Table of Contents

Preface, Reader's Guide, 1 Maxwell's Equations, 2 Magnetic Charge I, 3 Conservation Laws, 4 Macroscopic Electrodynamics, 5 Simple Model for Constitutive Relations, 6 Magnetic Properties of Matter, 7 Macroscopic Energy and Momentum, 8 Review of Action Principles, 9 Action Principle for Electrodynamics, 10 Einsteinian Relativity, 11 Stationary Principles for Electrostatics, 12 Introduction to Green's Functions, 13 Electrostatics in Free Space, 14 Semi-Infinite Dielectric, 15 Application of Green's Function, 16 Bessel Functions, 17 Parallel Conducting Plates, 18 Modified Bessel Functions, 19 Cylindrical Conductors, 20 Spherical Harmonics, 21 Coulomb's Potential, 22 Multipoles, 23 Conducting and Dielectric Spheres, 24 Dielectrics and Conductors, 25 Modes and Variations, 26 Magnetostatics, 27 Macroscopic Current Distributions, 28 Magnetic Multipoles, 29 Magnetic Scalar Potential, 30 Magnetic Charge II, 31 Retarded Green's Function, 32 Radiation-Field Point of View, 33 Radiation-Source Point of View, 34 Models of Antennas, 35 Spectral Distribution of Radiation, 36 Power Spectrum and Cerenkov Radiation, 37 Constant Acceleration and Impulse, 38 Synchrotron Radiation I, 39 Synchrotron Radiation II-Polarization, 40 Synchrotron Radiation III-High Energies, 41 Propagation in a Dielectric Medium, 42 Reflection by an Imperfect Conductor, 43 Cylindrical Coordinates, 44 Waveguides, 45 Scattering by Small Obstacles, 46 Partial-Wave Analysis of Scattering, 4 7 Diffraction I, 48 Diffraction II, 49 Babinet's Principle, 50 General Scattering, 51 Dispersion Relations for the Susceptibility, 52 Charged Particle Energy Loss, A Units, B Bibliography, Index

About the Author

Julian Schwinger (1918-1994) was born in New York City. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University in 1939. He also received honourary 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 labouratory 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 labouratory 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 labouratory 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 labouratory in Pasadena, California.