Description
Book SynopsisA contemporary textbook in the field of electromagnetism. Not only is it comprehensive in its coverage of undergraduate material on electrodynamics, but the textboook includes some advanced topics in applied physics, such as fusions plasmas, stellar magnetism and planetary dynamos.
Table of Contents1: Vector Calculus 2: The Physical Signatures of Three Important Partial Differential Equations 3: A Bird's Eye View of Electromagnetism 4: The Foundations of Electrostatics 5: Solving for Electrostatic Fields, the Multipole Expansion and Electrostatic Energy 6: Dielectrics 7: Magnetostatics I: The Magnetic Field, Ampère's Law and the Biot-Savart Law 8: 8 Magnetostatics II: Dipoles, Force Distributions and Energy 9: Magnetic Fields in Matter 10: Faraday's Law of Electromagnetic Induction 11: Quasi-Static Magnetic Fields: Magnetic Energy and Inductance 12: Transient and AC Circuits 13: Static Versus Dynamic Fields: Maxwell's Equations 14: Confined Waves: Transmission Lines, Waveguides and Resonant Cavities 15: Maxwell's Equations in Free Space I: the Propagation of Waves 16: Maxwell's Equations in Free Space II: Radiation 17: Maxwell's Equations in Free Space III: the Fields of Moving Charges 18: Maxwell's Equations in Dielectric and Magnetic Materials 19: Plane Waves in Stationary Dielectrics and Conductors 20: Magnetoydrodynamics I: Governing Equations and Kinematic Theorems 21: Magnetohydrodynamics II: Fusion Plasmas, Alfvén Waves, Planetary Dynamos and Stellar Magnetism 22: An Introduction to Special Relativity 23: Electromagnetism and Special Relativity
