Melia, Fulvio.
Electrodynamics / Fulvio Melia.
— Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c2001. x, 251 p. : il. ; 24 cm. — (Chicago lectures in physics)
Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 239-243) e índices.
Machine generated contents note: PREFACE — 1 INTRODUCTION — 1.1 The Physical Basis of Maxwell's Equations — 1.2 Maxwell's Equations in Matter — 1.3 The Mathematical Structure of Electrodynamics — 1.3.1 Electrostatic Phenomena — 1.3.2 Magnetostatic Phenomena — 1.3.3 Wave Phenomena — 1.3.4 The General Case — 1.3.5 The Mathematical Apparatus — 2 TIME-INDEPENDENT FIELDS — 2.1 Electrostatics — 2.1.1 Method 1: Guesses and Symmetries — 2.1.2 Method 2: The Green Function — 2.1.3 Expansions with Orthonormal Functions — 2.2 Magnetostatics — 2.2.1 Method 1: The Magnetic Scalar Potential — 2.2.2 Method 2: The Magnetic Vector Potential — 2.2.3 Method 3: Hard Ferromagnets — 3 GENERAL PROPERTIES OF MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS — 3.1 Time-Varying Fields — 3.2 The Time-Dependent Green Function — 3.3 Conservation Laws — 3.3.1 Field Energy Density and Poynting's Theorem — 3.3.2 Conservation of Linear Momentum — 3.3.3 The Maxwell Stress Tensor — 3.3.4 Conservation of Angular Momentum — 4 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES AND RADIATION — 4.1 Electromagnetic Waves — 4.2 Polarization and Stokes Parameters — 4.3 Reflection and Refraction — 4.4 Time Harmonic Fields in Matter — 4.5 Wave Guides — 4.6 Radiation — 4.6.1 Point Currents and Li6nard-Wiechert Potentials — 4.6.2 The Radiation Fields — 4.6.3 Simple Radiating Systems — 5 A NEED FOR THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY — 5.1 Basic Principles and Transformations — 5.2 Mathematical Structure of Four-Dimensional Spacetime — 5.3 Lorentz Transformation Properties of Physical Quantities — 5.4 Lorentz Transformation of Macroscopic Electrodynamics — 5.5 Stress-Energy Momentum Tensor and Conservation Laws — 6 THE LAGRANGIAN FORMULATION OF ELECTRODYNAMICS — 6.1 Action Principles in Classical Field Theories — 6.2 Relativistic Lagrangians of Point-Charge Motions — 6.3 The Field Lagrangian — 6.4 Invariances and Conservation Laws (Noether's Theorem) — 7 RELATIVISTIC TREATMENT OF RADIATION — 7.1 The Green Function in Four-Dimensional Spacetime — 7.2 Li6nard-Wiechert Potentials and Fields for a Point Charge — 7.3 Angular Distribution of the Emitted Radiation — 7.4 Bremsstrahlung Radiation — 7.5 Radiative Motions of a Point Charge — 7.6 Radiation Damping and the Relativistic Lorentz-Dirac — Equation — 8 SPECIAL TOPICS — 8.1 Time-Independent Multipole Fields — 8.2 Multipole Expansion of Time-Dependent Fields — 8.3 Collisions between Charged Particles — 8.4 Magnetohydrodynamics — 8.5 Alfv6n Waves and Particle Acceleration — 8.6 Synchrotron Emission — 8.7 Echoes of the Big Bang — 8.8 Cosmic Superluminal Sources — 8.9 Polarized Radiation from the Black Hole at the Galactic — Center.
ISBN 0226519570 (cloth alk. paper). — ISBN 0226519589 (pbk. alk. paper)
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