Classical Electrodynamics A Modern Perspective /

• Main Author: Lechner, Kurt (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: UNITEXT for Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Classical Electrodynamics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.

This book addresses the theoretical foundations and the main physical consequences of electromagnetic interaction, generally considered to be one of the four fundamental interactions in nature, in a mathematically rigorous yet straightforward way. The major focus is on the unifying features shared b...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
• 1 Foundations of special relativity
• 2 Fundamental equations of electrodynamics
• 3 Variational methods in field theory
• 4 The variational principle in electrodynamics
• Part II: APPLICATIONS
• 5 Electromagnetic waves
• 6 Generation of electromagnetic fields
• 7 Lienard-Wiechert fields
• 8 Radiation
• 9 Gravitational radiation
• 10 Radiation in the ultrarelativistic limit
• 11 Spectral analysis
• 12 Synchrotron radiation
• 13 The Cerenkov effect
• Part III: SELECTED TOPICS
• 14 Radiation reaction
• 15 A distribution-valued energy-momentum tensor
• 16 Charged particles traveling at the speed of light
• 17 Massive vector fields
• 18 Electrodynamics of p-branes
• 19 Magnetic monopoles in classical electrodynamics
• 20 Magnetic monopoles in quantum mechanics
• References
• INDEX.