Classical Electricty and Magnetism

Prefaces 1. The Electrostatic Field in Vacuum 2. Boundary Conditions and Relation of Microscopic to Macroscopic Fields 3. General Methods for the Solution of Potential Problems 4. Two-Dimensional Potential Problems 5. Three-Dimensional Potential Problems 6. Energy Relations and Forces in the Electrostatic Field 7. Steady Currents and Their Interaction 8. Magnetical Materials and Boundary Value Problems 9. Maxwell’s Equations 10. Energy, Force, and Momentum Relations in the Electromagnetic Field 11. The Wave Equation and Plane Waves 12. Conducting Fluids in a Magnetic Field (Magnetohydrodynamics) 13. Waves in the Presence of Metallic Boundaries 14. The Inhomogeneous Wave Equation 15. The Experimental Basis for the Theory of Special Relativity 16. Relativistic Kinematics and the Lorentz Transformation 17. Covariance and Relativistic Mechanics 18. Covariant Formulation of Electrodynamics 19. The Liénard-Wiechert Potentials and the Field of a Uniformly Moving Electron 20. Radiation from an Accelerated Charge 21. Radiation Reaction and Covariant Formulation of the Conservation Laws of Electrodynamics 22. Radiation, Scattering, and Dispersion 23. The Motion of Charged Particles in Electromagnetic Fields 24. Hamiltonian Formulation of Maxwell’s Equations Appendixes Bibliography Index