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Classical Electricity and Magnetism: Second Edition
by Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky,Melba Phillips

ISBN: 0486439240
Dover Publications Price: $29.95
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Compact and precise, this text offers advanced undergraduates and graduate students a diverse selection of topics: the electrostatic field in vacuum; general methods for the solution of potential problems; radiation reaction and covariant formulation of the conservation laws of electrodynamics; and numerous other subjects. 119 figures. 10 tables. 1962 edition.
Unabridged republication of the second edition, originally published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, 1962.

Table of Contents for Classical Electricity and Magnetism: Second Edition
Prefaces
1. The Electrostatic Field in Vacuum
2. Boundary Conditions and Relation of Microscopic to Macroscopic Fields
3. General Methods for the Solution of Potential Problems
4. Two-Dimensional Potential Problems
5. Three-Dimensional Potential Problems
6. Energy Relations and Forces in the Electrostatic Field
7. Steady Currents and Their Interaction
8. Magnetical Materials and Boundary Value Problems
9. Maxwell’s Equations
10. Energy, Force, and Momentum Relations in the Electromagnetic Field
11. The Wave Equation and Plane Waves
12. Conducting Fluids in a Magnetic Field (Magnetohydrodynamics)
13. Waves in the Presence of Metallic Boundaries
14. The Inhomogeneous Wave Equation
15. The Experimental Basis for the Theory of Special Relativity
16. Relativistic Kinematics and the Lorentz Transformation
17. Covariance and Relativistic Mechanics
18. Covariant Formulation of Electrodynamics
19. The Liénard-Wiechert Potentials and the Field of a Uniformly Moving Electron
20. Radiation from an Accelerated Charge
21. Radiation Reaction and Covariant Formulation of the Conservation Laws of Electrodynamics
22. Radiation, Scattering, and Dispersion
23. The Motion of Charged Particles in Electromagnetic Fields
24. Hamiltonian Formulation of Maxwell’s Equations
Appendixes
Bibliography
Index

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