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Zusatztext 'This comprehensive textbook gives refreshing insights into classical electrodynamics! with emphasis on the physics without sacrificing mathematical rigor. I particularly like the numerous worked examples and sections on applications! which show the relevance of the topics to modern research. The problems! with comprehensive solutions for the busy instructor! will be excellent for students to get to grips with the material.' Shirley Chiang! University of California! Davis Informationen zum Autor Andrew Zangwill is a Professor of Physics at Georgia Institute of Technology, with research interests in theoretical condensed matter physics. He is the author of the popular textbook Physics at Surfaces (Cambridge University Press, 1988) and has taught classical electromagnetism at the graduate and undergraduate levels for twenty years. Klappentext An engaging writing style and a strong focus on the physics make this graduate-level textbook a must-have for electromagnetism students. Zusammenfassung An engaging writing style and a strong focus on the physics make this comprehensive! graduate-level textbook unique among existing classical electromagnetism textbooks. It features close to 120 worked examples! 80 applications boxes and nearly 600 end-of-chapter homework problems! with a solutions manual available to instructors at www.cambridge.org/Zangwill. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Mathematical preliminaries; 2. The Maxwell equations; 3. Electrostatics; 4. Electric multipoles; 5. Conducting matter; 6. Dielectric matter; 7. Laplace's Equation; 8. Poisson's Equation; 9. Steady current; 10. Magnetostatics; 11. Magnetic multipoles; 12. Magnetic force and energy; 13. Magnetic matter; 14. Dynamic and quasistatic fields; 15. General electromagnetic fields; 16. Waves in vacuum; 17. Waves in simple matter; 18. Waves in dispersive matter; 19. Guided and confined waves; 20. Retardation and radiation; 21. Scattering and diffraction; 22. Special relativity; 23. Fields from moving charges; 24. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian methods; Appendixes; Index....
