Solved Problems in Classical Electromagnetism

Classical electromagnetism - one of the fundamental pillars of physics - is an important topic for all types of physicists from the theoretical to the applied. Although there are many books on this subject, hardly any are written in the question-and-answer style format adopted in this book.

Autorentext

J. Pierrus has a background in experimental and computational physics. During the course of his career, he has published research in various areas including chemical physics, solid state physics, molecular optics and physics education. He has served as a reviewer for both the European and American Journals of Physics. As an experienced academic, he has developed teaching material in most areas of the core physics curriculum at the University of KwaZulu-Natal where he is a senior lecturer. He is a co-author of Solved problems in Classical Mechanics: Analytical and numerical solutions with comments, with this book being the second in that series.

Inhalt

• 1: Some essential mathematics

• 2: Static electric fields in vacuum

• 3: The electrostatics of conductors

• 4: Static magnetic fields in vacuum

• 5: Quasi-static electric and magnetic fields in vacuum

• 6: Ohm's law and electric circuits

• 7: Electromagnetic fields and waves in vacuum

• 8: The electromagnetic potentials

• 9: Static electric and magnetic fields in matter

• 10: Some applications of Maxwell's equations in matter

• 11: Electromagnetic radiation

• 12: Electromagnetism and special relativity

• Appendix A: Vectors and Cartesian tensors

• Appendix B: Cartesian coordinates

• Appendix C: Spherical polar coordinates

• Appendix D: Cylindrical polar coordinates

• Appendix E: The Dirac delta function

• Appendix F: Legendre polynomials

• Appendix G: Bessel functions

• Appendix H: Parametric representation of a surface

• Appendix I: The Cauchy-Riemann equations

• Appendix J: Questions involving computational work