Principles of Electrodynamics

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911006800703321
• Autore: Schwartz Melvin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newburyport, : Dover Publications, 2012
• ISBN: 9780486134673; 0486134679; 9781621986379; 1621986373
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (610 p.)
• Collana: Dover Books on Physics
• Disciplina: 537.6
• Soggetti: Electrodynamics; Physics; Physical Sciences & Mathematics; Electricity & Magnetism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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