电动力学是研究电磁现象的经典的动力学理论，它主要研究电磁场的基本属性、运动规律以及电磁场和带电物质的相互作用。同所有的认识过程一样，人类对电磁运动形态的认识，也是由特殊到一般、由现象到本质逐步深入的。人们对电磁现象的认识范围，是从静电、静磁和似稳电流等特殊方面逐步扩大，直到一般的运动变化的过程。本书是“芝加哥大学物理学讲义”的作品之一，向读者介绍了电磁现象的经典的动力学理论。

PREFACE
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Physical Basis of Maxwell's Equations
1.2 Maxwell's Equations in Matter
1.3 The Mathematical Structure of Electrodynamics
1.3.1 Electrostatic Phenomena
1.3.2 Magnetostatic Phenomena
1.3.3 Wave Phenomena
1.3.4 The General Case
1.3.5 The Mathematical Apparatus
2 TIME-INDEPENDENT FIELDS
2.1 Electrostatics
2.1.1 Method 1: Guesses and Symmetries
2.1.2 Method 2: The Green Function
2.1.3 Expansions with Orthonormal Functions
2.2 Magnetostatics
2.2.1 Method 1: The Magnetic Scalar Potential
2.2.2 Method 2: The Magnetic Vector Potential
2.2.3 Method 3: Hard Ferromagnets
3 GENERAL PROPERTIES OF MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS
3.1 Time-Varying Fields
3.2 The Time-Dependent Green Function
3.3 Conservation Laws
3.3.1 Field Energy Density and Poynting's Theorem
3.3.2 Conservation of Linear Momentum
3.3.3 The Maxwell Stress Tensor
3.3.4 Conservation of Angular Momentum
4 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES AND RADIATION
4.1 Electromagnetic Waves
4.2 Polarization and Stokes Parameters
4.3 Reflection and Refraction
4.4 Time Harmonic Fields in Matter
4.5 Wave Guides
4.6 Radiation
4.6.1 Point Currents and Liénard-Wiechert Potentials
4.6.2 The Radiation Fields
4.6.3 Simple Radiating Systems
5 A NEED FOR THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
5.1 Basic Principles and Transformations
5.2 Mathematical Structure of Four-Dimensional Spacetime
5.3 Lorentz Transformation Properties of Physical Quantities
5.4 Lorentz Transformation of Macroscopic Electrodynamics
5.5 Stress-Energy Momentum Tensor and Conservation Laws
6 THE LAGRANGIAN FORMULATION OF ELECTRODYNAMICS
6.1 Action Principles in Classical Field Theories
6.2 Relativistic Lagrangians of Point-Charge Motions
6.3 The Field Lagrangian
6.4 Invariances and Conservation Laws (Noether's Theorem)
7 RELATIVISTIC TREATMENT OF RADIATION
7.1 The Green Function in Four-Dimensional Spacetime
7.2 Liénard-Wiechert Potentials and Fields for a Point Charge
7.3 Angular Distribution of the Emitted Radiation
7.4 Bremsstrahlung Radiation
7.5 Radiative Motions of a Point Charge
7.6 Radiation Damping and the Relativistic Lorentz-Dirac Equation
8 SPECIAL TOPICS
8.1 Time-Independent Multipole Fields
8.2 Multipole Expansion of Time-Dependent Fields
8.3 Collisions between Charged Particles
8.4 Magnetohydrodynamics
8.5 Alfvén Waves and Particle Acceleration
8.6 Synchrotron Emission
8.7 Echoes of the Big Bang
8.8 Cosmic Superluminal Sources
8.9 Polarized Radiation from the Black Hole at the Galactic Center
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INDEX