Electromagnetic Processes in Dispersive Media
Electromagnetic Processes in Dispersive Media
This is an advanced text on electromagnetic theory, presenting a systematic discussion of electromagnetic waves and radiation processes in a wide variety of media. The treatment, taken from the field of plasma physics, is based on the dielectric tensor, and this permits the discussion of media outside the scope of the usual approach adopted in most textbooks on electromagnetism. The approach taken also has notable advantages when applied to the conventional emission processes of electromagnetic theory. The authors have thus unified the approaches used in plasma physics and astrophysics on the one hand, and in optics on the other. The book has been written clearly and pedagogically, and will be therefore of value to senior undergraduates, graduate students, lecturers and researchers. Students will find the exercises provided at the end of each chapter particularly useful.
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432 pages
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Electromagnetic Fields in Vacuo:
- 1. Electromagnetic fields
- 2. Cartesian tensors
- 3. The stress tensor and multipole moments
- 4. Fourier transforms
- 5. Greens functions
- Part II. The Electromagnetic Responses of Media:
- 6. The response of a medium
- 7. General properties of response tensors
- 8. Analytic properties of response functions
- 9. Response tensors for some idealized media
- 10. Response tensors for plasmas
- Part III. Wave Properties:
- 11. Dispersion relations and polarization vectors
- 12. Waves in dielectrics and anisotropic crystals
- 13. Waves in plasmas
- 14. The polarization of transverse waves
- 15. Energetics and damping of waves
- Part IV. Theory of Emission Processes:
- 16. The emission formula
- 17. Emission by multipoles
- 18. The Larmor formula
- 19. Alternative treatment of emission processes
- Part V. Specific Emission Processes:
- 20. Cerenkov emission
- 21. Bremsstrahlung
- 22. Formal theory of gyromagnetic emission
- 23. Gyroemission by mildly relativistic electrons
- 24. Synchrotron emission
- 25. Scattering of waves by particles
- 26. Nonlinear emission processes
- Bibliographic notes
- Glossary of symbols
- Index.
