Professor Dobbs provides an elegant and clear account of the subject, leading the student from electrostatics through to Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves, covering all the material needed by a student taking courses on electricity and magnetism and electromagnetic waves.
Professor Dobbs provides an elegant and clear account of the subject, leading the student from electrostatics through to Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves, covering all the material needed by a student taking courses on electricity and magnetism and electromagnetic waves.
1 Introduction.- 2 Electrostatics.- 2.1 Coulomb's law.- 2.2 Gauss's law.- 2.3 Electric potential.- 2.4 Electrostatic energy.- 2.5 Dielectrics.- 3 Electric potential and fields.- 3.1 Poisson's and Laplace's equations.- 3.2 Solutions of Laplace's equation.- 3.3 Electrical images.- 3.4 Electron optics.- 4 Magnetostatics.- 4.1 Electric current.- 4.2 Lorentz force.- 4.3 Biot-Savart law.- 4.4 Forces between currents.- 4.5 Ampère's law and magnetic flux.- 5 Electromagnetism.- 5.1 Faraday's law.- 5.2 Applications of Faraday's law.- 6 Magnetism.- 6.1 Magnetization of matter.- 6.2 Characteristics of B and H.- 6.3 Magnetism in matter.- 6.4 Production of magnetic fields.- 7 Maxwell's equations.- 7.1 Gauss's and Faraday's laws.- 7.2 Ampère's and Maxwell's laws.- 7.3 Statics and dynamics.- 7.4 Free space and matter.- 8 Electromagnetism and relativity.- 8.1 Lorentz transformations.- 8.2 Fields of moving charges.- 8.3 Vector potentials.- 8.4 Energy of electromagnetic field.- 8.5 Retarded potentials.- 9 Electromagnetic waves in space.- 9.1 Wave equations.- 9.2 Plane waves.- 9.3 Spherical waves.- 9.4 Energy density and energy flow.- 10 Electromagnetic waves in dielectrics.- 10.1 Polarization of dielectrics.- 10.2 Wave parameters in dielectrics.- 10.3 Absorption and dispersion.- 11 Reflection and refraction.- 11.1 Boundary relations.- 11.2 Fresnel's equations.- 11.3 Energy flow at a boundary.- 11.4 Total internal reflection.- 12 Electromagnetic waves in conductors.- 12.1 Wave parameters in conductors.- 12.2 Wave impedance and reflectance.- 12.3 Energy flow and radiation pressure.- 12.4 Plasmas.- 13 Generation of electromagnetic waves.- 13.1 Hertzian dipole.- 13.2 Radiant energy and power.- 13.3 Antennas.- 13.4 Scattering.- 14 Guided waves.- 14.1 Waveguideequation.- 14.2 Rectangular waveguides.- 14.3 Waveguide modes.- 14.4 Cavities.- Further reading.- Appendix A Electromagnetic quantities.- Appendix B Gaussian units.- Appendix C Physical constants.- Appendix D Electromagnetic spectrum.- Appendix E Vector calculus.- Appendix F Lorentz transformations.- Appendix G Exercises.- Appendix H Answers to exercises.
1 Introduction.- 2 Electrostatics.- 2.1 Coulomb's law.- 2.2 Gauss's law.- 2.3 Electric potential.- 2.4 Electrostatic energy.- 2.5 Dielectrics.- 3 Electric potential and fields.- 3.1 Poisson's and Laplace's equations.- 3.2 Solutions of Laplace's equation.- 3.3 Electrical images.- 3.4 Electron optics.- 4 Magnetostatics.- 4.1 Electric current.- 4.2 Lorentz force.- 4.3 Biot-Savart law.- 4.4 Forces between currents.- 4.5 Ampère's law and magnetic flux.- 5 Electromagnetism.- 5.1 Faraday's law.- 5.2 Applications of Faraday's law.- 6 Magnetism.- 6.1 Magnetization of matter.- 6.2 Characteristics of B and H.- 6.3 Magnetism in matter.- 6.4 Production of magnetic fields.- 7 Maxwell's equations.- 7.1 Gauss's and Faraday's laws.- 7.2 Ampère's and Maxwell's laws.- 7.3 Statics and dynamics.- 7.4 Free space and matter.- 8 Electromagnetism and relativity.- 8.1 Lorentz transformations.- 8.2 Fields of moving charges.- 8.3 Vector potentials.- 8.4 Energy of electromagnetic field.- 8.5 Retarded potentials.- 9 Electromagnetic waves in space.- 9.1 Wave equations.- 9.2 Plane waves.- 9.3 Spherical waves.- 9.4 Energy density and energy flow.- 10 Electromagnetic waves in dielectrics.- 10.1 Polarization of dielectrics.- 10.2 Wave parameters in dielectrics.- 10.3 Absorption and dispersion.- 11 Reflection and refraction.- 11.1 Boundary relations.- 11.2 Fresnel's equations.- 11.3 Energy flow at a boundary.- 11.4 Total internal reflection.- 12 Electromagnetic waves in conductors.- 12.1 Wave parameters in conductors.- 12.2 Wave impedance and reflectance.- 12.3 Energy flow and radiation pressure.- 12.4 Plasmas.- 13 Generation of electromagnetic waves.- 13.1 Hertzian dipole.- 13.2 Radiant energy and power.- 13.3 Antennas.- 13.4 Scattering.- 14 Guided waves.- 14.1 Waveguideequation.- 14.2 Rectangular waveguides.- 14.3 Waveguide modes.- 14.4 Cavities.- Further reading.- Appendix A Electromagnetic quantities.- Appendix B Gaussian units.- Appendix C Physical constants.- Appendix D Electromagnetic spectrum.- Appendix E Vector calculus.- Appendix F Lorentz transformations.- Appendix G Exercises.- Appendix H Answers to exercises.
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...I have warmly recommended Dobbs' previous texts..Basic Electromagnetism may similarly be recommended. - Contemporary Physics
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