经典电动力学是物理系学生的主课之一，其教材有多种版本，其中有些教材因内容繁多使学生望而生畏。本书则是一部内容简明的教科书，其宗旨是不用复杂的数学推导公式阐述电动力学问题。本教材主要包括：格林定理、正交函数和多极膨胀、函数论基本理论、物质填充空间用的场方程、简单介电质和磁化率、电介质中的静电能和静电力、矢势、磁矩、物质中的磁场、法拉第感应定律、麦克斯韦方程、准稳态电流和电路、真空中的电磁波、物质中的电磁波、反射和折射指数、波导和共振空腔、光波、真空中的运动电荷、赫兹偶极子、电动力学的协变量表述、相对论协变量拉格朗日形式论、电动力学中的单位、电动力学理论历史等。

Preface

Chapter 1 Introducion and Review

 1.1 Coulomb's Law, Electric Field and Potential

 1.2 Gauss Law

 1.3 Divergence Theorem

 1.4 Curl and Stokes Theorem

 1.5 Cylindrical Coordinates

 1.6 Dpherical Coordinates

 1.7 Electric Dipoles

 1.8 Vector Formulas and Vector Projction

 1.9 Conductors, Surface Charges and Boundary Conditions

 1.10 Laplace and Poisson Equation, Method of Images

 1.11 Cqpacitance

 1.12 Electrostatic Potential Energy and Energy Density

 1.13 Dirac Delta-Function

 Problems

Chapter 2 Electrostatics, Multipoles, Dielectrics

 2.1 Fourier Series and Orthogonality

 2.2 Two-Dimensional Potential Problems in Rectangles

 2.3 Fourier Transrom

 2.4 Legendre Polynomials and Laplace Equations in Spherical Coordinates

 2.5 Spherical Harmonics

 2.6 Cylindrical Coordinates and Bessel Functions

 2.7 Strong Electric Fields near Sharp Edges and Sharp Soints

 2.8 Matrices

 2.9 Multipole Expansion

 2.10 Spherical Harmonics Addition tHEOREM

 2.11 Multipoles in External EWlectric Field

 2.12 Large Conductor Plate with Circular Hole

 2.13 Dielectric Media

 2.14 Electrostatics and Boundary Conditions in Dielectrics

 2.15 Potential Energy and Energy Density in Dielectrics

 Problems

Chapter 3 Magnetostatics

 3.1 Current Density and Equation of Continuity

 3.2 Biot and Savart Law

 3.3 magnetic Vector Potential

 3.4 Force and Torque on Local Currents due to Magnetic Induction

 3.5 Electromotive Force and Magnetic Flux

 3.6 Magnetic Materical and Magnetic Intensity vector

 3.7 magnetic Scalar Potential, Magnetic Shielding

 3.8 Permanent Magnet

 3.9 Current Density in Parallel Plate Diode

 Problems

Chapter 4 Electromagnetic Field Equations

Chapter 5 Plane Electromagnetic Waves

Chapter 6 Wave Guides

Chapter 7 Radiating Systems

Chapter 8 Scattering and Radiation

Chapter 9 Special Theory of Relativity

Chapter 10 Realtivistic Dynamics

Chapter 11 Radiation by Moving Charges

Chapter 12 Spherical Waves

Chapter 13 Plasma Physics

Chapter 14 Laser and Holography

Chapter 15 Superconductivity

Appendix A Systems of Units

Appendix B Frequently Used Symbols

References

Index