Principles of Electrodynamics

✍ Scribed by Schwartz, Melvin

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 1972
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 359
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level text by the 1988 Nobel Prize winner establishes the subject's mathematical background, reviews the principles of electrostatics, then introduces Einstein's special theory of relativity and applies it throughout the book in topics ranging from Gauss' theorem and Coulomb's law to electric and magnetic susceptibility.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
• Front Matter
• Preface
• Table of Contents
1. Mathematical Review and Survey of Some New Mathematical Ideas
2. Principles of Electrostatics
3. Electromagnetism and its Relation to Relativity
4. Time-Independent Current Distributions; Magnetostatics
5. The Variation of the Electromagnetic Field with Time: Faraday's Law, Displacement Currents, the Retarded Potential
6. Let There Be Light!
7. The Interaction of Radiation with Matter
8. Multipole Expansion of the Radiation Field; Some Further Considerations on the Interaction of Radiation with Matter; Interference and Diffraction
9. Waveguides and Cavities
10. Electric and Magnetic Susceptibility
• Tables
Index