Classical Electromagnetic Theory (eBook)

Jack Vanderlinde (Autor)

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2006 | 2nd ed. 2004
XV, 420 Seiten
Springer Netherland (Verlag)
978-1-4020-2700-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) This book is a second edition of 'Classical Electromagnetic Theory' which derived from a set of lecture notes compiled over a number of years of teaching elect- magnetic theory to fourth year physics and electrical engineering students. These students had a previous exposure to electricity and magnetism, and the material from the ?rst four and a half chapters was presented as a review. I believe that the book makes a reasonable transition between the many excellent elementary books such as Gri?th's Introduction to Electrodynamics and the obviously graduate level books such as Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics or Landau and Lifshitz' Elect- dynamics of Continuous Media. If the students have had a previous exposure to Electromagnetictheory, allthematerialcanbereasonablycoveredintwosemesters. Neophytes should probable spend a semester on the ?rst four or ?ve chapters as well as, depending on their mathematical background, the Appendices B to F. For a shorter or more elementary course, the material on spherical waves, waveguides, and waves in anisotropic media may be omitted without loss of continuity.

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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) This book is a second edition of "e;Classical Electromagnetic Theory"e; which derived from a set of lecture notes compiled over a number of years of teaching elect- magnetic theory to fourth year physics and electrical engineering students. These students had a previous exposure to electricity and magnetism, and the material from the ?rst four and a half chapters was presented as a review. I believe that the book makes a reasonable transition between the many excellent elementary books such as Gri?th's Introduction to Electrodynamics and the obviously graduate level books such as Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics or Landau and Lifshitz' Elect- dynamics of Continuous Media. If the students have had a previous exposure to Electromagnetictheory, allthematerialcanbereasonablycoveredintwosemesters. Neophytes should probable spend a semester on the ?rst four or ?ve chapters as well as, depending on their mathematical background, the Appendices B to F. For a shorter or more elementary course, the material on spherical waves, waveguides, and waves in anisotropic media may be omitted without loss of continuity.

Inhalt

Static Electric and Magnetic Fields in Vacuum.- Charge and Current Distributions.- Slowly Varying Fields in Vacuum.- Energy and Momentum.- Static Potentials in Vacuum — Laplace’s Equation.- Static Potentials with Sources—Poisson’s Equation.- Static Electromagnetic Fields in Matter.- Time-Dependent Electromagnetic Fields in Matter.- Waveguide Propagation—Bounded Waves.- Electromagnetic Radiation.- The Covariant Formulation.- Radiation Reaction-Electrodynamics.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.1.2006
• Reihe/Serie: Fundamental Theories of Physics
• Reihe/Serie: Fundamental Theories of Physics
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 420 p.
• Verlagsort: Dordrecht
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Classical electrodynamics • Electrodynamic Theory • International System of Units (SI) • Magnetic field • pc 9141 • Potential • SI unit
• ISBN-10: 1-4020-2700-1 / 1402027001
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-2700-0 / 9781402027000