1 Force and Energy in Electrostatics
1.1 Electric Charge 2
1.2 The Electric Field 6
1.3 Electric Fields in Matter 10
1.3.1 The Atomic Charge Density 10
1.3 2 The Atomic Electric Field 11
1.3.3 The Macroscopic Electric Field 13
1.4 Gauss Law 16
1.4.1 The Flux of a Vector Field 17
1.4.2 The Flux of the Electric Field out of a Closed Surface 19
1.4.3 The Divergence of a Vector Field 24
1.4.4 The Differential Form of Gauss Law 26
1.5 Electrostatic Energy 28
1.5.1 The Electrostatic Potential 28
1.5.2 The Electric Field as the Gradient of the Potential 31
1.5.3 The Dipole Potential 35
1.5.4 Energy Changes Associated with the Atomic Field 38
1.5.5 Capacitors, and Energy in Macroscopic Fields 40
1.5.6 Energy Stored by a Number of Charged Conductors 44
Problems 1 46
2 Dielectrics
2.1 Polarization 49
2.2 Relative Permittivity and Electric Susceptibility 55
2.2.1 The Local Field 59
2.2.2 Polar Molecules 60
2.2.3 Non-polar Liquids 67
2.3 Macroscopic Fields in Dielectrics 70
2.3.1 The Volume Density of Polarization Charge 71
2.3.2 The Electric Displacement Vector 73
2.3.3 Boundary Conditions for D and E 76
2.4 Energy in the Presence of Dielectrics 79
2.4.1 Some Further Remarks about Energy and Forces 80
Problems 2 82
3 Electrostatic Field Calculations
3.1 Poissons Equation and Laplaces Equation 85
3.1.1 The Uniqueness Theorem 88
3.1.2 Electric Fields in the Presence of Free Charge 89
3.2 Boundaries Between Different Regions 91
3.3 Boundary Conditions and Field Patterns 93
3.3.1 Electrostatic Images 93
3.3.2 Spheres and Spherical Cavities in Uniform External Field 97
3.4 Electrostatic Lenses 100
3.5 Numerical Solutions of Poissons Equation 103
3.6 Summary of Electrostatics 107
Problems 3 109
4 Steady Currents and Magnetic Fields
4.1 Electromotive Force and Conduction 112
4.1.1 Current and Resistance 112
4.1.2 The Calculation of Resistance 116
4.2 The Magnetic Field 119
4.2.1 The Lorentz Force 119
4.2.2 Magnetic Field Lines 123
4.3 The Magnetic Dipole 127
4.3.1 Current Loops in External Fields 127
4.3.2 Magnetic Dipoles and Magnetic Fields 130
4.4 Amperes Law 132
4.4.1 The Field of a Large Current Loop 132
4.4.2 The Biot-Savart Law 137
4.4.3 Examples of the Calculation of Magnetic Fields 139
4.5 The Differential Form of Amperes Law 144
4.5.1 The Operator Curl 144
4.5.2 The Vector Curl B 148
4.5.3 The Magnetic Vector Potential 148
4.6 Forces and Torques on Coils 150
4.6.1 Magnetic Flux 151
4.7 The Motion of Charged Particles in Electric and Magnetic Fields 154
4.7.1 The Motion of a Charged Particle in a Uniform Magnetic Field 155
4.7.2 Magnetic Mirrors and Plasmas 157
4.7.3 Magnetic Quadrupole Lenses 159
Problems 4 163
5 Magnetic Materials
5.1 Magnetization 166
5.1.1 Diamagnetism 169
5.1.2 Paramagnetism 173
5.1.3 Ferromagnetism 175
5.2 The Macroscopic Magnetic Field Inside Media 176
5 2.1 The Surface Currents on a Uniformly Magnetized Body 178
5.2.2 The Distributed Currents Within a Magnetized Body 179
5.2.3 Magnetic Susceptibility and Atomic Structure 183
5.3 The Field Vector H 186
5.3.1 Amperes Law for the Field H 186
5.3.2 The Boundary Conditions on the Field B and H 191
5.4 Magnets 194
5.4.1 Electromagnets 194
5.4.2 Permanent Magnets 204
5.5 Summary of Magnetostatics 208
Problems 5 209
6 Electromagnetic Induction and Magnetic Energy
6.1 Electromagnetic Induction 212
6.1.1 Motional Electromotive Force 214
6.1.2 Faradays Law 218
6.1.3 Examples of Induction 221
6.1.4 The Differential Form of Faradays Law 228
6.2 Self-inductance and Mutual Inductance 230
6.2.1 Self-inductance 230
6.2.2 Mutual Inductance 232
6.3 Energy and Forces in Magnetic Fields 234
6.3.1 The Magnetic Energy Stored in an Inductor 234
