Page Tools:
  • print-friendly version

Introduction to Electromagnetic Theory: A Modern Perspective

Author(s): Tai Chow, PhD, California State University, California
Details:
  • ISBN-13: 9780763738273
  • ISBN-10:0763738271
  • Hardcover    523 pages      © 2006
Price: International Sales $173.95 US List
Add to Cart Request a Review Copy

Overview

Perfect for the upper-level undergraduate physics student, Introduction to Electromagnetic Theory presents a complete account of classical electromagnetism with a modern perspective.  Its focused approach delivers numerous problems of varying degrees of difficulty for continued study.  The text gives special attention to concepts that are important for the development of modern physics, and also discusses applications to other areas of physics wherever possible. A generous amount of detail has been in given in mathematical manipulations and vectors are employed right from the start.

ShowKey Features

  • The choice of topics and their treatment throughout the book are intended to emphasize a modern point of view.
  • Vectors are used from the start of the text and a summary of vector analysis is included in Chapter One.  No prior knowledge of differential equations is required however differential equations and new mathematical methods are developed throughout the text as needed.
  • Each chapter contains a set of homework problems for continued study.

 

Back to top

ShowTable of Contents

Chapter  1:  Mathematical Preliminaries

Chapter  2:  Electrostatics

Chapter  3:  Electrostatic Boundary Value Problems

Chapter  4:  Magnetostatics

Chapter  5:  Time-dependent Magnetic Fields & Faraday's Law of Induction

Chapter  6:  Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves in Vacuum

Chapter  7:  Electrostatics of Dielectric Media

Chapter  8:  The Physics of Electric Conductivity

Chapter  9:  Magnetic Properties of Matter

Chapter 10:  Electromagnetism and Relativity

Chapter 11:  Electromagnetic Waves in Matter

Chapter 12:  Electromagnetic Waves in Bounded Media

Chapter 13:  Electromagnetic Radiation

Chapter 14:  Motion of Particles in Electric & Magnetic Fields


Back to top

ShowAbout the Author(s)

Tai Chow, PhD-California State University, California

Dr. Chow was born and raised in China.  He received his BS degree in physics from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, a Masters degree in physics from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, and a PhD in physics from the University of Rochester.  Dr. Chow is a Professor of Physics, Emeritus at California State University, Stanislaus, where he has taught since 1969 and served as the department chair for over 17 years.  He has also worked as a Summer Faculty Research Fellow at Stanford University and at NASA.  Dr. Chow has published more than 36 articles in referred physics journals and is the author of four text books and two solutions manuals.

Back to top

ShowAppropriate Courses

Appropriate for a sophomore-junior level Electromagnetism course taken by physics and EE majors. 

Back to top

ShowResources

Back to top