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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freeman, Richard, author.

King, James, author.

Lafyatis, Gregor, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electromagnetic waves.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (637 pages)

Edition:

New product edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : 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:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 29, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

0-19-179332-9

0-19-103997-7