Electromagnetic Radiation: Variational Methods, Waveguides and Accelerators: Including Seminal Papers of Julian Schwinger (Particle Acceleration and Detection) - Hardcover

Milton, Kimball A.; Schwinger, Julian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540292233 ISBN 13: 9783540292234

Publisher: Springer, 2006

Synopsis

Julian Schwinger was already the world’s leading nuclear theorist when he joined the Radiation Laboratory at MIT in 1943, at the ripe age of 25. Just 2 years earlier he had joined the faculty at Purdue, after a postdoc with OppenheimerinBerkeley,andgraduatestudyatColumbia. Anearlysemester at Wisconsin had con?rmed his penchant to work at night, so as not to have to interact with Breit and Wigner there. He was to perfect his iconoclastic 1 habits in his more than 2 years at the Rad Lab. Despite its deliberately misleading name, the Rad Lab was not involved in nuclear physics, which was imagined then by the educated public as a esoteric science without possible military application. Rather, the subject at hand was the perfection of radar, the beaming and re?ection of microwaves which had already saved Britain from the German onslaught. Here was a technology which won the war, rather than one that prematurely ended it, at a still incalculable cost. It was partly for that reason that Schwinger joined this e?ort, rather than what might have appeared to be the more natural project for his awesome talents, the development of nuclear weapons at Los Alamos. He had got a bit of a taste of that at the “Metallurgical Laboratory” in Chicago, and did not much like it. Perhaps more important for his decision to go to and stay at MIT during the war was its less regimented and isolated environment.

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From the Back Cover

The present volume comprehensively summarizes the late Julian Schwinger's work on the theory of electromagnetic radiation and its application to waveguides, transmission lines, accelerator physics and synchrotron radiation. The first part, written in textbook style, has
grown out of lectures and manuscripts by Julian Schwinger prepared during the war at MIT's Radiation Laboratory, updated with material developed by Schwinger at UCLA in the 1970s and 1980s, and by Milton at the University of Oklahoma since 1994.  The second part consists of reprints of more than 15 papers (some of them never published or available with very limited circulation) by Schwinger on these topics. This volume will be of great interest to physicists, electrical engineers and applied mathematicians
whether they be students or seasoned professionals. A paperback study edition of the first part is available separately.

Reviews

本書は、故ジュリアン・シュウィンガー博士による電磁放射の理論ならびにその導波管、送電線、加速器物理学およびシンクロトロン放射への応用に関する研究を包括的にまとめている.
教科書の体裁で書かれた第1部は、第二次世界大戦中にMITの放射線研究室においてシュウィンガーによって準備された講義と原稿をもとに、1970年代と1980年代のUCLAにおいてシュウィンガーによって展開された題材と1994年以降オクラホマ大学においてミルトンによって展開された題材で改訂してある.
第2部は、これらのトピックスに関するシュウィンガーによる15編の論文(うち何編かは初出または非常に限られた発行部数であった)のリプリントからなる.本書は、学生・ベテランの専門家を問わず、物理学者、電気エンジニア、応用数学者にとって非常に興味深いものとなるであろう.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 3540292233
• ISBN 13: 9783540292234
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 607