An Introduction to Classical Electrodynamics

An Introduction to Classical Electrodynamics

An Introduction to Classical Electrodynamics covers the topics of Electricity, Magnetism, and Optics at the upper-level undergraduate level in physics or electrical engineering.  This book tells the story of the historical development of electrodynamics, at the same time as introducing students to electrodynamics with vector calculus.

This is the best treatment of the historical development of electricity, magnetism and electrodynamics I have ever seen. The breadth of the authors’ knowledge, together with their ability to summarize historical results in exceptionally clear terms, is wonderful. Developing electromagnetism historically makes many concepts easier to understand .
---  By an anonymous reviewer who is a senior professor at a major college or university.

Table of Contents

• Part I:  Electricity
  Chapter 1    Charge
  Chapter 2    The Electrostatic Force
  Chapter 3    Electrical Potential Energy
  Chapter 4    Gauss’s Law    
  Chapter 5    The Equations of Laplace and Poisson
• PART II:  Magnetism  
  Chapter 6    Permanent Magnets
  Chapter 7    The Vector Potential and the Curl
  Chapter 8    Electromagnetism
  Chapter 9    Faraday’s Law of Induction
  Chapter 10    The Electron   
  Chapter 11    Galilean Relativity in Electrodynamics
  Chapter 12    Superconductors and Plasmas   
• Part III:  Light
  Chapter 13    Transmission Lines
  Chapter 14    Light in an Optical Medium
  Chapter 15    Light in Free Space
  Chapter 16    Sources of Electromagnetic Radiation
  Chapter 17    Special Relativity
  Chapter 18    The Photon

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ISBN:  978-1-949942-00-2
728 pages, 650 illustrations, $30
 

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