Electromagnetics: history, theory, and applications

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IEEE Press Series on Electromagnetic Waves, 1993, 630 pages, ISBN 0-7803-1024-1A useful reference for engineers and physicists, the IEEE reprinting of this classic text provides a deep, fundamental understanding of electromagnetics. Each chapter begins with a pertinent historical overview that shows how special relativity can be used to develop a complete electromagnetic theory from Coulomb's Law, with the needed relativity theory developed in an early chapter. Electromagnetics also contains many applications in the chapters covering electrostatics, magnetostatics, and electrodynamics, while the final three chapters of the book extend the electromagnetic theory to dielectric, magnetic, and conducting materials. Key features include: The development and use of special relativity to establish a complete electromagnetic theory based on Coulomb's Law as the sole experimental postulateHistorical introductions to each chapterExtensive treatment of electrical properties of materials in the final three chaptersThe phenomenon of lightThe special theory of relativityElectrostatics in free spaceMagnetostatics in free spaceElectromagnetics in free spaceDielectric materialsMagnetic materialsConductive materials