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The third edition of the defining text for the graduate-level course in Electricity and Magnetism has finally arrived! It has been 37 years since the first edition and 24 since the second. The new edition addresses the changes in emphasis and applications that have occurred in the field, without any significant increase in length.
List of contents
Introduction and Survey
Chapter 1 / Introduction to Electrostatics
Chapter 2 / Boundary- Value Problems in Electrostatics: I
Chapter 3 / Boundary- Value Problems in Electrostatics: II
Chapter 4 / Multipoles, Electrostatics of Macroscopic Media, Dielectrics
Chapter 5 / Magnetostatics, Faraday's Law, Quasi-Static Fields
Chapter 6 / Maxwell Equations, Conservation Laws
Chapter 7 / Plane Electromagnetic Waves and Wave Propagation
Chapter 8 / Waveguides, Resonant Cavities, and Optical Fibers
Chapter 9 / Radiating Systems, Multipole Fields and Radiation
Chapter 10 / Scattering and Diffraction
Chapter 11 / Special Theory of Relativity
Chapter 12 / Dynamics of Relativistic Particles and Electromagnetic Fields
Chapter 13 / Collisions, Energy Loss, and Scattering of Charged Particles, Cherenkov
and Transition Radiation
Chapter 14 / Radiation by Moving Charges
Chapter 15 / Bremsstrahlung, Radiative Beta Processes
Chapter 16 / Radiation Damping, Classical Models of Charged Particles
A / Appendix on Units and Dimensions
B / Appendix on Equations of Macroscopic Electromagnetism
Index
Summary
The third edition of the defining text for the graduate-level course in Electricity and Magnetism has finally arrived! It has been 37 years since the first edition and 24 since the second. The new edition addresses the changes in emphasis and applications that have occurred in the field, without any significant increase in length.
