Electromagnetic radiation / Richard Freeman, James King, Gregory Lafyatis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freeman, R. R. (Richard R.), author.

Contributor:

Carl Hering Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electromagnetic waves.

Physical Description:

xii, 624 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This graduate level textbook aims to teach fundamental ideas of advanced classical electrodynamics, with an emphasis on the physics of radiation. The text describes concepts with the minimum required mathematical detail, while the accompanying side notes and end of chapter discussions provide the detailed derivations.

Contents:

Part I: Introductory Foundations

1: Essentials of Electricity and Magnetism

2: The Potentials

Part II: Origins of Radiation Fields

3: General Relations between Fields and Sources

4: Fields in terms of the Multiple Moments of the Source

Part III: Electromagnetism and Special Relativity

5: Introduction to Special Relativity

6: Radiation from Charges Moving at Relativistic Velocities

7: Relativistic Electrodynamics

8: Field Reactions to Moving Charges

Part IV: Radiation in Materials

9: Properties of Electromagnetic Radiation in Materials

10: Models of Electromagnetic Response of Materials

11: Scattering of Electromagnetic Radiation in Materials

12: Diffraction and the Propagation of Light

13: Radiation Fields in Constrained Environments.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Carl Hering Library Fund.

ISBN:

0198726503

9780198726500

OCLC:

1049817783