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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Physical Basis of Maxwell's Equations | |
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| Maxwell's Equations in Matter | |
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| The Mathematical Structure of Electrodynamics | |
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| Electrostatic Phenomena | |
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| Magnetostatic Phenomena | |
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| Wave Phenomena | |
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| The General Case | |
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| The Mathematical Apparatus | |
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| Time-Independent Fields | |
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| Electrostatics | |
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| Method 1: Guesses and Symmetries | |
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| Method 2: The Green Function | |
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| Expansions with Orthonormal Functions | |
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| Magnetostatics | |
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| Method 1: The Magnetic Scalar Potential | |
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| Method 2: The Magnetic Vector Potential | |
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| Method 3: Hard Ferromagnets | |
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| General Properties of Maxwell's Equations | |
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| Time-Varying Fields | |
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| The Time-Dependent Green Function | |
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| Conservation Laws | |
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| Field Energy Density and Poynting's Theorem | |
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| Conservation of Linear Momentum | |
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| The Maxwell Stress Tensor | |
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| Conservation of Angular Momentum | |
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| Electromagnetic Waves and Radiation | |
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| Electromagnetic Waves | |
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| Polarization and Stokes Parameters | |
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| Reflection and Refraction | |
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| Time Harmonic Fields in Matter | |
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| Wave Guides | |
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| Radiation | |
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| Point Currents and Lienard-Wiechert Potentials | |
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| The Radiation Fields | |
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| Simple Radiating Systems | |
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| A Need For The Special Theory of Relativity | |
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| Basic Principles and Transformations | |
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| Mathematical Structure of Four-Dimensional Spacetime | |
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| Lorentz Transformation Properties of Physical Quantities | |
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| Lorentz Transformation of Macroscopic Electrodynamics | |
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| Stress-Energy Momentum Tensor and Conservation Laws | |
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| The Lagrangian Formulation Of Electrodynamics | |
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| Action Principles in Classical Field Theories | |
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| Relativistic Lagrangians of Point-Charge Motions | |
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| The Field Lagrangian | |
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| Invariances and Conservation Laws (Noether's Theorem) | |
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| Relativistic Treatment Of Radiation | |
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| The Green Function in Four-Dimensional Spacetime | |
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| Lienard-Wiechert Potentials and Fields for a Point Charge | |
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| Angular Distribution of the Emitted Radiation | |
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| Bremsstrahlung Radiation | |
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| Radiative Motions of a Point Charge | |
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| Radiation Damping and the Relativistic Lorentz-Dirac Equation | |
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| Special Topics | |
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| Time-Independent Multipole Fields | |
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| Multipole Expansion of Time-Dependent Fields | |
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| Collisions between Charged Particles | |
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| Magnetohydrodynamics | |
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| Alfven Waves and Particle Acceleration | |
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| Synchrotron Emission | |
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| Echoes of the Big Bang | |
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| Cosmic Superluminal Sources | |
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| Polarized Radiation from the Black Hole at the Galactic Center | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |