Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Units, constants, and formulae
- Glossary of symbols
- Mathematical prologue
- 1 Charges and currents
- 2 Electrostatics
- 3 Electric dipoles
- 4 Static magnetic fields
- 5 Time-dependent fields: Faraday's law and Maxwell's equations
- 6 Electromagnetic waves in a vacuum
- 7 The electrostatics of conductors
- 8 Steady currents in conductors
- 9 Magnetostatics
- 10 Insulators
- 11 Magnetic properties of materials
- 12 Time-dependent fields in insulators
- 13 Time-dependent fields in metals and plasmas
- 14 Superconductors
- 15 Surface electricity
- 16 Radiation
- 17 Applications of radiation theory
- 18 Transmission lines, wave guides, and optical fibres
- 19 The electromagnetic field and special relativity
- Appendix A Proof of Gauss's theorem
- Appendix B The uniqueness theorem
- Appendix C Fields at the interface between materials
- Appendix D Gaussian c.g.s. units
- Further reading
- Answers to problems
- Index
Glossary of symbols
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Units, constants, and formulae
- Glossary of symbols
- Mathematical prologue
- 1 Charges and currents
- 2 Electrostatics
- 3 Electric dipoles
- 4 Static magnetic fields
- 5 Time-dependent fields: Faraday's law and Maxwell's equations
- 6 Electromagnetic waves in a vacuum
- 7 The electrostatics of conductors
- 8 Steady currents in conductors
- 9 Magnetostatics
- 10 Insulators
- 11 Magnetic properties of materials
- 12 Time-dependent fields in insulators
- 13 Time-dependent fields in metals and plasmas
- 14 Superconductors
- 15 Surface electricity
- 16 Radiation
- 17 Applications of radiation theory
- 18 Transmission lines, wave guides, and optical fibres
- 19 The electromagnetic field and special relativity
- Appendix A Proof of Gauss's theorem
- Appendix B The uniqueness theorem
- Appendix C Fields at the interface between materials
- Appendix D Gaussian c.g.s. units
- Further reading
- Answers to problems
- Index
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- Electricity and Magnetism , pp. xvi - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991