Overview
- Presents unusual approaches to interesting topics (energy flow, resonant cavity, angular momentum paradox)
- Examines electrodynamics in special relativity, using numerous examples and practice problems
- Covers classical methods in electrostatics (image charges, conformal mapping, separation of variables)
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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This book presents an overview of Classical Electrodynamics. Its second edition includes new chapters that pick up where the material from the first edition left off. The image method introduced in the first edition is expanded to series of images, using simple examples like a point charge or a charged wire between two grounded plates, as well as more relevant examples such as two charged conducting spheres and the force between them. The topic of complex functions is broadened with the introduction of conformal mapping. One new chapter introduces the method of separation of variables, including in Cartesian coordinates (box with sides at fixed voltages), in spherical coordinates (dielectric and conducting sphere, potential of a charged ring), in cylindrical coordinates (conducting wedge, cylinder in uniform field). It also presents the potentials and the fields for a point charge in motion, radiation by a point charge and by a dipole, radiation reaction. Two other chapters present updated lessons on the mass of the photon and search for monopoles. Examples and/or solvable problems are provided throughout.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Francesco Lacava is Associate Professor of Experimental Physics at the "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy. His research interests include the physics of hadron colliders and the development of detectors for particle physics. Over the past three decades, he has contributed to the ATLAS Experiment at LHC, one of the two experiments that observed the Higgs boson in 2012. In recent years, he worked on the upgrade of the muon tracking detectors of the experiment. He previously participated in the UA1 Experiment at the CERN proton-antiproton collider, which discovered the W and Z bosons in 1983. He is the author or co-author of more than 1000 papers on high-energy particle physics and detectors.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Classical Electrodynamics
Book Subtitle: From Image Charges to the Photon Mass and Magnetic Monopoles
Authors: Francesco Lacava
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05099-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05098-5Published: 06 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-05099-2Published: 03 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVIII, 374
Number of Illustrations: 122 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical Electrodynamics, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Circuits and Systems, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics