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Table of Contents for Electrodynamics (Vol. 1 of Pauli Lectures on Physics)

Foreword by Victor F. Weisskopf
Preface by the Editor
Survey of the Historical Development and the Current Problems of Electrodynamics
1. Electrostatics and Magnetostatics
1. Coulomb's law
2. The field of point charges
3. Volume and surface charge distributions
4. Energy of the electrostatic field
5. Example: charge distributions with spherical symmetry
6. Proof of the equivalence of the electrostatic field equations with Coulomb's law
7. "Dielectrics, phenomenological treatment "
8. Electron theory interpretation of dielectric phenomena
9. The potential problem
10. Curvilinear coordinates
11. Examples of solutions of the potential problem
12. Magnetostatics
13. Units and dimensions
2. Steady-State Currents
14. Theory of steady-state currents
15. The magnetic fields of steady-state currents
16. The equivalence of the magnetic field due to closed current loops with that due to a distribution of magnetic dipoles
17. Ponderomotive forces
18. The principle of action and reaction for electric and magnetic forces. The Maxwell stress tensors
3. Quasi-Static Fields
19. Faraday's law of induction
20. The energy of current systems
21. Time-dependent current flow in circuits
22. The skin effect
23. The law of induction for moving conductors
4. Rapidly Varying Fields
24. The Maxwell equations
25. Electromagnetic waves in vacuum
26. Conservation of energy and momentum
27. Electromagnetic waves in material media
28. Radiation of electromagnetic waves
29. The field of a point charge in uniform motion
30. Radiation damping
Bibliography
Appendix. Comments by the Editor
Index

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