From Electrostatics to Optics: A Concise Electrodynamics Course (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics) - Hardcover

Scharf, Günter

 
9783540576822: From Electrostatics to Optics: A Concise Electrodynamics Course (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3540576827 ISBN 13: 9783540576822
Publisher: Springer, 1994

Synopsis

After a historical introduction and mathematical preliminaries the book turns to electrostatics in vacuum, whereby Maxwells equations are not postulated as axioms, but deduced from electrostatics plus Lorentz invariance. These general ideas are then illustrated by many applications, radiation phenomena in particular. Chapter 4 is devoted to the completely different subject of phenomenological electrodynamics of matter, with the equations derived by spatial averaging, assuming a classical model for the atomic structure of matter. The chapter on optics is not treated as an independent field, but rather an application of Chapter 4, where significant themes such as wave optics, light scattering, geometrical optics, diffraction theory, and the laser are discussed. Finally, an epilogue relates the classical theory to modern quantum electrodynamics.

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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3540576827
ISBN 13 
9783540576822
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
255

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