Classical Electrodynamics

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Avalon Publishing, Sep 11, 1998 - Science - 592 pages
This text for the graduate classical electrodynamics course was left unfinished upon Julian Schwinger’s death in 1994, but was completed by his coauthors, who have brilliantly recreated the excitement of Schwinger’s novel approach. Classical Electrodynamics captures Schwinger’s inimitable lecturing style, in which everything flows inexorably from what has gone before. An essential resource for both physicists and their students, the book includes a “Reader’s 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 instructor’s preference. Carefully constructed problems complement the material of the text, and introduce new topics. The book will 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.
 

Contents

1 Maxwells Equations
1
2 Magnetic Charge I
17
3 Conservation Laws
21
4 Macroscopic Electrodynamics
33
5 Simple Model for Constitutive Relations
45
6 Magnetic Properties of Matter
63
7 Macroscopic Energy and Momentum
75
8 Review of Action Principles
85
29 Magnetic Scalar Potential
331
30 Magnetic Charge II
337
31 Retarded Greens Function
341
32 RadiationField Point of View
351
33 RadiationSource Point of View
361
34 Models of Antennas
367
35 Spectral Distribution of Radiation
375
36 Power Spectrum and Cerenkov Radiation
385

9 Action Principle for Electrodynamics
97
10 Einsteinian Relativity
111
11 Stationary Principles for Electrostatics
125
12 Introduction to Greens Functions
137
13 Electrostatics in Free Space
141
14 SemiInfinite Dielectric
147
15 Application of Greens Function
157
16 Bessel Functions
165
17 Parallel Conducting Plates
177
18 Modified Bessel Functions
193
19 Cylindrical Conductors
205
20 Spherical Harmonics
231
21 Coulombs Potential
243
22 Multipoles
257
23 Conducting and Dielectric Spheres
265
24 Dielectrics and COnductors
283
25 Modes and Variations
295
26 Magnetostatics
313
27 Macroscopic Current Distributions
319
28 Magnetic Multipoles
325
37 Constant Acceleration and Impulsive Scattering
391
38 Synchrotron Radiation I
401
39 Synchrotron Radiation IIPolarization
413
40 Syncrotron Radiation IIIHigh Energies
417
41 Propagation in a Dielectric Medium
427
42 Reflection by an Imperfect Conductor
445
43 Cylindrical Coordinates
449
44 Waveguides
459
45 Scattering by Small Obstacles
471
46 PartialWave Analysis of Scattering
479
47 Diffraction I
491
48 Diffraction II
509
Babinets Principle
523
50 General Scattering
527
51 Dispersion Relations for the Susceptibility
539
52 Charged Particle Energy Loss
545
Appendix A Units
555
Appendix B Bibliography
561
Index
563
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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 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.

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