The aim has been to write a book that can serve both as an advanced text in Classical Electrodynamics and as a preparation for studies in Quantum Electrodynamics and related subjects.
It provides a thorough treatment of the theory of electrodynamics, mainly from a classical field theoretical point of view, and includes such things as formal electrostatics and magnetostatics and their unification into electrodynamics, the electromagnetic potentials, gauge transformations, covariant formulation of classical electrodynamics, force, momentum and energy of the electromagnetic field, radiation and scattering phenomena, electromagnetic waves and their propagation in vacuum and in media, and covariant Lagrangian/Hamiltonian field theoretical methods for electromagnetic fields, particles and interactions. Intended primarily as a textbook for physics students at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level, it is hoped that the present book may be useful for research workers too. Preface The current book is an outgrowth of the lecture notes that I prepared for the four-credit course Electrodynamics that was introduced in the Uppsala University curriculum in 1992, to become the five-credit course Classical Electrodynamics in To some extent, parts of these notes were based on lecture notes prepared, in Swedish, by BENGT LUNDBORG who created, developed and taught the earlier, two-credit course Electromagnetic Radiation at our faculty. Electromagnetic Field Theory ISBN X-XXX-XXXXX-Xħ Downloaded from Version released 20th January 2004 at 23:34. 1 Electromagnetic Field Theory BO THIDÉ Υ UPSILON BOOKSĥ Electromagnetic Field Theory BO THIDÉ Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Department of Astronomy and Space Physics Uppsala University, Sweden and School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering Växjö University, Sweden Υ UPSILON BOOKS COMMUNA AB UPPSALA SWEDENĦ Also available ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY EXERCISES by Tobia Carozzi, Anders Eriksson, Bengt Lundborg, Bo Thidé and Mattias Waldenvik Freely downloadable from This book was typeset in L A TEX 2ε (based on TEX and Web2C 7.4.2) on an HP Visualize workstation running HP-UX Copyright c 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 20 by Bo Thidé Uppsala, Sweden All rights reserved.
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