Basic Electromagnetism and Materials

✍ Scribed by André Moliton (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 439
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Basic Electromagnetism and Materials is the product of many years of teaching basic and applied electromagnetism. This textbook can be used to teach electromagnetism to a wide range of undergraduate science majors in physics, electrical engineering or materials science. However, by making lesser demands on mathematical knowledge than competing texts, and by emphasizing electromagnetic properties of materials and their applications, this textbook is uniquely suited to students of materials science. Many competing texts focus on the study of propagation waves either in the microwave or optical domain, whereas Basic Electromagnetism and Materials covers the entire electromagnetic domain and the physical response of materials to these waves.

Professor André Moliton is Director of the Unité de Microélectronique, Optoélectronique et Polymères (Université de Limoges, France), which brings together three groups studying the optoelectronics of molecular and polymer layers, micro-optoelectronic systems for telecommunications, and micro-electronics and microtechnology through the use of ion implantation and simulations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction to the Fundamental Equations of Electrostatics and Magnetostatics in vacuums and Conductors....Pages 1-37
Electrostatics of Dielectric Materials....Pages 39-87
Magnetic Properties of Materials....Pages 89-118
Dielectric and Magnetic Materials....Pages 119-155
Time-Varying Electromagnetic Fields and Maxwell’s Equations....Pages 157-171
General Properties of Electromagnetic Waves and Their Propagation through Vacuums....Pages 173-204
Electromagnetic Waves in Absorbent and Dispersing Infinite Materials and the Poynting Vector....Pages 205-225
Waves in Plasmas and Dielectric, Metallic, and Magnetic Materials....Pages 227-265
Electromagnetic Field Sources, Dipolar Radiation, and Antennae....Pages 267-288
Interactions between Materials and Electromagnetic Waves, and Diffusion and Absorption Processes....Pages 289-315
Reflection and Refraction of Electromagnetic Waves in Absorbent Materials of Finite Dimensions....Pages 317-365
Total Reflection and Guided Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves in Materials of Finite Dimensions....Pages 367-425
Back Matter....Pages 427-430

✦ Subjects

Electromagnetism, Optics and Lasers; Optical and Electronic Materials; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering; Physics and Applied Physics in Engineering; Magnetism, Magnetic Materials