ABSTRACT

Classical Electrodynamics captures Schwinger's inimitable lecturing style, in which everything flows inexorably from what has gone before. This anniversary edition offers a refreshing update while still maintaining Schwinger’s voice.

The book provides the student with a thorough grounding in electrodynamics in particular, and in classical field theory in general. An essential resource for both physicists and their students, the book includes a Reader's Guide, which describes the major themes in each chapter, suggests a possible path through the book, and identifies topics for inclusion in, and exclusion from, a given course, depending on the instructor's preference.

Carefully constructed problems complement the material of the text. Classical Electrodynamics should be of great value to all physicists, from first-year graduate students to senior researchers, and to all those interested in electrodynamics, field theory, and mathematical physics.

The original text for the graduate classical electrodynamics course was left unfinished upon Julian Schwinger's death in 1994, but was completed by his former students and co-authors, who have brilliantly recreated the excitement of Schwinger's novel approach. This anniversary edition has been revised by one of those original co-authors, Kimball Milton.

part I|126 pages

Formulation of Electrodynamics

chapter 21|14 pages

Maxwell's Equations

chapter 2|3 pages

Magnetic Charge I

chapter 3|11 pages

Conservation Laws

chapter 4|9 pages

Macroscopic Electrodynamics

chapter 5|16 pages

Simple Model for Constitutive Relations

chapter 7|10 pages

Magnetic Properties of Matter

chapter 8|8 pages

Macroscopic Energy and Momentum

chapter 9|10 pages

Review of Action Principles

chapter 10|13 pages

Action Principle for Electrodynamics

chapter 11|12 pages

Einsteinian Relativity

chapter 12|13 pages

Relativistic Formulation

part II|166 pages

Electrostatics

chapter 12813|13 pages

Stationary Principles for Electrostatics

chapter 14|4 pages

Introduction to Green's Functions

chapter 15|5 pages

Electrostatics in Free Space

chapter 16|8 pages

Semi-Infinite Dielectric

chapter 17|7 pages

Application of Green's Function

chapter 18|10 pages

Bessel Functions

chapter 19|13 pages

Parallel Conducting Plates

chapter 20|10 pages

Modified Bessel Functions

chapter 21|24 pages

Cylindrical Conductors

chapter 22|10 pages

Spherical Harmonics

chapter 23|11 pages

Coulomb's Potential

chapter 24|6 pages

Multipoles

chapter 25|14 pages

Conducting Sphere and Dielectric Ball

chapter 26|12 pages

Dielectrics and Conductors

chapter 27|17 pages

Modes and Variations

part III|38 pages

Magnetostatics

chapter 29428|6 pages

Magnetostatics

chapter 29|6 pages

Macroscopic Current Distributions

chapter 30|5 pages

Magnetic Multipoles

chapter 31|5 pages

Magnetic Scalar Potential

chapter 32|7 pages

Steady Currents and Dissipation

chapter 33|7 pages

Magnetic Charge II

part IV|195 pages

Electromagnetic Radiation

chapter 33234|11 pages

Retarded Green's Function

chapter 35|11 pages

Radiation—Field Point of View

chapter 36|5 pages

Radiation—Source Point of View

chapter 37|7 pages

Models of Antennas

chapter 38|8 pages

Spectral Distribution of Radiation

chapter 39|7 pages

Power Spectrum and Čerenkov Radiation

chapter 41|11 pages

Synchrotron Radiation I

chapter 42|4 pages

Synchrotron Radiation II—Polarization

chapter 43|11 pages

Synchrotron Radiation III—High Energies

chapter 44|16 pages

Propagation in a Dielectric Medium

chapter 45|4 pages

Reflection by an Imperfect Conductor

chapter 46|7 pages

Cylindrical Coordinates

chapter 47|15 pages

Waveguides

chapter 48|7 pages

Scattering by Small Obstacles

chapter 49|11 pages

Partial-Wave Analysis of Scattering

chapter 50|14 pages

Diffraction I

chapter 51|11 pages

Diffraction II

chapter 52|4 pages

Babinet's Principle

chapter 53|9 pages

General Scattering

chapter 54|9 pages

Charged Particle Energy Loss