Macroscopic
Electrodynamics, Parts I and II
This is two semester graduate level text, approximately 360+350
pages long. It is on the level of the well-known textbook by J.
D. Jackson. Included are many problems (approximately 150+120)
at the end of the chapters which specifically illustrate or expand
upon the text. Parts 1 and 2 were edited in 2006 and Part 1 was
also revised in January, 2009 (not enough changes to be newly
copyrighted). The texts still need
additional editing throughout to introduce new material, make it
more self-consistent, remove typos, and try to actually make it
more readable. In addition, many of the figures, which have been
composed on a Macintosh using a picture editor, need to be made
clearer. Previously, I gave up on providing an up-to-date Mac Word
OSX version and simply posted the original Mac Word 5.1 versions
-- I have now given up on providing any Word version whatsoever!
In the future, just the PDFs will be given. (You can find the previous
versions in the "Archives" section.)
In the January, 2009 revision, sections have been numbered and
problems at the end of the chapters are ordered and numbered
to correspond to the text sections to facilitate problem assignment.
Part of Chapter 7 from Part II, related to macroscopic Maxwell
equation models, has been moved into Chapter 6 of Part I. Part
II was also revised during the summer of 2009 mainly with re-ordered
and numbered sections and problems, but also a new section covering
connections to quantum field theory.
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