Electrodynamics of Continuous Media
L. D. Landau, J. S. Bell, M. J. Kearsley (Translator)
Covers the theory of electromagnetic fields in matter, and the theory of the macroscopic electric and magnetic properties of matter. There is a considerable amount of new material particularly on the theory of the magnetic properties of matter and the theory of optical phenomena with new chapters on spatial dispersion and non-linear optics. The chapters on ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism and on magnetohydrodynamics have been substantially enlarged and eight other chapters have additional sections
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Electrodynamics of Continuous Media
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Table of Contents
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
PREFACE TO THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
NOTATION
CHAPTER I. ELECTROSTATICS OF CONDUCTORS
1. The electrostatic field of conductors
2. The energy of the electrostatic field of conductors
3. Methods of solving problems in electrostatics
4. A conducting ellipsoid
5. The forces on a conductor
PROBLEMS
CHAPTER II. ELECTROSTATICS OF DIELECTRICS
6. The electric field in dielectrics
7. The permittivity
8. A dielectric ellipsoid. 9. The permittivity of a mixture
10. Thermodynamic relations for dielectrics in an electric field
12. Electrostriction of isotropic dielectrics
13. Dielectric properties of crystals
14. The sign of the dielectric susceptibility
15. Electric forces in a fluid dielectric
16. Electric forces in solids
17. Piezoelectrics
18. Thermodynamic inequalities
19. Ferroelectrics
20. Improper ferroelectrics
CHAPTER III. STEADY CURRENT
21. The current density and the conductivity
22. The Hall effect
23. The contact potential
24. The galvanic cell. 25. Electrocapillarity
26. Thermoelectric phenomena
27. Thermogalvanomagnetic phenomena
28. Diffusion phenomena
CHAPTER IV. STATIC MAGNETIC FIELD
29. Static magnetic field
30. The magnetic field of a steady current
31. Thermodynamic relations in a magnetic field
32. The total free energy of a magnetic substance
33. The energy of a system of currents
34. The self-inductance of linear conductors
35. Forces in a magnetic field
36. Gyromagnetic phenomena
CHAPTER V. FERROMAGNETISM AND ANTIFERROMAGNETISM
37. Magnetic symmetry of crystals. 38. Magnetic classes and space groups
39. Ferromagnets near the Curie point
40. The magnetic anisotropy energy
41. The magnetization curve of ferromagnets
42. Magnetostriction of ferromagnets
43. Surface tension of a domain wall
44. The domain structure of ferromagnets
45. Single-domain particles
46. Orientational transitions
47. Fluctuations in ferromagnets
48. Antiferromagnets near the Curie point
49. The bicritical point for an antiferromagnet
50. Weak ferromagnetism
51. Piezomagnetism and the magnetoelectric effect. 52. Helicoidal magnetic structures
CHAPTER VI. SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
53. The magnetic properties of superconductors
54. The superconductivity current
55. The critical field
56. The intermediate state
57. Structure of the intermediate state
CHAPTER VII. QUASI-STATIC ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD
58. Equations of the quasi-static field
59. Depth of penetration of a magnetic field into a conductor
60. The skin effect
61. The complex resistance
62. Capacitance in a quasi-steady current circuit
63. Motion of a conductor in a magnetic field
64. Excitation of currents by acceleration