Electromagnetic Radiation: Variational Methods, Waveguides and Accelerators

• Main Authors: Milton, Kimball A. (Author), Schwinger, Julian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Subjects: Physics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Particle acceleration.; Electrical engineering.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Electrical Engineering.

This is a graduate level textbook on the theory of electromagnetic radiation and its application to waveguides, transmission lines, accelerator physics and synchrotron radiation. It has grown out of lectures and manuscripts by Julian Schwinger prepared during the war at MIT's Radiation Laborato...

Table of Contents:

• Maxwell’s Equations
• Spherical Harmonics
• Relativistic Transformations
• Variational Principles for Harmonic Time Dependence
• Transmission Lines
• Waveguides and Equivalent Transmission Lines
• Rectangular and Triangular Waveguides
• Electromagnetic Fields in Waveguides with Circular Cross Sections
• Reflection and Refraction
• Variational Methods
• Examples of Variational Calculations for Circular Guide
• Steady Currents and Dissipation
• The Impedance Concept in Waveguides
• Accelerators: Microtrons and Synchrotrons
• Synchrotron Radiation
• Diffraction
• Quantum Limitations on Microwave Oscillators.