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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.
Colección:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:	Electrodynamics. Électrodynamique. Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:	Texto completo

Tabla de Contenidos:

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
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
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
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
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

Covariant Electrodynamics : A Concise Guide /

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