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Electricity, Relativity and Magnetism: A Unified Text
ISBN: 978-0-471-98639-3
April 1999
324 pages
Electricity, Relativity and Magnetism: A Unified Text gives a simple and brief review of Einstein?s special theory of relativity, emphasizing force transformations. An outline of electrostatics, Coulomb?s law and its consequences, is also given and is shown to lead to the basis of magnetostatics. Time-dependent electromagnetic effects are introduced naturally via the transformation equations for fields and for potentials, and Maxwell?s equations are systematically derived. Magnetic dipoles and magnetization are shown to arise on transforming electric dipoles and polarizations. The author next discusses the application of the theory to practical magnetic calculations, and finally goes on to introduce the quantum theory of magnetism. The concept of spin is introduced, leading to spin statics and magnetic ordering, and spin dynamics and resonances. An account of crystal field theory is included. All whose work and research involves the understanding of magnetic phenomena will find Electricity, Relativity and Magnetism: A Unified Text an invaluable resource which will enhance and deepen their understanding of the subject.