Field Analysis and Potential Theory (Lecture Notes in Engineering)

The text of this book comprises a thorough and detailed exposition of the mathematical theory of potential and its application to classical electromagnetic field theory. In as much as a prior knowledge of little more than vector addition and multiplication is assumed on the part of the reader, selected portions are suitable as an undergraduate text in vector analysis; at the same time the level of development is such that it may serve as a text for advanced graduate students, teachers and all professionally mature researchers in the areas of communication electromagnetics, plasma physics, electromagnetic compatability, magnetics and geomagnetism. And for students, teachers and all professionals concerned with the foundations of classical electromagnetic theory as embodied in the Maxwell-Lorentz equations, the work offers a novel approach and logical development free from many of the difficulties inherent in the conventional treatment. Over 400 exercises of varying degrees of difficulty are spread throughout the text.