Cover; Title Page; Contents; 1 FORCE AND ENERGY IN ELECTROSTATICS; 1.1 Electric Charge; 1.2 The Electric Field; 1.3 Electric Fields in Matter; 1.3.1 The Atomic Charge Density; 1.3.2 The Atomic Electric Field; 1.3.3 The Macroscopic Electric Field; 1.4 Gauss' Law; 1.4.1 The Flux of a Vector Field; 1.4.2 The Flux of the Electric Field out of a Closed Surface; 1.4.3 The Divergence of a Vector Field; 1.4.4 The Differential Form of Gauss' Law; 1.5 Electrostatic Energy; 1.5.1 The Electrostatic Potential; 1.5.2 The Electric Field as the Gradient of the Potential; 1.5.3 The Dipole Potential. 1.5.4 Energy Changes Associated with the Atomic Field1.5.5 Capacitors, and energy in macroscopic fields; *1.5.6 Energy Stored by a Number of Charged Conductors; PROBLEMS 1; 2 DIELECTRICS; 2.1Polarization; 2.2Relative Permittivity and Electric Susceptibility; 2.2.1The Local Field; 2.2.2Polar Molecules; 2.2.3 Non-polar Liquids; 2.3 Macroscopic Fields in Dielectrics; 2.3.1 The Volume Density of Polarization Charge; 2.3.2 The Electric Displacement Vector; 2.3.3 Boundary Conditions for D and E; 2.4 Energy in the Presence of Dielectrics; *2.4.1Some Further Remarks about Energy and Forces. PROBLEMS 23 ELECTROSTATIC FIELD CALCULATIONS; 3.1 Poisson's Equation and Laplace's Equation; 3.1.1 The Uniqueness Theorem; 3.1.2 Electric Fields in the Presence of Free Charge; 3.2 Boundaries Between Different Regions; 3.3 Boundary Conditions and Field Patterns; *3.3.1 Electrostatic Images; *3.3.2 Spheres and Spherical Cavities in Uniform External Field; *3.4 Electrostatic Lenses; *3.5 Numerical Solutions of Poisson's Equation; 3.6 Summary of Electrostatics; PROBLEMS 3; 4 STEADY CURRENTS AND MAGNETIC FIELDS; 4.1 Electromotive Force and Conduction; 4.1.1Current and Resistance. *4.1.2 The Calculation of Resistance4.2 The Magnetic Field; 4.2.1The Lorentz Force; 4.2.2Magnetic Field Lines; 4.3 The Magnetic Dipole; 4.3.1Current Loops in External Fields; 4.3.2Magnetic Dipoles and Magnetic Fields; 4.4 Ampere's Law; 4.4.1The Field of a Large Current Loop; 4.4.2 The Biot Savart Law; 4.4.3 Examples of the Calculation of Magnetic Fields; 4.5 The Differential Form of Ampere's Law; 4.5.1 The Operator Curl; 4.5.2 The Vector Curl B; 4.5.3 The Magnetic Vector Potential; 4.6Forces and Torques on Coils; 4.6.1Magnetic Flux. 4.7 The Motion of Charged Particles in Electric and Magnetic Fields4.7.1 The Motion of a Charged Particle in a Uniform Magnetic Field; 4.7.2 Magnetic Mirrors and Plasmas; *4.7.3Magnetic Quadrupole Lenses; PROBLEMS 4; 5 MAGNETIC MATERIALS; 5.1 Magnetization; 5.1.1 Diamagnetism; 5.1.2 Paramagnetism; 5.1.3 Ferromagnetism; 5.2 The Macroscopic Magnetic Field Inside Media; 5.2.1 The Surface Currents on a Uniformly Magnetized Body; 5.2.2 The Distributed Currents Within a Magnetized Body; 5.2.3 Magnetic Susceptibility and Atomic Structure; 5.3 The Field Vector H; 5.3.1 Ampere's Law for the Field H.

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