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Classical Electrodynamics
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Julian Schwinger, Lester L. Deraad, Kimball A. Milton, Wu-Yang Tsai
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Classical Electrodynamics captures Schwingers inimitable lecturing style, in which everything flows inexorably from what has gone before. Novel elements of the approach include the immediate inference of Maxwells equations from Coulombs law and (Galilean) relativity, the use of action and stationary principles, the central role of Greens functions both in statics and dynamics, and, throughout, the integration of mathematics and physics. Thus, physical problems in electrostatics are used to develop the properties of Bessel functions and spherical harmonics. The latter portion of the book is devoted to radiation, with rather complete treatments of synchrotron radiation and diffraction, and the formulation of the mode decomposition for waveguides and scattering. Consequently, the book provides the student with a thorough grounding in electrodynamics in particular, and in classical field theory in general, subjects with enormous practical applications, and which are essential prerequisites for the study of quantum field theory. An essential resource for both physicists and their students, the book includes a Readers Guide, which describes the major themes in each chapter, suggests a possible path through the book, and identifies topics for inclusion in, and exclusion from, a given course, depending on the instructors preference. Carefully constructed problems complement the material of the text, and introduce new topics. The book should be of great value to all physicists, from first-year graduate students to senior researchers, and to all those interested in electrodynamics, field theory, and mathematical physics. The text for the graduate classical electrodynamics course was left unfinished upon Julian Schwingers death in 1994, but was completed by his coauthors, who have brilliantly recreated the excitement of Schwingers novel approach. |
Table of Contents* Readers Guide * Maxwells Equations * Magnetic Charge I * Conservation Laws * Macroscopic Electrodynamics * Simple Model for Constitutive Relations * Magnetic Properties of Matter * Macroscopic Energy and Momentum * Review of Action Principles * Action Principle for Electrodynamics * Einsteinian Relativity * Stationary Principles for Electrostatics * Introduction to Greens Functions * Electrostatics in Free Space * Semi-Infinite Dielectric * Application of Greens Function * Bessel Functions * Parallel Conducting Plates * Modified Bessel Functions * Cylindrical Conductors * Spherical Harmonics * Coulombs Potential * Multipoles * Conducting and Dielectric Spheres * Dielectrics and Conductors * Modes and Variations * Magnetostatics * Macroscopic Current Distributions * Application of Greens Function * Magnetic Multipoles * Magnetic Scalar Potential * Magnetic Charge II * Retarded Greens Function * RadiationField Point of View * Models of Antennas * Spectral Distribution of Radiation * Power Spectrum and Cerenkov Radiation * Constant Acceleration and Impulse * Synchrotron Radiation I * Synchrotron Radiation IIPolarization * Synchrotron Radiation IIIHigh Energies * Propagation in a Dielectric Medium * Reflection by an Imperfect Conductor * Cylindrical Coordinates * Waveguides * Scattering by Small Obstacles * Partial-Wave Analysis of Scattering * Diffraction I * Diffraction II * Babinets Principle * General Scattering * Dispersion Relations for the Susceptibility * Charged Particle Energy Loss About the AuthorJulian Schwinger (1918-1994) was born in New York City. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University in 1939. He also received honorary doctorates in science from Purdue, Brandeis, Harvard, and Gustavus Adolphus College. He taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1972 until his death. In 1965, Dr. Schwinger received (with Richard Feynman and Sin Itiro Tomonaga) the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in quantum electrodynamics. A National Research Foundation Fellow (1939-1940) and a Guggenheim Fellow (1970), he was the recipient of many awards, including: the First Einstein Prize Award for Physics (1964), and the American Academy of Achievement Award (1987). The late Julian Schwinger shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics with Richard Feynman and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga for their work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics. Lester L. DeRaad, Jr. is Senior Research Specialist at Logicon RDA. Kimball A Milton is Professor of Physics at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. Wu-yang Tsai is Scatterometer Project Engineer and Group Supervisor at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The late Julian Schwinger shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics with Richard Feynman and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga for their work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics. Lester L. DeRaad, Jr. is Senior Research Specialist at Logicon RDA. Kimball A Milton is Professor of Physics at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. Wu-yang Tsai is Scatterometer Project Engineer and Group Supervisor at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The late Julian Schwinger shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics with Richard Feynman and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga for their work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics. Lester L. DeRaad, Jr. is Senior Research Specialist at Logicon RDA. Kimball A Milton is Professor of Physics at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. Wu-yang Tsai is Scatterometer Project Engineer and Group Supervisor at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The late Julian Schwinger shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics with Richard Feynman and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga for their work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics. Lester L. DeRaad, Jr. is Senior Research Specialist at Logicon RDA. Kimball A Milton is Professor of Physics at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. Wu-yang Tsai is Scatterometer Project Engineer and Group Supervisor at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
| Publisher: | Perseus Books | | ISBN: | 0738200565 |
| EAN: | 9780738200569 | | Dimensions: | 22.86 x 15.24 x 3.66 centimeters (0.95 kg) |
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