Classical Electrodynamics: From Image Charges to the Photon Mass and Magnetic Monopoles

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Author(s): Lacava, Francesco
Series: Undergraduate lecture notes in physics
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2016

Language: English
Pages: 195
Tags: Electrodynamics.

Content: 1. Classical Electrodynamics: a short survey.- 2. Orthogonal coordinates.- 3. Multipole expansion.- 4. Method of image charges.- 5. Image charges and dielectrics.- 6. Electrostatics and complex functions.- 7. Relativistic transformations of the electric and magnetic fields.- 8. Relativistic Covariance of the Electrodynamics.- 9. The resonant cavity.- 10. Energy and momentum of the electromagnetic field.- 11. The Feynman paradox.- 12. The test of Coulomb's Law and the mass of the photon.- 13. Magnetic Monopoles.