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ISBN13:9780198899686
ISBN10:0198899688
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:640 pages
Size:245x173x31 mm
Weight:1226 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 116 illustrations
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Electromagnetic Radiation

 
Publisher: OUP Oxford
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Short description:

This graduate level textbook aims to teach fundamental ideas of advanced classical electrodynamics, with an emphasis on the physics of radiation. The text describes concepts with the minimum required mathematical detail, while the accompanying side notes and end of chapter discussions provide the detailed derivations.

Long description:
Electromagnetic Radiation is a graduate level book on classical electrodynamics with a strong emphasis on radiation. This book is meant to quickly and efficiently introduce students to the electromagnetic radiation science essential to a practicing physicist. While a major focus is on light and its interactions, topics in radio frequency radiation, x-rays, and beyond are also treated. Special emphasis is placed on applications, with many exercises and problems. The format of the book is designed to convey the basic concepts in a mathematically rigorous manner, but with detailed derivations routinely relegated to the accompanying side notes or end of chapter "Discussions".

The book is composed of four parts: Part I is a review of basic E&M (electricity and magnetism), and presents a concise review of topics covered in the subject. Part II addresses the origins of radiation in terms of time variations of charge and current densities within the source, and presents Jefimenko's field equations as derived from retarded potentials. Part III introduces special relativity and its deep connection to Maxwell's equations, together with an introduction to relativistic field theory, as well as the relativistic treatment of radiation from an arbitrarily accelerating charge. A highlight of this part is a chapter on the still partially unresolved problem of radiation reaction on an accelerating charge. Part IV treats the practical problems of electromagnetic radiation interacting with matter, with chapters on energy transport, scattering, diffraction and finally an illuminating, application-oriented treatment of fields in confined environments.

Electromagnetic Radiation, a new graduate-level text on classical electrodynamics, offers instructors a wonderful alternative to the classic texts that have dominated the teaching of classical electrodynamics for decades.
Table of Contents:
Essentials of Electricity and Magnetism
The Potentials
General Relations between Fields and Sources
Fields in terms of the Multiple Moments of the Source
Introduction to Special Relativity
Radiation from Charges Moving at Relativistic Velocities
Relativistic Electrodynamics
Field Reactions to Moving Charges
Properties of Electromagnetic Radiation in Materials
Models of Electromagnetic Response of Materials
Scattering of Electromagnetic Radiation in Materials
Diffraction and the Propagation of Light
Radiation Fields in Constrained Environments