Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition of Volume 2
- Preface to the First Edition of Volume 2
- Preface to the Berkeley Physics Course
- CHAPTER 1 LECTROSTATICS: CHARGES AND FIELDS
- CHAPTER 2 THE ELECTRIC POTENTIAL
- CHAPTER 3 ELECTRIC FIELDS AROUND CONDUCTORS
- CHAPTER 4 ELECTRIC CURRENTS
- CHAPTER 5 THE FIELDS OF MOVING CHARGES
- CHAPTER 6 THE MAGNETIC FIELD
- CHAPTER 7 ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION
- CHAPTER 8 ALTERNATING-CURRENT CIRCUITS
- CHAPTER 9 MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
- CHAPTER 10 ELECTRIC FIELDS IN MATTER
- CHAPTER 11 MAGNETIC FIELDS IN MATTER
- Appendix A A Short Review of Special Relativity
- Appendix B Radiation by an Accelerated Charge
- Appendix C Superconductivity
- Appendix D Magnetic Resonance
- Appendix E Exact Relations among SI and CGS Units
- Index
Preface to the Second Edition of Volume 2
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition of Volume 2
- Preface to the First Edition of Volume 2
- Preface to the Berkeley Physics Course
- CHAPTER 1 LECTROSTATICS: CHARGES AND FIELDS
- CHAPTER 2 THE ELECTRIC POTENTIAL
- CHAPTER 3 ELECTRIC FIELDS AROUND CONDUCTORS
- CHAPTER 4 ELECTRIC CURRENTS
- CHAPTER 5 THE FIELDS OF MOVING CHARGES
- CHAPTER 6 THE MAGNETIC FIELD
- CHAPTER 7 ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION
- CHAPTER 8 ALTERNATING-CURRENT CIRCUITS
- CHAPTER 9 MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
- CHAPTER 10 ELECTRIC FIELDS IN MATTER
- CHAPTER 11 MAGNETIC FIELDS IN MATTER
- Appendix A A Short Review of Special Relativity
- Appendix B Radiation by an Accelerated Charge
- Appendix C Superconductivity
- Appendix D Magnetic Resonance
- Appendix E Exact Relations among SI and CGS Units
- Index
Summary
This revision of “Electricity and Magnetism,” Volume 2 of the Berkeley Physics Course, has been made with three broad aims in mind. First, I have tried to make the text clearer at many points. In years of use teachers and students have found innumerable places where a simplification or reorganization of an explanation could make it easier to follow. Doubtless some opportunities for such improvements have still been missed; not too many, I hope.
A second aim was to make the book practically independent of its companion volumes in the Berkeley Physics Course. As originally conceived it was bracketed between Volume 1, which provided the needed special relativity, and Volume 3, “Waves and Oscillations,” to which was allocated the topic of electromagnetic waves. As it has turned out, Volume 2 has been rather widely used alone. In recognition of that I have made certain changes and additions. A concise review of the relations of special relativity is included as Appendix A. Some previous introduction to relativity is still assumed. The review provides a handy reference and summary for the ideas and formulas we need to understand the fields of moving charges and their transformation from one frame to another. The development of Maxwell's equations for the vacuum has been transferred from the heavily loaded Chapter 7 (on induction) to a new Chapter 9, where it leads naturally into an elementary treatment of plane electromagnetic waves, both running and standing.
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- Electricity and Magnetism , pp. xi - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011