Foreword by Victor F. Weisskopf Preface by the Editor Survey of the Historical Development and the Current Problems of Electrodynamics 1. Electrostatics and Magnetostatics 1. Coulomb's Law 2. The Field of Point Charges 3. Volume and Surface Charge Distributions 4. Energy of the Electrostatic Field 5. Example: Charge Distributions with Spherical Symmetry 6. Proof of the Equivalence of the Electrostatic Field Equations with Coulomb's Law 7. Dielectrics, Phenomenological Treatment 8. ElectroTheory Interpretatioof Dielectric Phenomena 9. The Potential Problem 10. Curvilinear Coordinates 11. Examples of Solutions of the Potential Problem 12. Magnetostatics 13. Units and Dimensions 2. Steady-State Currents 14. Theory of Steady-State Currents 15. The Magnetic Fields of Steady-State Currents 16. The Equivalence of the Magnetic Field Due to Closed Current Loops with that Due to a Distributioof Magnetic Dipoles 17. Ponderomotive Forces 18. The Principle of Actioand Reactiofor Electric and Magnetic Forces. The Maxwell Stress Tensors 3. Quasi-Static Fields 19. Faraday's Law of Induction 20. The Energy of Current Systems 21. Time-Dependent Current Flow iCircuits 22. The SkiEffect 23. The Law of Inductiofor Moving Conductors 4. Rapidly Varying Fields 24. The Maxwell Equations 25. Electromagnetic Waves in Vacuum 26. Conservatioof Energy and Momentum 27. Electromagnetic Waves in Material Media 28. Radiatioof Electromagnetic Waves 29. The Field of a Point Charge in Uniform Motion 30. Radiation damping Bibliography Appendix. Comments by the Editor Index
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