Lectures on Electrodynamics

✍ Scribed by J. Robert Oppenheimer

• Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 176
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"There is no shortage of electrodynamics textbooks ranging from Jackson, to Griffiths to Schwinger, to name a few. But none of the mentioned books could replace Oppenheimer’s unique book. This is a book primarily for electrodynamics, but offering many insightful hints for quantum aspect of the theory. A gem that should be read by every physics students." ~ Frank, Amazon review

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Preface
Contents
I. Maxwell's Theory
1. Introduction: Definition of the Fields
2. Maxwell's Equations
3. Solution of the Equations in Free Space
4. Applications to the Skin Effect and Metallic Reflection
5. Energy and Momentum of an Electromagnetic Field
6. Radiation from a Charge and Current Distribution
7. Solution of Maxwell's Equations in Terms of Retarded Potentials
8. Classification of Multipole Radiation
9. Energy of a Nearly Static Distribution of Charge
10. Lienard-Wiechert Point Potential
11. Field of a Uniformly Moving Point Charge
12. Field of an Accelerated Point Charge
13. Rate of Radiation of Energy from an Accelerated Point Charge
14. Application to a Simple Theory of Bremsstrahlung
15. Radiation Reaction
16. Self-energy of the Electron
17. Classical Theory of Scattering and Dispersion
18. Hamiltonian Theory for the Motion of a Charged Particle in an Electromagnetic Field
II. Special Theory of Relativity
19. Transformation of Newton's Equations
20. Michelson-Morley and Kennedy-Thorndyke Experiments
21. Lorentz Transformation
22. Minkowski Diagram
23. Derivation of the Fresnel Coefficient and the Aberration Formula
24. Covariance
25. Transformation Laws of the Electromagnetic Quantities
26. Application to the Method of Virtual Quanta
27. Application to the Theory of the Cerenkov Effect
28. Transformation of Energy and Momentum
29. Inertia and Energy
30. Considerations Important for the Quantum Theory
Index