Intermediate electromagnetic theory (Q2710202)

This book is designed for physics majors or electrical engineering students in their junior or senior years, or first year graduate students. This volume is intended to bridge the gap between the usual undergraduate texts in electricity and magnetism and the texts which will be used at the graduate level. The text has been developed to provide students with more background for the applications of electricity and magnetism particularly in optics and topics related to research instrumentation.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe contents of the book consists of 13 chapters: 1. The mathematics of electricity and magnetism; 2. Electrostatics; 3. Boundary value problems: the solutions of Laplace's equation and Poisson's equation; 4. Current and conduction; 5. The magnetic field of steady currents; 6. The electric field in matter; 7. Magnetic fields in matter; 8. Time dependent fields. Faraday's law; 9. Maxwell's equations; 10. Applications of Maxwell's equations: The optics of plane waves; 11. Application of Maxwell's equations: Guided waves; 12. Applications of Maxwell's equations: Radiation; 13. Relativity.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe volume also contains seven appendices (1. Vector identities; 2. The Dirac function; 3. Bessel functions; 4. Legendre polynomials; 5. Elliptic integrals; 6. Units; 7. Fourier integrals: General solution to the inhomogeneous wave equation), an index and references.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe book treats the subject in a unitary manner giving the mathematical rigour necessary to describe the electromagnetic phenomena. The text includes a much more thorough discussion of the mathematics of electricity and magnetism than those found in current texts. Many examples illustrating the theory are contained in the text making the book useful for self-studying. Numerical results, diagrams and figures are presented. The numerous references may enable the reader either to complete his background or to find access to further leading literature. -- The book is a useful work.