Electrodynamics
Fulvio Melia.
Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, ©2001.
x, 251 págs. : ilustraciones ; 24 cm.
Serie: Chicago lectures in physics
ISBN: 0226519570 (cloth : alk. paper), 0226519589 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 239-243) e índices.
Contenido
- 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.
