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.


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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