TY - BOOK AU - Panofsky, Wolfgang K.H. AU - Phillips, Melba. TI - Classical Electricity and Magnetism SN - 9780486447063 U1 - 530.141 PY - 1962/// CY - New York PB - Dover Publicatins KW - Phillips,Melba KW - Electricity KW - Electromagnetic theory KW - Relativity (Physics) KW - Electromagnetism N1 - The electrostatic field in vacuum -- Boundary conditions and relation of microscopic to macroscopic fields -- General methods for the solution of potential problems -- Two-dimensional potential problems -- Three-dimensional potential problems -- Energy relations and forces in the electrostatic field -- Steady currents and their interaction -- Magnetic materials and boundary value problems -- Maxwell's equations -- Energy, force, and momentum relations in the electromagnetic field -- The wave equation and plane waves -- Conducting fluids in a magnetic field (magnetohydrodynamics) -- Waves in the presence of metallic boundaries -- The inhomogeneous wave equation -- The experimental basis for the theory of special relativity -- Relativistic kinematics and the Lorentz transformation -- Covariance and relativistic mechanics -- Covariant formulation of electrodynamics -- The LiƩnard-Wiechert potentials and the field of a uniformly moving electron -- Radiation from an accelerated charge -- Radiation reaction and covariant formulation of the conservation laws of electrodynamics -- Radiation, scattering, and dispersion -- The motion of charged particles in electromagnetic fields -- Hamiltonian formulation of Maxwell's equations -- Appendix I. Units and dimensions in electromagnetic theory -- Appendix II. Useful vector relations -- Appendix III. Vector relations in curvilinear coordinates ER -