About the Book

This book is a self contained course in electromagnetic theory suitable for senior physics and electrical engineering students as well as graduate students whose past has not prepared them well for books such as Jackson or Landau and Lifschitz. The text is liberally sprinkled with worked examples illustrating the application of the theory to various physical problems. This new edition features improved accuracy and readability, added and further clarified examples, plus additional sections on Schwarz-Christoffel mappings. Making the book more self sufficient, an appendix on orthogonal function expansions and the derivation of Bessel functions and Legendre polynomials as well as derivation of their generating functions are each included. The number of exercises has also been increased by 45 over the previous edition. This book stresses the unity of electromagnetic theory with electric and magnetic fields developed in parallel. SI units are used throughout and considerable use is made of tensor notation and the Levi-Cevita symbol. To more closely display the parallelism, extensive use is made of the scalar magnetic potential particularly in dealing with the Laplace and Poisson equation. 85 worked problems illustrate the theory. Conformal mappings are dealt with in some detail. Relevant mathematical material is provided in appendices. For information regarding Solutions Manual, please contact the author Jack Vanderlinde at: jvd@unb.ca or see "Related Links - Solution Manual".

Contents:

1. Static Electric and Magnetic Fields in Vacuum

2. Charge and Current Distributions

3. Slowly Varying Fields in Vacuum

4. Energy and Momentum

5. Static Potentials in Vacuum — Laplace’s Equation

       6.  Static Potentials with Sources—Poisson’s Equation

       7. Static Electromagnetic Fields in Matter

      8. Time-Dependent Electromagnetic Fields in Matter

      9. Waveguide Propagation—Bounded Waves

     10. Electromagnetic Radiation

     11. The Covariant Formulation

     12. Radiation Reaction-Electrodynamics