V L Ginzburg, Vitaly L Ginzburg, David Ginsburg

Applications of Electrodynamics in Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is intended as a supplementary text to the standard course books on theoretical physics and astrophysics, addressing applications and selected problems in theoretical physics and astrophysics, most of which are to a greater or lesser extent associated with electrodynamics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor and Francis
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 484
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 167mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 934g
• ISBN-13: 9782881247194
• ISBN-10: 2881247199
• Artikelnr.: 23252010

Autorenporträt

David Ginsburg

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Hamiltonian Approach to Electrodynamics 2. Radiation Reaction 3.
Uniformly Accelerated Charges 4. Radiation Emitted by Relativistic and
Non-relativistic Moving Particles 5. Synchrotron Radiation 6.
Electrodynamics of a Continuous Medium 7. The Äerenkov and Doppler Effects
8. Transition Radiation and Transition Scattering 9. Superluminal Sources
of Radiation 10. Reabsorption and Transfer of Radiation 11. Electrodynamics
of Media with Spatial Dispersion 12. Permittivity and Wave Propagation in
Plasmas 13. The Energy-Momentum Tensor and Forces in Macroscopic
Electrodynamics. Energy and Heat Liberated in a Dispersive Absorbing Medium
14. Fluctuations and van der Waals Forces 15. Wave Scattering in a Medium
16. Astrophysics of Cosmic Rays 17. X-Ray Astronomy 18. Gamma-Ray Astronomy