Course of Theoretical Physics, Volume 8, Volume 8, Second Edition: Electrodynamics of Continuous Media - Softcover

Bell, J. S.; Kearsley, M. J.; Pitaevskii, L. P.; Landau, L D; Lifshitz, E.M.; Sykes, J. B.

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9780080302751: Course of Theoretical Physics, Volume 8, Volume 8, Second Edition: Electrodynamics of Continuous Media

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ISBN 10: 0080302750 ISBN 13: 9780080302751

Publisher: Pergamon, 1984

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Covers the theory of electromagnetic fields in matter, and the theory of the macroscopic electric and magnetic properties of matter. There is a considerable amount of new material particularly on the theory of the magnetic properties of matter and the theory of optical phenomena with new chapters on spatial dispersion and non-linear optics. The chapters on ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism and on magnetohydrodynamics have been substantially enlarged and eight other chapters have additional sections.

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