.

[Rehn]

No idea what reference the first few posts are talking about. I'll check out your suggestion, Sath.

[Gokku]

Icp miracles

[Kryssan]

I'm not sure if it's necessarily a 'simplified' resource, but Feynnman's lectures also include information on electromagnetism. Pretty sure it's just Volume II, so here's a link. You can read the whole thing online without buying it.

[Charismatic]

Needed to be posted, thank ye sir.

[Kooldachio]

I really have no good suggestion, sadly. I have a MS in EE and Electromagnetics was the hardest class I ever took. I ended up dropping it (only engineering class I ever dropped in college) and retook it during the summer with some ludicrously easy professor that basically handed out As but didn't teach a soul. Understanding the classroom material is so exceptionally harder than it needs to be in order to function as a working industry professional in the area. Once you hit Maxwell's equations and integrate across a million dimensions, you just want to kill yourself. All I have to say is GOOD LUCK.
Oh and also, might want to check if there are any free MIT courses on the subject matter. May help

[Indalecia]

Electricity and Magnetism by David Griffiths

Buy it.

Learn it.

Don't love it, but keep it anyway.

Gonna second this. Purcell had a version that was baseline for a while but I found Griffiths makes the entry level and higher end language easier to wrap your head around. It's still gonna be dry, but its in-depth.

EDIT: The latest edition I should say, 4th. The language is less ambiguous in certain areas, if that makes sense to you.