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This document provides corrections to errors found in the third edition of the textbook "Classical Electrodynamics" by J. D. Jackson. It lists 27 specific corrections needed for equations, text, running headers, and problem statements throughout the book. The corrections range from minor typographical errors to missing or incorrect variables, units, or mathematical expressions.

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Ce 3 Errat

This document provides corrections to errors found in the third edition of the textbook "Classical Electrodynamics" by J. D. Jackson. It lists 27 specific corrections needed for equations, text, running headers, and problem statements throughout the book. The corrections range from minor typographical errors to missing or incorrect variables, units, or mathematical expressions.

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Errata for J. D.

Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd edition (2002-2006)


[These are typos and other corrections or improvements subsequent to all the errata
incorporated up to the eighth printing in 2002.]

p. 72 - Seven lines above Eq.(2.59) - Replace y≤ 0 by y ≥ 0.

p. 98 - Equation (3.18) - Delete the parenthesis ( after l(l+1) in the integrand.

p. 147 - last line of Eq.(4.11) - argument of Ylm should be (q, f), not (r, f).

p. 177 - line above Eq.(5.7) - Add "(in Gaussian units multiply right-hand side by 1/c)"

p. 177 - line above Eq.(5.8) - Change to read "(5.4) and (5.7) with k = µ0/4#]: "

p. 178 - last line of Sect. 5.2 - Add new sentence "Note that in Gaussian units, both (5.12)
and (5.13) have an added factor 1/c on the right hand side. "

p. 211 - line above (5.141) - Replace the whole line with " in the definition of the magnetic
force (5.7). In SI units Faraday's law (5.136) therefore reads "
2 2 2 2
p. 232 - Problem 5.28 - the definition of k should be k = 4ab/[(a+b) + d ].

p. 241 - Running Head should read Lorenz, not Lorentz.

p. 242 - in line above (6.27), after J add “at a fixed time”.


- in Eqs.(6.27) and (6.28) add (x, t) as arguments to the J’s on the left and add (x', t)
to the J’s in the integrals on the right.

p. 296 - Left-hand side of last equation should read B(x, t).

p. 298 - In unnumbered equation in the middle of the page, the first exponential factor on the
RHS has an incorrect subscript •x in the exponent. Change e -kn I ⋅x Æ e -kn I ⋅x

p. 306 - last paragraph of Section 7.3:


- line above (7.42) - Delete the word "both"
- second equation in (7.42) - add ± in front of both expressions on RHS.
- Replace the last two sentences with "For the reflected wave the upper (lower) sign
holds for polarization parallel (perpendicular) to the plane of incidence. For n' > n
there is thus a phase reversal for the reflected wave at normal incidence (See Fig.
7.6).

p. 380 - last line, unnumbered equation - The first factor on the RHS should read
exp[ iw S( x0 )/ c ] , not exp[ iw S( x0 )] .

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p. 410, second equation - there should be a factor of r in the denominator.

p. 451 - Problem 9.6(b) - The expression for B(x, t) should be multiplied by c to decrease the
powers of c in the denominators by one power each.

p. 519 - unnumbered equation below (11.7) - denominator on right should be c', not c.

p. 577 - Problem 11.28 - At the beginning of line 3, replace boldface F' with F' .

p. 599 - Eq.(12.84) - last expression on the right should have 1/c in front of the integral.

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