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Covariant Electrodynamics : A Concise Guide /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Charap, John M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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500 |a "This book is based on a 30-hour lecture course given for students in the fourth year of the intecollegiate MSci degree at the University of London."--P. ix. 
505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mathematical Preliminaries -- 2.1 A Reminder of Vector Calculus -- 2.2 Special Relativity -- 2.3 Four-Vectors -- 2.4 Covariant and Contravariant Vectors -- 2.5 Tensors -- 2.6 Time Dilation and the Lorentz-FitzGerald Contraction -- 2.7 The Four-Velocity -- 2.8 Energy and Momentum -- 2.9 Plane Waves -- 2.10 Exercises for Chapter 2 -- 3 Maxwell's Equations -- 3.1 Our Starting Point -- 3.2 The Experimental Background -- 3.2.1 Coulomb's Law -- 3.2.2 Absence of Magnetic Monopoles -- 3.2.3 Orsted and Amp`ere -- 3.2.4 The Law of Biot and Savart 
505 0 |a 3.2.5 The Displacement Current -- 3.2.6 Faraday's Law of Induction -- 3.2.7 The Lorentz Force -- 3.3 Capacitors and Solenoids -- 3.3.1 Energy -- 3.4 Electromagnetic Waves -- 3.4.1 Polarization -- 3.4.2 Electromagnetism and Light -- 3.5 Exercises for Chapter 3 -- 4 Behavior under Lorentz Transformations -- 4.1 The Charge-Current Density Four-Vector -- 4.2 The Lorentz Force -- 4.3 The Potential Four-Vector -- 4.4 Gauge Transformations -- 4.5 The Field-Strength Tensor -- 4.6 The Dual Field-Strength Tensor -- 4.7 Exercises for Chapter 4 -- 5 Lagrangian and Hamiltonian -- 5.1 Lagrange's Equations 
505 0 |a 5.2 The Lagrangian for a Charged Particle -- 5.3 The Hamiltonian for a Charged Particle -- 5.4 The Lagrangian for the Electromagnetic Field -- 5.5 The Hamiltonian for the Electromagnetic Field -- 5.6 Noether's Theorem -- 5.7 Exercises for Chapter 5 -- 6 Stress, Energy, and Momentum -- 6.1 The Canonical Stress Tensor -- 6.2 The Symmetrical Stress Tensor -- 6.3 The Conservation Laws with Sources -- 6.4 The Field as an Ensemble of Oscillators -- 6.5 Exercises for Chapter 6 -- 7 Motion of a Charged Particle -- 7.1 Fields from an Unaccelerated Particle -- 7.2 Motion of a Particle in an External Field 
505 0 |a 7.2.1 Uniform Static Magnetic Field -- 7.2.2 Crossed E and B Fields -- 7.2.3 Nonuniform Static B-Field -- 7.2.4 Curved Magnetic Field Lines -- 7.3 Exercises for Chapter 7 -- 8 Fields from Sources -- 8.1 Introducing the Green's Function -- 8.2 The Delta Function -- 8.3 The Green's Function -- 8.4 The Covariant Form for the Green's Function -- 8.5 Exercises for Chapter 8 -- 9 Radiation -- 9.1 Potentials from a Moving Charged Particle -- 9.2 The Lienard-Wiechert Potentials -- 9.2.1 Fields from an Unaccelerated Particle -- 9.2.2 Fields from a Charged Oscillator -- 9.3 The General Case 
505 0 |a 9.4 The Multipole Expansion -- 9.4.1 Electric Dipole Radiation -- 9.4.2 Magnetic Dipole and Higher-Order Terms -- 9.5 Motion in a Circle -- 9.6 Radiation from Linear Accelerators -- 9.7 Radiation from an Antenna -- 9.8 Exercises for Chapter 9 -- 10 Media -- 10.1 Dispersion -- 10.1.1 Newton on the "Phaenomena of Colours" -- 10.2 Refraction -- 10.2.1 The Boundary Conditions at the Interface -- 10.3 Čerenkov Radiation -- 10.4 Exercises for Chapter 10 -- 11 Scattering -- 11.1 Scattering from a Small Scatterer -- 11.2 Many Scatterers -- 11.3 Scattering from the Sky -- 11.3.1 The Born Approximation 
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