| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 624 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover page; Electromagnetic Radiation; Copyright; Contents; Part I: Introductory Foundations; 1: Essentials of Electricity and Magnetism; 1.1 Maxwell's static equations in vacuum; 1.1.1 Electrostatic equations; 1.1.2 Magnetostatic equations; 1.1.3 Lorentz force; 1.2 Maxwell's static equations in matter; 1.2.1 Response of material to fields; 1.2.2 Bound charges and currents; 1.2.3 Macroscopic fields; 1.2.4 Polarizability and Susceptibility; 1.2.5 The canonical constitutive relations; 1.2.6 Electric fields and free charges in materials; 1.3 Energy of static charge and current configurations |
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1.3.1 Electrostatic field energy1.3.2 Magnetic field energy; 1.4 Maxwell's dynamic equations in vacuum; 1.4.1 Faraday's contribution; 1.4.2 Conservation of charge and the continuity equation; 1.4.3 Maxwell's contribution; 1.5 Maxwell's dynamic equations in matter; 1.5.1 Origin of material currents; 1.6 Plane wave propagation in vacuum; 1.6.1 Polarization of plane waves; 1.7 E & M propagation within simple media; 1.8 Electromagnetic conservation laws; 1.8.1 Energy density; 1.8.2 Poynting's Theorem; 1.8.3 Linear momentum density; 1.8.4 Maxwell stress tensor; 1.9 Radiation in vacuum |
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1.9.1 Field amplitude as a function of distance from the source1.9.2 Decoupling of radiation fields from the source; 1.9.3 Illustration of coupled and decoupled fields from an accelerated charge; Exercises; 1.10 Discussions; 2: The Potentials; 2.1 The magnetic and electric fields in terms of potentials; 2.2 Gauge considerations; 2.3 The wave equations prescribing the potentials using the Lorenz gauge; 2.4 Retarded time; 2.4.1 Potentials with retarded time; 2.5 Moments of the retarded potential; 2.5.1 Potential zones; Near zone potential; Intermediate zone potential |
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Far (radiation) zone potential2.5.2 General expansion of the retarded potential; Electric dipole term; Magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole terms; Transverse fields in the radiation zone; Exercises; 2.6 Discussions; Part II: Origins of Radiation Fields; 3: General Relations between Fields and Sources; 3.1 Relating retarded potentials to observable fields; 3.1.1 Spatial derivatives of retarded potentials; 3.2 Jefimenko's equations from the retarded potentials; 3.3 Graphical representation of transverse fields arising from acceleration |
| Summary |
This graduate level textbook aims to teach fundamental ideas of advanced classical electrodynamics, with an emphasis on the physics of radiation. The text describes concepts with the minimum required mathematical detail, while the accompanying side notes and end of chapter discussions provide the detailed derivations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 29, 2019) |
| Subject |
Electromagnetic waves -- Textbooks
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Electrodynamics -- Textbooks
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Quantum Theory.
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Electrodynamics
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Electromagnetic waves
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks
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Textbooks.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
King, James (Senior scientist), author.
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Lafyatis, Gregory, author.
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| ISBN |
9780191039973 |
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0191039977 |
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0191793329 |
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9780191793325 |
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