Apart from an introductory chapter which focuses mainly on some important mathematical concepts and analytical techniques, this book consists entirely of questions and solutions on topics in classical electromagnetism.Apart from an introductory chapter which focuses mainly on some important mathematical c.The book will be useful to students and lecturers in undergraduate and graduate-level courses on classical electromagnetism and in computational physics.
Both analytical and numerical techniques are used to obtain and analyse solutions.
The solutions are usually followed by a set of comments intended to stimulate inductive reasoning and provide additional information of interest (including points of historical significance). A wide range of topics are treated which include: the basic experimental laws of electricity and magnetism, Maxwell's equations, electric and magnetic fields in vacuum and in matter, electromagnetic waves with applications to waveguides and antennas, the electromagnetic potentials, multipole expansions and multipole moments, gauge transformations, electric circuits, electromagnetic radiation, the electromagnetic field tensor and covariance. The questions are divided into three categories according to their 'level of difficulty', and the book should appeal to students who are at different stages in their respective degrees.
Newly revised by author Jerrold Franklin, the book includes the new section Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems.Apart from an introductory chapter which focuses mainly on some important mathematical c.
Topics include methods of solution in electrostatics, Green's functions, electrostatics in matter, magnetism and ferromagnetism, electromagnetic waves in matter, special relativity, and the electrodynamics of moving bodies. Each stage of the theory is carefully developed in a clear and systematic approach that integrates mathematics and physics so that readers are introduced to the theory and learn the mathematical skills incontext of real physics applications.
Progressing from the basic laws of electricity and magnetism and their unification by Maxwell and Einstein, the treatment culminates in a survey of the role of classical electromagnetism in a quantum world. Suitable for first-year graduate students in physics who have taken an undergraduate course in electromagnetism, it focuses on core concepts and related aspects of math and physics. This text advances from the basic laws of electricity and magnetism to classical electromagnetism in a quantum world.