An Introduction to Classical Electrodynamics covers the topics of Electricity, Magnetism, and Optics at the upper-level undergraduate level in physics or electrical engineering. This book tells the story of the historical development of electrodynamics, at the same time as introducing students to electrodynamics with vector calculus.

This is the best treatment of the historical development of electricity, magnetism and electrodynamics I have ever seen. The breadth of the authors' knowledge, together with their ability to summarize historical results in exceptionally clear terms, is wonderful. Developing electromagnetism historically makes many concepts easier to understand .

--- By an anonymous reviewer who is a senior professor at a major college or university.

Table of Contents

Part I: Electricity

Chapter 1 Charge

Chapter 2 The Electrostatic Force

Chapter 3 Electrical Potential Energy

Chapter 4 Gauss's Law

Chapter 5 The Equations of Laplace and Poisson

PART II: Magnetism

Chapter 6 Permanent Magnets

Chapter 7 The Vector Potential and the Curl

Chapter 8 Electromagnetism

Chapter 9 Faraday's Law of Induction

Chapter 10 The Electron

Chapter 11 Galilean Relativity in Electrodynamics

Chapter 12 Superconductors and Plasmas

Part III: Light

Chapter 13 Transmission Lines

Chapter 14 Light in an Optical Medium

Chapter 15 Light in Free Space

Chapter 16 Sources of Electromagnetic Radiation

Chapter 17 Special Relativity

Chapter 18 The Photon

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ISBN: 978-1-949942-00-2

728 pages, 650 illustrations, [...]

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