Table of Contents

Foreword

Personal Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction Foundations of Physics

1 Magnetic Interaction of Steady Currents

1.1 Model System

1.2 Matter

1.3 Electrodynamics

1.4 Coupling

1.5 Integral and Differential Forms

1.6 Electrodynamic Momentum

1.7 Forces on Currents

1.8 Multiturn Coils

1.9 Total Momentum

1.10 Current Distribution

1.11 Current in a Wire

1.12 Summary

2 Propagating Waves

2.1 A Brief History

2.2 Four-Vectors

2.3 The Riemann-Sommerfeld Equation

2.4 Model System

2.5 General Boundary Condition

2.6 Coaxial Boundary Condition

2.7 Current-Voltage Relation

2.8 Electron Interaction

2.9 Propagation of Step Function

2.10 Waveguides

2.11 Summary

3 Electromagnetic Energy

3.1 Energy in Electromagnetic Systems

3.2 Elementary Examples

3.3 Energy of Propagating Solution

3.4 Characteristic Impedance

3.5 Finite Coaxial Line

3.6 Reflection and Transmission

3.7 Infinite-Response Solutions

3.8 Local Conservation of Energy

3.9 Lorentz Transformation Revisited

3.10 The Lorentz Transformation

3.11 Resistance in Coherent Systems

3.12 Summary

4 Radiation in Free Space

4.1 Integral and Differential Four-Vector Forms

4.2 Retarded and Advanced Potentials

4.3 Thermodynamics

4.4 Radiation Damping

4.5 Coupled Loops

4.6 Resonator

4.7 Two Coupled Resonators

4.8 Energy Coupling

4.9 Interaction with Arbitrary Phase

4.10 Generalized Energy Transfer

4.11 Random Universe

4.12 Cosmological Properties of Radiation Damping

4.13 Electric Dipole

4.14 Coupled Electric Dipoles

4.15 General Electromagnetic Coupling

4.16 Radiation Pattern

5 Electromagnetic Interaction of Atoms

5.1 The Two-State System

5.2 Transitions

5.3 Transitions in Macroscopic Quantum Resonator

5.4 Radiation Transfer Between Atoms

Appendix The Fermi Sphere

A.1 Monolithic Solid

A.2 The k-Lattice

A.3 Fermi Sphere

A.4 Ring Geometry

A.5 Collective States

A.6 Classes of Solids

Epilogue

References

Index