Leinaas, Jon Magne

Classical mechanics and electrodynamics Jon Magne Leinaas - World Scientific Low Price Edition 1st Indian ed. - Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2019 - xii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Generalized coordinates
Lagrange's equations
Hamiltonian dynamics
The four-dimensional space-time
Consequences of the Lorentz transformations
Four-vector formalism and covariant equations
Relativistic kinematics
Relativistic dynamics
Maxwell's equations
Electromagnetic field dynamics
Maxwell's equations with stationary sources
Electromagnetic radiation

The book gives a general introduction to classical theoretical physics, in the fields of mechanics, relativity and electromagnetism. It is analytical in approach and detailed in the derivations of physical consequences from the fundamental principles in each of the fields. The book is aimed at physics students in the last year of their undergraduate or first year of their graduate studies

9780000988515


Mathematical physics
Analytic Mechanics
Electrodynamics

531.0151 / LIE