內容大鋼
本書共十四部分，講述電磁場和引力場的經典理論。書中敘述了相對性原理和相對論力學，基於作用原理的電磁場方程的推導，電磁波的傳播和輻射問題，幾章介紹了廣義相對論，同時闡述張量分析的基礎理論。
作者介紹
(俄羅斯)L.D.朗道//E.M.栗弗席茲|責編:高蓉//李黎
目錄
EXCERPTS FROM THE PREFACES TO THE FIRST AND SECOND EDITIONS
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH ENGISH EDITION
EDITOR'S PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH RUSSIAN EDITION
NOTATION
CHAPTER 1. THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY
1 Velocity of propagation of interaction
2 Intervals
3 Proper time
4 The Lorentz transformation
5 Transformation of velocities
6 Four-vectors
7 Four-dimensional velocity
CHAPTER 2. RELATIVISTIC MECHANICS
8 The principle of least action
9 Energy and momentum
10 Transformation of distribution functions
11 Decay of particles
12 Invariant cross-section
13 Elastic collisions of particles
14 Angular momentum
CHAPTER 3. CHARGES IN ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
15 Elementary particles in the theory of relativity
16 Four-potential of a field
17 Equations of motion of a charge in a field
18 Gauge invariance
19 Constant electromagnetic field
20 Motion in a constant uniform electric field
21 Motion in a constant uniform magnetic field
22 Motion of a charge in constant uniform electric and magnetic fields
23 The electromagnetic field tensor
24 Lorentz transformation of the field
25 Invariants of the field
CHAPTER 4. THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EQUATIONS
26 The first pair of Maxwell's equations
27 The action function of the electromagnetic field
28 The four-dimensional current vector
29 The equation of continuity
30 The second pair of Maxwell equations
31 Energy density and energy flux
32 The energy-momentum tensor
33 Energy-momentum tensor of the electromagnetic field
34 The virial theorem
35 The energy-momentum tensor for macroscopic bodies
CHAPTER 5. CONSTANT ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
36 Coulomb's law
37 Electrostatic energy of charges
38 The field of a uniformly moving charge
39 Motion in the Coulomb field
40 The dipole moment
41 Multipole moments
42 System of charges in an external field
43 Constant magnetic field
44 Magnetic moments
45 Larmor's theorem
CHAPTER 6. ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
46 The wave equation
47 Plane waves
48 Monochromatic plane waves
49 Spectral resolution
50 Partially polarized light
51 The Fourier resolution of the electrostatic field
52 Characteristic vibrations of the field
CHAPTER 7. THE PROPAGATION OF LIGHT
53 Geometrical optics54 Intensity
55 The angular eikonal
56 Narrow bundles of rays
57 Image formation with broad bundles of rays
58 The limits of geometrical optics
59 Diffraction
60 Fresnel diffraction
61 Fraunhofer diffraction
CHAPTER 8. THE FIELD OF MOVING CHARGES
62 The retarded potentials
63 The Lienard-Wiechert potentials
64 Spectral resolution of the retarded potentials
65 The Lagrangian to terms of second order
CHAPTER 9. RADIATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
66 The field of a system of charges at large distances
67 Dipole radiation
68 Dipole radiation during collisions
69 Radiation of low frequency in collisions
70 Radiation in the case of Coulomb interaction
71 Quadrupole and magnetic dipole radiation
72 The field of the radiation at near distances
73 Radiation from a rapidly moving charge
74 Synchrotron radiation (magnetic bremsstrahlung)
75 Radiation damping
76 Radiation damping in the relativistic case
77 Spectral resolution of the radiation in the ultrarelativistic case
78 Scattering by free charges
79 Scattering of low-frequency waves
80 Scattering of high-frequency waves
CHAPTER 10. PARTICLE IN A GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
81 Gravitational fields in nonrelativistic mechanics
82 The gravitational field in relativistic mechanics
83 Curvilinear coordinates
84 Distances and time intervals
85 Covariant differentiation
86 The relation of the Christoffel symbols to the metric tensor
87 Motion of a particle in a gravitational field
88 The constant gravitational field
89 Rotation
90 The equations of electrodynamics in the presence of a gravitational field
CHAPTER 11. THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD EQUATIONS
91 The curvature tensor
92 Properties of the curvature tensor
93 The action function for the gravitational field
94 The energy-momentum tensor
95 The Einstein equations
96 The energy-momentum pseudotensor of the gravitational field
97 The synchronous reference system
98 The tetrad representation of the Einstein equations
CHAPTER 12. THE FIELD OF GRAVITATING BODIES
99 Newton's law
100 The centrally symmetric gravitational field
101 Motion in a centrally symmetric gravitational field
102 Gravitational collapse of a spherical body
103 Gravitational collapse of a dustlike sphere
104 Gravitational collapse of nonspherical and rotating bodies
105 Gravitational fields at large distances from bodies
106 The equations of motion of a system of bodies in the second approximation
CHAPTER 13. GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
107 Weak gravitational waves
108 Gravitational waves in curved space-time
109 Strong gravitational waves
110 Radiation of gravitational waves<
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