6.3.2 The Total Magnetic Energy of a System of Currents 235
6.3.3 The Potential Energy of a Coil in a field and the Force on the Coil 237
6.3.4 The Total Magnetic Energy in Terms of the Fields B and H 239
6.3.5 Non-linear Media 241
6.3.6 Further Comments on Energy in Magnetic Fields 243
6.4. The Measurement of Magnetic Fields and Susceptibilities 246
6.4.1 The Measurement of Magnetic fields 246
6.4.2 The Measurement of Magnetic Susceptibilities 248
Problems 6 250
7 Alternating Currents and Transients
7.1 Alternating Current Generators 253
7.2 Amplitude, Phase and Period 256
7.3 Resistance, Capacitance and Inductance in A.C. Circuits 257
7.4 The Phasor Diagram and Complex Impedance 260
7.5 Power in A.C. Circuits 266
7.6 Resonance 268
7.7 Transients 274
Problems 7 280
8 Linear Circuits
8.1 Networks 282
8.1.1 Kirchhoffs Rules 283
8.1.2 Loop Analysis, Node Analysis and Superposition 286
8.1.3 A.C. Networks 288
8.2 Audio-frequency Bridges 291
8.3 Impedance and Admittance 293
8.3.1 Input Impedance 296
8.3.2 Output Impedance and Thévenins Theorem 297
8.4 Fitters 299
8.4.1 Ladder Networks 301
8.4.2 Higher Order Filters and Delay Lines 303
8.5 Transformers 307
8.5.1 The Ideal Transformer 308
8.5.2 Applications of Transformers 311
8.5.3 Real Transformers 312
Problems 8 318
9 Transmission Lines
9.1 Propagation of Signals in a Lossless Transmission Line 324
9.2 Practical Types of Transmission Line 329
9.2.1 The Parallel Wire Transmission Line 339
9.2.2 The Coaxial Cable 331
9.2.3 Parallel Strip Lines 333
9.3 Reflections 335
9.4 The Input Impedance of a Mismatched Line 338
9.5 Lossy Lines 342
Problems 9 345
10 Maxwells Equations
10.1 The Equation of Continuity 348
10.2 Displacement Current 350
10.3 Maxwells Equations 356
10.4 Electromagnetic Radiation 359
10.5 The Microscopic Field Equations 360
Problems 10 362
11 Electromagnetic Waves
11.1 Electromagnetic Waves in Free Space 365
11.2 Plane Waves and Polarization 368
11.2.1 Plane Waves in Free Space 373
11.2.2 Plane Waves in Isotropic Insulating Media 375
11.3 Dispersion 379
11.4 Energy in Electromagnetic Waves 383
11.5 The Absorption of Plane Waves in Conductors and the Skin Effect 388
11.6 The Reflection and Transmission of Electromagnetic Waves 391
11.6.1 Boundary Conditions on Electric and Magnetic Fields 392
11.6.2 Reflection at Dielectric Boundaries 396
11.6.3 Reflection at Metallic Boundaries 399
11.6.4 Polarization by Reflection 401
11.7 Electromagnetic Waves and Photons 404
Problems 11 406
12 Waveguides
12.1 The Propagation of Waves Between Conducting Plates 409
12.2 Rectangular Waveguides 415
12.2.1 The TE01 Mode 420
12.2 2 Further Comments on Waveguides 423
12.3 Cavities 426
Problems 12 430
13 The Generation of Electromagnetic Waves
13.1 The Retarded Potentials 433
13.2 The Hertzian Dipole 436
13.3 Antennas 443
Problems 13 450
14 Electromagnetism and Special Relativity
14.1 Introductory Remarks 451
14.2 The Lorentz Transformation 452
14.3 Charges and Field, as seen by Different Observers 455
14.4 Four-vectors 458
14.5 Maxwells Equations in Four-vector Form 461
14.6 Transformation of the Fields 464
14.7 Magnetism as a Relativistic Phenomenon 469
14.8 Retarded Potentials from the Relativistic Standpoint 4 73
Problems 14 476
Appendix A Units
A.1 Electrical Units and Standards 477
A.1.1 The Definition of the Ampere 477
A.1.2 Calibration and Comparison of Electrical Standards 479
A.2 Gaussian Units 482
A.3 Conversion between SI and Gaussian Units 485
Appendix B Fields and Differential Operators
B.1 The Operators div, grad and curl 487
B.2 Formulae in Different Coordinate Systems 489
B.3 Identities 493
Appendix C the Derivation of the BiotSavart Law
Solution to Problems 497
Further Reading 518
Index 519
