Electricity and Magnetism

图书标准信息

• 作者 Edward M.、David J. Morin 著
• 出版社 Cambridge University Press
• ISBN 9781107014022
• 定价 1199.40元
• 装帧 精装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 其他
• 页数 853页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

For50years,EdwardM.Purcell'sclassictextbookhasintroducedstudentstotheworldofelectricityandmagnetism.ThethirdeditionhasbeenbroughtuptodateandisnowinSIunits.Itfeatureshundredsofnewexamples,problems,andfigures,andcontainsdiscussionsofreal-lifeapplications.Thetextbookcoversallthestandardintroductorytopics,suchaselectrostatics,magnetism,circuits,electromagneticwaves,andelectricandmagneticfieldsinmatter.Takinganontraditionalapproach,magnetismisderivedasarelativisticeffect.Mathematicalconceptsareintroducedinparallelwiththephysicstopicsathand,makingthemotivationsclear.Macroscopicphenomenaarederivedrigorouslyfromtheunderlyingmicroscopicphysics.Withworkedexamples,hundredsofillustrations,andnearly600end-of-chapterproblemsandexercises,thistextbookisidealforelectricityandmagnetismcourses.Solutionstotheexercisesareavailableforinstructorsatwww.cambridge.org/Purcell-Morin.

【作者简介】

EdwardM.Purcell(1912-97)wastherecipientofmanyawardsforhisscientific,educationalandcivicwork.In1952hesharedtheNobelPrizeforPhysicsforhisindependentdiscoveryofnuclearmagneticresonanceinliquidsandinsolids,anelegantandprecisewayofdeterminingchemicalstructureandpropertiesofmaterialswhichiswidelyusedtoday.DuringhiscareerheservedasscienceadvisortoPresidentsDwightD.Eisenhower,JohnF.KennedyandLyndonB.Johnson.

DavidJ.MorinisLectureronPhysicsandAssociateDirectorofUndergraduateStudiesintheDepartmentofPhysics,HarvardUniversity.HeisauthorofthetextbookIntroductiontoClassicalMechanics(CambridgeUniversityPress,2008).