Essential Electrodynamics
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788740304480
Table of contents: title: Content; title: Preface; title: 1. Electrodynamics and conservation laws; title: 1.1. Electro-motive force; title: 1.2. Maxwell’s equations; title: 1.3. Conservation of energy; title: 1.4. Conservation of momentum; title: 2. Electromagnetic waves in empty space and linear dielectrics; title: 2.1. The wave equation and its monochromatic plane wave solutions; title: 2.2. Transmission lines; title: 2.3. EM waves in vacuum and linear media; title: 2.4. Coherence of EM waves; title: 2.5. Polarisation of EM waves; title: 2.6. Reﬂection and transmission of EM waves at an interface between linear media; title: 2.7. Fresnel equations; title: 3. Electromagnetic waves in dispersive media; title: 3.1. Dispersion and absorption; title: 3.2. Dispersion; title: 3.3. Refractive index of a conductor; title: 3.4. Wave propagation in dilute plasmas; title: 4. Waveguides; title: 4.1. Waves in rectangular waveguides; title: 4.2. Waveguide modes; title: 4.3. Dispersion relation, phase and group velocities; title: 4.4. The EM ﬁeld and power transmitted for TE10 mode; title: 5. Radiation and scattering; title: 5.1. Larmor’s formula; title: 5.2. Electric dipole radiation; title: 5.3. Scattering of EM radiation; title: 5.4. Formal treatment of radiation by charges and currents; title: 5.5. Antenna theory and multipole expansion in the far zone; title: 5.6. Radiation from quadrupole antennas; title: 5.7. Radiation from long antennas; title: Bibliography; title: Appendices; title: A: SI units and dimensions; title: B: Derivation of the Maxwell stress tensor; title: C: Time-derivative, divergence and curl of the ﬁelds of a monochromatic EM plane wave; title: D: EM ﬁeld of a rectangular cross-section waveguide; title: E: Summary of vector calculus identities; title: Index