Electromagnetism: Maxwell Equations, Wave Propagation and Emission

Index

A, B

Absorption coefficient, 378

Absorption spectrum, 371

Action-at-a-distance, 23, 50

Airy disk, 362

Ampère’s law, 167-169, 204-207, 265

Analytic functions, method of, 134-135

Angular momentum, 301, 303-304

Antennas, 393, 476-479

Antiferromagnetism, 227

Attenuation coefficient, 310, 350, 352, 399, 403

Babinet’s theorem, 363

Ballistic galvanometer, 254

Band structure of solids, 86-88

Bandwidth of a radiation, 324

Bessel equation and functions, 143-145

Betatron, 255-256

Binding energy, 44, 49

Biot-Savart’s law, 160-161, 488.

Bohr magneton, 196

Bohr model, 15

Bound charges, 99

Boundary conditions, 128-129, 341, 467-468

Dirichlet and Neumann’s, 128, 129

in a waveguide, 395-396

of em fields, 109, 209-211, 276-277

Bragg law, 369, 386 (P11.22)

Brewster’s polarization, 345-346

Brillouin and Debye theory of paramagnetism, 224

C

Capacitors, 66-72

combination of, 70-71

Cavities, 405-407

Clausius-Mossotti equation, 119, 306

Coherence of waves, 289, 325, 357

Conduction current, 76, 435

Conduction, classical model of, 79-81,

band theory of, 84-89

Conductors, 15,

in equilibrium, 61-64

with cavities, 64-65

Conservation laws, 12, 13

of charge, 14-15, 17, 27, 78-79, 435

Conservation of energy in reflection and refraction, 344-345

Conservative forces and fields, 8, 9, 27

Continuity equation, 78-79, 264

Contraction of length, 424

Contrast or visibility factor, 355

Convection current, 76, 435

Cotton’s balance, 156

Coulomb experiment, 23

Coulomb or transversal gauge, 272, 294

Covariance, 12 ...