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

Scharf, Günter

 
9783642850899: From Electrostatics to Optics: A Concise Electrodynamics Course (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics)

Sinopsis

This textbook on classical electrodynamics differs from the existing literature by its rigorous derivation of Maxwell's theory from electrostatics and the Lorentz transformations of special relativity. It treats, among others, topics such as phenomenology, radiation, and modern optics in detail. It addresses students of theoretical physics.

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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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9783540576822: From Electrostatics to Optics: A Concise Electrodynamics Course (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics)

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ISBN 10:  3540576827 ISBN 13:  9783540576822
Editorial: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heide..., 1994
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