From Electrostatics to Optics: A Concise Electrodynamics Course - Rilegato

Scharf, Gunter

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 3540576827 ISBN 13: 9783540576822

Casa editrice: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1994

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3540576827
• ISBN 13: 9783540576822
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 263
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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