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Electromagnetic Radiation: Variational Methods, Waveguides and Accelerators

  • Provides a thorough introduction to electromagnetism with emphasis on radiation theory and its applications

  • Developed out of trailblazing lectures and papers by the late Julian Schwinger (Nobel Laureate 1965) over four decades, and updated with subsequent findings

  • Contains unpublished material by Schwinger

  • Includes a number of straightforward and challenging exercises and problems

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
  2. Maxwell’s Equations

    • Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger
    Pages 1-42
  3. Spherical Harmonics

    • Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger
    Pages 43-61
  4. Relativistic Transformations

    • Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger
    Pages 63-78
  5. Variational Principles for Harmonic Time Dependence

    • Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger
    Pages 79-94
  6. Transmission Lines

    • Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger
    Pages 95-101
  7. Waveguides and Equivalent Transmission Lines

    • Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger
    Pages 103-131
  8. Rectangular and Triangular Waveguides

    • Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger
    Pages 133-152
  9. Electromagnetic Fields in Waveguides with Circular Cross Sections

    • Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger
    Pages 153-178
  10. Reflection and Refraction

    • Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger
    Pages 179-183
  11. Variational Methods

    • Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger
    Pages 185-212
  12. Examples of Variational Calculations for Circular Guide

    • Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger
    Pages 213-225
  13. Steady Currents and Dissipation

    • Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger
    Pages 227-234
  14. The Impedance Concept in Waveguides

    • Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger
    Pages 235-262
  15. Accelerators: Microtrons and Synchrotrons

    • Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger
    Pages 263-279
  16. Synchrotron Radiation

    • Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger
    Pages 281-294
  17. Diffraction

    • Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger
    Pages 295-327
  18. Quantum Limitations on Microwave Oscillators

    • Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger
    Pages 329-346
  19. Back Matter

    Pages 347-360

About this book

Julian Schwinger was already the world’s leading nuclear theorist when he joined the Radiation Laboratory at MIT in 1943, at the ripe age of 25. Just 2 years earlier he had joined the faculty at Purdue, after a postdoc with OppenheimerinBerkeley,andgraduatestudyatColumbia. Anearlysemester at Wisconsin had con?rmed his penchant to work at night, so as not to have to interact with Breit and Wigner there. He was to perfect his iconoclastic 1 habits in his more than 2 years at the Rad Lab. Despite its deliberately misleading name, the Rad Lab was not involved in nuclear physics, which was imagined then by the educated public as a esoteric science without possible military application. Rather, the subject at hand was the perfection of radar, the beaming and re?ection of microwaves which had already saved Britain from the German onslaught. Here was a technology which won the war, rather than one that prematurely ended it, at a still incalculable cost. It was partly for that reason that Schwinger joined this e?ort, rather than what might have appeared to be the more natural project for his awesome talents, the development of nuclear weapons at Los Alamos. He had got a bit of a taste of that at the “Metallurgical Laboratory” in Chicago, and did not much like it. Perhaps more important for his decision to go to and stay at MIT during the war was its less regimented and isolated environment.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA

    Kimball A. Milton

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