Principles of Electrodynamics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwartz, Melvin.

Series:

Dover Books on Physics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electrodynamics.

Local Subjects:

Electrodynamics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (610 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newburyport : Dover Publications, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Unlike most textbooks on electromagnetic theory, which treat electricity, magnetism, Coulomb's law and Faraday's law as almost independent subjects within the framework of the theory, this well-written text takes a relativistic point of view in which electric and magnetic fields are really different aspects of the same physical quantity.Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this volume offers a superb exposition of the essential unity of electromagnetism in its natural , relativistic framework while demonstrating the powerful constraint of relativistic invariance. It wil

Contents:

2 - Principles of Electrostatics2-1 INTRODUCTION; COULOMB'S LAW; 2-2 THE DIVERGENCE OF E; GAUSS' LAW; 2-3 A FEW WORDS ABOUT MATERIALS; CONDUCTORS; 2-4 THE CONSERVATIVE NATURE OF ELECTROSTATICS; POTENTIAL; 2-5 SOME IMPORTANT THEOREMS ABOUT POTENTIAL FUNCTIONS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS AND UNIQUENESS; 2-6 ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENT; POLARIZATION; DISPLACEMENT FIELD; 2-7 THE ENERGY OF A CHARGE DISTRIBUTION; 2-8 THE GENERAL THEORY OF CAPACITANCE; 2-9 CYLINDRICAL AND SPHERICAL COORDINATES; 2-10 SOLVING LAPLACE'S EQUATION IN CARTESIAN COORDINATES

2-11 SOLVING LAPLACE'S EQUATION IN CYLINDRICAL COORDINATES2-12 THE SOLUTION TO LAPLACE'S EQUATION IN SPHERICAL COORDINATES; 2-13 SOLVING BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEMS IN SPHERICAL COORDINATES WITH AZIMUTHAL SYMMETRY; 2-14 THE MULTIPOLE EXPANSION OF AN AZIMUTHALLY SYMMETRICAL CHARGE DISTRIBUTION; 2-15 THE INTERACTION ENERGY OF TWO NONOVERLAPPING AZIMUTHALLY SYMMETRIC CHARGE DISTRIBUTIONS; DETERMINATION OF NUCLEAR SHAPE; 2-16 THE ELECTROSTATIC STRESS TENSOR; 3 - Electromagnetism and Its Relation to Relativity; 3-1 INTRODUCTION; THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT; 3-2 THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION

3-3 CHARGE DENSITY AND CURRENT DENSITY AS COMPONENTS OF A FOUR-VECTOR3-4 THERE MUST BE A "MAGNETIC FIELD"| (THE REQUIREMENT OF LORENTZ INVARIANCE IMPLIES A VECTOR POTENTIAL); 3-5 THE ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS AS ELEMENTS OF A SECOND-RANK TENSOR; 3-6 MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; 4 - Time-Independent Current Distributions; Magnetostatics; 4-1 AN ELEMENTARY DERIVATION OF OHM'S LAW; 4-2 FINDING THE MAGNETIC FIELD THROUGH THE VECTOR POTENTIAL; 4-3 THE BIOT-SAVART LAW; 4-4 AMPERE'S LAW; 4-5 B AS THE GRADIENT OF A POTENTIAL FUNCTION; 4-6 MAGNETIZATION (M) AND THE H FIELD

4-7 THE ENERGY OF A STATIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION FORCE AND TORQUE ON A MAGNETIC DIPOLE; 4-8 THE MOTION OF A CHARGED PARTICLE IN A CONSTANT MAGNETIC FIELD; 4-9 THE MOTION OF A CHARGED PARTICLE IN CROSSED ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS; 4-10 LARMOR PRECESSION IN A MAGNETIC FIELD; 4-11 A METHOD OF MEASURING g - 2; 4-12 THE MAGNETIC STRESS TENSOR; 5 - The Variation of the Electromagnetic Field with Time: Faraday's Law, Displacement Currents, the Retarded Potential; 5-1 FARADAY'S LAW; 5-2 THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY; THE POYNTING VECTOR; 5-3 MOMENTUM CONSERVATION IN ELECTROMAGNETISM

5-4 ELECTROMAGNETIC MASS

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ISBN:

9780486134673

0486134679

9781621986379

1621986373

OCLC:

868272636