Boris and Kaiser S. Kunz Podolsky
Marcel Dekker | 1969 | ISBN-10: 0824715403 | pdf | 492 pp | 6.05 MB
The main problem in preparing the final manuscript for publication was
to bring the treatment up-to-date without undertaking such a thorough
revision as to destroy the tone of the original manuscript. This was
especially true of the revisions that have had to be made since Professor
Podolsky's death.
The second author has been helped in this revision by the critical
comments of Harry E. Denman, who read most of the original manuscript,
suggesting improvements in logic or mathematical treatment. Section 28,
moreover, is based on an article in Journal of Mathematics and Physics
(1955), B. Podolsky and H. Denman.
The main purpose of the book is to treat classical electrodynamics in a
logically consistent way so as to prepare the student for quantum electro-
dynamics, elementary particle physics, and quantum field theory. For
this purpose one could make the treatment more modern by phrasing
many of the arguments in group theoretic language, but this would have
demanded too complete a revision of the original treatment.
As it stands the text should be suitable for the one-semester course in
classical electrodynamics given in most universities as a part of a core
curriculum in graduate physics.
While the treatment could no doubt be made more appealing to the
expert by reducing the mathematical details given, I feel that the student
will appreciate the time he is able to save by having these details spelled
out clearly. This accounts also for our burdening many sentences with
references to the specific equations that are needed to make a given step
in the development. The extensive mathematical appendices should make
the book more nearly self-contained and thus help to make it more readily
comprehended by the average graduate student.
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Marcel Dekker | 1969 | ISBN-10: 0824715403 | pdf | 492 pp | 6.05 MB
The main problem in preparing the final manuscript for publication was
to bring the treatment up-to-date without undertaking such a thorough
revision as to destroy the tone of the original manuscript. This was
especially true of the revisions that have had to be made since Professor
Podolsky's death.
The second author has been helped in this revision by the critical
comments of Harry E. Denman, who read most of the original manuscript,
suggesting improvements in logic or mathematical treatment. Section 28,
moreover, is based on an article in Journal of Mathematics and Physics
(1955), B. Podolsky and H. Denman.
The main purpose of the book is to treat classical electrodynamics in a
logically consistent way so as to prepare the student for quantum electro-
dynamics, elementary particle physics, and quantum field theory. For
this purpose one could make the treatment more modern by phrasing
many of the arguments in group theoretic language, but this would have
demanded too complete a revision of the original treatment.
As it stands the text should be suitable for the one-semester course in
classical electrodynamics given in most universities as a part of a core
curriculum in graduate physics.
While the treatment could no doubt be made more appealing to the
expert by reducing the mathematical details given, I feel that the student
will appreciate the time he is able to save by having these details spelled
out clearly. This accounts also for our burdening many sentences with
references to the specific equations that are needed to make a given step
in the development. The extensive mathematical appendices should make
the book more nearly self-contained and thus help to make it more readily
comprehended by the average graduate student.
Download