Electromagnetic theory / Attay Kovetz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kovetz, Attay.

Contributor:

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

Oxford science publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electromagnetic theory.

Physical Description:

xiii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Summary:

This textbook is intended for undergraduate and graduate students taking an intermediate or advanced course in electromagnetism. It presents electromagnetism as a classical theory, based, like mechanics, on principles that are independent of the atomic constitution of matter. This book is unique among electrodynamics texts in its treatment of the precise manner in which electromagnetism is linked to mechanics and thermodynamics.

Contents:

Electric charges and currents

The calculus of antisymmetric tensors

The first pair of Maxwell's equations

The second pair of Maxwell's equations

The aether relations and the theory of relativity

Charged particles

Polarization and magnetization

Electrostatics

Linear dielectrics

Steady currents in linearly conducting magnets

Linear magnets

Radiation

Electromagnetic wave propagation

A review of continuum mechanics

The fusion of electromagnetism with mechanics and thermodynamics

Magnetohydrodynamics

Electric materials

Magnetic materials

Appendix A: Gaussian units

Appendix B: Solutions to the exercises.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page [341]) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

019850604X

0198506031

OCLC:

42296577

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