Foundations of Classical and Quantum Electrodynamics

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Main Author: Toptygin, Igor N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Fundamental Constants and Frequently Used Numbers -- Basic Notation -- 1 The Mathematical Methods of Electrodynamics -- 1.1 Vector and Tensor Algebra -- 1.1.1 The Definition of a Tensor and Tensor Operations -- 1.1.2 The Principal Values and Invariants of a Symmetric Tensor of Rank 2 -- 1.1.3 Covariant and Contravariant Components -- 1.1.4 Tensors in Curvilinear and Nonorthogonal Systems of Coordinates -- 1.2 Vector and Tensor Calculus -- 1.2.1 Gradient and Directional Derivative. Vector Lines -- 1.2.2 Divergence and Curl. Integral Theorems 
505 8 |a 1.2.3 Solenoidal and Potential (Curl-less) Vectors -- 1.2.4 Differential Operations of Second Order -- 1.2.5 Differentiating in Curvilinear Coordinates -- 1.2.6 Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinates -- 1.3 The Special Functions of Mathematical Physics -- 1.3.1 Cylindrical Functions -- 1.3.2 Spherical Functions and Legendre Polynomials -- 1.3.3 Dirac Delta Function -- 1.3.4 Certain Representations of the Delta Function -- 1.3.5 The Representation of the Delta Function through Loop Integrals in a Complex Plane 
505 8 |a 1.3.6 Expansion in Total Systems of Orthogonal and Normalized Functions. General Considerations -- 1.3.7 Fourier Series -- 1.3.8 Fourier Integral -- 1.4 Answers and Solutions -- 2 Basic Concepts of Electrodynamics: The Maxwell Equations -- 2.1 Electrostatics -- 2.1.1 The Coulomb Law -- 2.1.2 Electric Field -- 2.1.3 Energy and Forces in Electrostatic Fields -- 2.2 Magnetostatics -- 2.2.1 Current Density and the Magnetic Field. Biot-Savart Law -- 2.2.2 Lorentz Force and Ampère's Formula -- 2.2.3 Conservation of Electric Charge and the Continuity Equation 
505 8 |a 2.2.4 Equations of Magnetostatics. Vector Potential -- 2.2.5 Energy and Forces in Magnetostatic Fields -- 2.3 Maxwell's Equations. Free Electromagnetic Field -- 2.3.1 The Law of Electromagnetic Induction -- 2.3.2 The Systems of Measurement Units of Electric and Magnetic Values -- 2.3.3 An Analysis of the System of Maxwell's Equations -- 2.3.4 Free Electromagnetic Field -- 2.3.5 The Partial Polarization of Waves -- 2.3.6 Analytical Signal -- 2.3.7 The Hamiltonian Form of Equations for a Free Electromagnetic Field -- 2.4 Answers and Solutions 
505 8 |a 3 The Special Theory of Relativity and Relativistic Kinematics -- 3.1 The Principle of Relativity and Lorentz Transformations -- 3.1.1 Properties of Space-Time and Intervals -- 3.1.2 Lorentz Transformations -- 3.1.3 Pseudo-Euclidean Geometry -- 3.2 Kinematics of Relativistic Particles -- 3.2.1 Energy and Momentum -- 3.2.2 Kinematic Problems -- 3.3 Answers and Solutions -- 4 Fundamentals of Relativistic Mechanics and Field Theory -- 4.1 Four-Dimensional Vectors and Tensors -- 4.1.1 Transformations of Tensors -- 4.1.2 Dual Tensors 
500 |a 4.2 The Motion of Charged Particles in Electromagnetic Fields. Transformation of the Electric Field 
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