InhaltsangabeSteady Electric Currents.- Steady Electric Currents.- Electrostatics.- Electrostatic Fields.- The Gauss Theorem.- The Laplace-Poisson Equations.- The Legendre Expansion of Potentials.- Electromagnetism.- The Ampère Law.- Magnetic Induction.- Scalar and Vector Potentials.- Inductances and Magnetic Energies.- Time-Dependent Currents.- Electromagnetic Waves.- Transmission Lines.- The Maxwell Equations.- Electromagnetic Radiation.- The Special Theory of Relativity.- Waves and Boundary Problems.- Guided Waves.- Coherent Waves and Radiation Quanta.- Waveguide Transmission.- Resonant Cavities.- Electronic Excitation of Cavity Oscillations.- Dielectric and Magnetic Responses in Resonant Electromagnetic Fields.- Laser Oscillations, Phase Coherence, and Photons.

Preliminaries.- Currents and Voltages.- Part One: Electrostatics: Static Force and Induction in Uniform Electric Fields.- The Gauss Theorem and Insulators.- Potentials and Boundary Conditions.- Electric Dipole and Quadrupole Potentials.- Part Two: Electromagnetism: Magnetic Fields of Magnets and Electric Currents.- Electromagnetic Induction.- Vector and Scalar Potentials.- Some Soluble Problems.- Inductances and Magnetic Energies.- Oscillations and Alternating Currents.- Part Three: Maxwell¿s Equations and Electromagnetic Waves: High-Frequency Transmission.- The Maxwell Equations and Plane Waves.- The Special Theory of Relativity and the Maxwell Equations.- Reflection and Refraction at Dielectric Boundaries.- Conducting Boundaries and Guided Waves I.- Electromagnetic Radiation.- Part Four: Coherent Waves and Radiation Quanta: Guided Waves II.- Resonant Cavities.- Electronic Excitation.- Dielectric and Magnetic Responses to Coherent Radiation.- Laser Oscillation, Phase Coherence and Photons.- Appendix: Mathematical Notes.