
The textbook comprehensively covers all the expected topics—electrostatics, magnetostatics, induction, electromagnetic waves, and transmission lines—but it does so with a consistent focus on modern applications and theoretical clarity. A significant feature is its strong chapter on electromagnetic radiation, which clearly derives the wave equation from
Maxwell's equations and discusses antenna theory. Furthermore, it ventures into more advanced territory that is often glossed over in
undergraduate texts, including a solid introduction to special relativity. Fitzpatrick expertly shows how relativity elegantly unifies electric and magnetic fields into a single electromagnetic field tensor, resolving what once seemed like separate phenomena into a single coherent framework dependent on the observer's frame of reference.