作者简介 弗尔维奥·梅利亚(Fulvio Melia)是美籍意大利裔天体物理学家和宇宙学家,亚利桑那大学教授。他博士毕业于美国麻省理工学院,后在芝加哥大学进行博士后研究。他曾获得过美国总统青年研究奖(Presidential Young Investigator Award)和斯隆研究奖(Sloan Research Fellowship)。他著有多种教材与科普图书,获得过2003年美国图书馆协会的杰出学术图书奖(Outstanding Academic Books),2005年天文杂志(Astronomy)评选的年度很好天文图书奖(The Year's Best Astronomy Books)和2009年美国出版协会的学术很好奖(The PROSE Award)。梅利亚教授还是芝加哥大学出版社理论天体物理学书系的主编。
目录 Preface 1. Introduction 1.1. The Physical Basis of Maxwell’s Equations 1.2. Maxwell’s Equations in Matter 1.3. The Mathematical Structure of Electrodynamics 1.3.1. Electrostatic Phenomena 1.3.2. Magnetostatic Phenomena 1.3.3. Wave Phenomena 1.3.4. The General Case 1.3.5. The Mathematical Apparatus 2. Time-Independent Fields 2.1. Electrostatics 2.1.1. Method 1: Guesses and Symmetries 2.1.2. Method 2: The Green Function 2.1.3. Expansions with Orthonormal Functions 2.2. Magnetostatics 2.2.1. Method 1: The Magnetic Scalar Potential 2.2.2. Method 2: The Magnetic Vector Potential 2.2.3. Method 3: Hard Ferromagnets 3. General Properties of Maxwell’s Equations 3.1. Time-Varying Fields 3.2. The Time-Dependent Green Function 3.3. Conservation Laws 3.3.1. Field Energy Density and Poynting’s Theorem 3.3.2. Conservation of Linear Momentum 3.3.3. The Maxwell Stress Tensor 3.3.4. Conservation of Angular Momentum 4. Electromagnetic Waves and Radiation 4.1. Electromagnetic Waves 4.2. Polarization and Stokes Parameters 4.3. Reflection and Refraction 4.4. Time Harmonic Fields in Matter 4.5. Wave Guides 4.6. Radiation 4.6.1. Point Currents and Liénard-Wiechert Potentials 4.6.2. The Radiation Fields 4.6.3. Simple Radiating Systems 5. The Need for the Special Theory of Relativity 5.1. Basic Principles and Transformations 5.2. Mathematical Structure of Four-Dimensional Spacetime 5.3. Lorentz Transformation Properties of Physical Quantities 5.4. Lorentz Transformation of Macroscopic Electrodynamics 5.5. Stress-Energy Momentum Tensor and Conservation Laws 6. The Lagrangian Formulation of Electrodynamics 6.1. Action Principles in Classical Field Theories 6.2. Relativistic Lagrangians of Point-Charge Motions 6.3. The Field Lagrangian 6.4. Invariances and Conservation Laws (Noether’s Theorem) 7. Relativistic Treatment of Radiation 7.1. The Green Function in Four-Dimensional Spacetime 7.2. Liénard-Wiechert Potentials and Fields for a Point Charge 7.3. Angular Distribution of the Emitted Radiation 7.4. Bremsstrahlung Radiation 7.5. Radiative Motions of a Point Charge 7.6. Radiation Damping and the Relativistic Lorentz-Dirac Equation 8. Special Topics 8.1. Time-Independent Multipole Fields 8.2. Multiple Expansion of Time-Dependent Fields 8.3. Collisions between Charged Particles 8.4. Magnetohydrodynamics 8.5. Alfvén Waves and Particle Acceleration 8.6. Synchrotron Emission 8.7. Echoes of the Big Bang 8.8. Cosmic Superluminal Sources 8.9. Polarized Radiation from the Black Hole at the Galactic Center References Index
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