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100 1  Melia, Fulvio. 
245 10 Electrodynamics /|cFulvio Melia. 
264  1 Chicago, Ill. :|bUniversity of Chicago Press,|c[2001] 
264  4 |c©2001 
300    x, 251 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Chicago lectures in physics 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-243) and 
       index. 
505 8  Machine generated contents note: PREFACE -- 1 INTRODUCTION
       -- 1.1 The Physical Basis of Maxwell's Equations -- 1.2 
       Maxwell's Equations in Matter -- 1.3 The Mathematical 
       Structure of Electrodynamics -- 1.3.1 Electrostatic 
       Phenomena -- 1.3.2 Magnetostatic Phenomena -- 1.3.3 Wave 
       Phenomena -- 1.3.4 The General Case -- 1.3.5 The 
       Mathematical Apparatus --2 TIME-INDEPENDENT FIELDS -- 2.1 
       Electrostatics -- 2.1.1 Method 1: Guesses and Symmetries -
       - 2.1.2 Method 2: The Green Function -- 2.1.3 Expansions 
       with Orthonormal Functions -- 2.2 Magnetostatics -- 2.2.1 
       Method 1: The Magnetic Scalar Potential -- 2.2.2 Method 2:
       The Magnetic Vector Potential -- 2.2.3 Method 3: Hard 
       Ferromagnets --3 GENERAL PROPERTIES OF MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS
       -- 3.1 Time-Varying Fields -- 3.2 The Time-Dependent Green
       Function -- 3.3 Conservation Laws -- 3.3.1 Field Energy 
       Density and Poynting's Theorem -- 3.3.2 Conservation of 
       Linear Momentum -- 3.3.3 The Maxwell Stress Tensor -- 
       3.3.4 Conservation of Angular Momentum --4 ELECTROMAGNETIC
       WAVES AND RADIATION -- 4.1 Electromagnetic Waves -- 4.2 
       Polarization and Stokes Parameters -- 4.3 Reflection and 
       Refraction -- 4.4 Time Harmonic Fields in Matter -- 4.5 
       Wave Guides -- 4.6 Radiation -- 4.6.1 Point Currents and 
       Li6nard-Wiechert Potentials -- 4.6.2 The Radiation Fields 
       -- 4.6.3 Simple Radiating Systems --5 A NEED FOR THE 
       SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY -- 5.1 Basic Principles and 
       Transformations -- 5.2 Mathematical Structure of Four-
       Dimensional Spacetime -- 5.3 Lorentz Transformation 
       Properties of Physical Quantities -- 5.4 Lorentz 
       Transformation of Macroscopic Electrodynamics -- 5.5 
       Stress-Energy Momentum Tensor and Conservation Laws --6 
       THE LAGRANGIAN FORMULATION OF ELECTRODYNAMICS -- 6.1 
       Action Principles in Classical Field Theories -- 6.2 
       Relativistic Lagrangians of Point-Charge Motions -- 6.3 
       The Field Lagrangian -- 6.4 Invariances and Conservation 
       Laws (Noether's Theorem) -- 7 RELATIVISTIC TREATMENT OF 
       RADIATION -- 7.1 The Green Function in Four-Dimensional 
       Spacetime -- 7.2 Li6nard-Wiechert Potentials and Fields 
       for a Point Charge -- 7.3 Angular Distribution of the 
       Emitted Radiation -- 7.4 Bremsstrahlung Radiation -- 7.5 
       Radiative Motions of a Point Charge -- 7.6 Radiation 
       Damping and the Relativistic Lorentz-Dirac -- Equation --8
       SPECIAL TOPICS -- 8.1 Time-Independent Multipole Fields --
       8.2 Multipole Expansion of Time-Dependent Fields -- 8.3 
       Collisions between Charged Particles -- 8.4 
       Magnetohydrodynamics -- 8.5 Alfv6n Waves and Particle 
       Acceleration -- 8.6 Synchrotron Emission -- 8.7 Echoes of 
       the Big Bang -- 8.8 Cosmic Superluminal Sources -- 8.9 
       Polarized Radiation from the Black Hole at the Galactic --
       Center. 
650  0 Electrodynamics. 
830  0 Chicago lectures in physics. 
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