04905nam 22007573u 450 991100680070332120230802010950.09780486134673048613467997816219863791621986373(CKB)2550000001186543(EBL)1894797(SSID)ssj0001002767(PQKBManifestationID)12452366(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001002767(PQKBWorkID)11014377(PQKB)10941187(MiAaPQ)EBC1894797(Au-PeEL)EBL1894797(CaONFJC)MIL565914(OCoLC)868272636(Perlego)110842(EXLCZ)99255000000118654320141222d2012|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrPrinciples of Electrodynamics1st ed.Newburyport Dover Publications20121 online resource (610 p.)Dover Books on PhysicsDescription based upon print version of record.9780486654935 0486654931 9781306346634 1306346630 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 COORDINATES2-11 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 TRANSFORMATION3-3 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 FIELD4-7 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 ELECTROMAGNETISM5-4 ELECTROMAGNETIC MASS 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 wilDover Books on PhysicsElectrodynamicsElectrodynamicsPhysicsHILCCPhysical Sciences & MathematicsHILCCElectricity & MagnetismHILCCElectrodynamics.Electrodynamics.PhysicsPhysical Sciences & MathematicsElectricity & Magnetism537.6Schwartz Melvin463409AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9911006800703321Principles of electrodynamics190680UNINA