Classical electrodynamics / Julian Schwinger, Lester L. DeRaad, Jr., Kimball A. Milton, Wu-yang Tsai.

Classical Electrodynamics captures Schwinger's inimitable lecturing style, in which everything flows inexorably from what has gone before. Novel elements of the approach include the immediate inference of Maxwell's equations from Coulomb's law and (Galilean) relativity, the use of act...

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Main Authors: Schwinger, Julian, 1918-1994 (Author), Deraad, Lester L. (Author), Milton, K. A. (Author), Tsai, Wu-yang (Author)
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Language:English
Published: [Boca Raton] : CRC Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a 1. Maxwell's Equations -- 2. Magnetic Charge I IT -- 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 -- 47. Diffraction I -- 48. Diffraction II -- 49. Babinet's Principle -- 50. General Scattering -- 51. Dispersion Relations for the Susceptibility -- 52. Charged Particle Energy Loss. 
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