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Traditionally one begins a course or a textbook on electrodynamics with an ex-tensive discussion of electrostatics, of magnetostatics, and of stationary currents,before turningto the full time-dependentMaxwell theory in local form. In this bookI choose a somewhat different approach: Starting from Maxwell’s equations in in-tegral form, that is to say, from the phenomenological and experimentally verifiedbasisofelectrodynamics,thelocalequationsareformulatedanddiscussedwiththeirgeneral time and space dependence right from the start. Static or stationary situa-tions appear as special cases for which Maxwell’s equations split into two more orless independent groups and thus are decoupled to a certain extent.Great importance is attached to the symmetries of the Maxwell equations and, inparticular, their covariance with respect to Lorentz transformations.Another centralissue is the treatment of electrodynamics in the framework of classical field theoryby means of a Lagrange density and Hamilton’s principle. General principles thatwere developedfor mechanics, appear in a deeper and more general application thatcan serve as a model and prototype for any classical field theory. The fact that

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Author

Florian Scheck

Publisher

Spektrum Akademischer Verlag. in Springer-Verlag GmbH

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9783642279850

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Physics, Science, Quantum Physics