Daniel Fleisch - A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations (2008)

A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations,

by Daniel Fleisch

# ISBN-13: 9780521877619
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press
# Publication year: 2008
# Pages: 146


Overview
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Maxwell's Equations are four of the most influential equations in science:
Gauss's law for electric fields, Gauss's law for magnetic fields, Faraday's
law, and the Ampere-Maxwell law.

In this guide for students, each equation is the subject of an entire chapter,
with detailed, plain-language explanations of the physical meaning of each
symbol in the equation, for both the integral and differential forms.

The final chapter shows how Maxwell's Equations may be combined to produce the
wave equation, the basis for the electromagnetic theory of light.


Contents
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Preface
1. Gauss's law for electric fields
2. Gauss's law for magnetic fields
3. Faraday's law
4. The Ampere--Maxwell law
5. From Maxwell's equations to the wave equation
Appendix
Further reading
Index.


Author
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Daniel Fleisch is Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Wittenberg University, Ohio.

His research interests include radar cross-section measurement, radar system analysis, and ground-penetrating radar.

He is a member of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), and the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE).


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