本书为经典电磁理论和波传播提供了数学上精确但直观的介绍，同时简要介绍了狭义相对论。作者以独特的现代叙述风格，成功地向读者传达了方程式的物理直觉及其在19世纪的基础，并着重强调了守恒定律。本书具有以下引人注目的特色：（a）给出电磁波与物质相互作用的严格数学推导，（b）清晰易懂地解释了如何用变分原理解决静电学和静磁学中的问题，（c）深入讨论了电荷守恒的核心重要性。具有高等微积分、线性代数、力学和电磁学背景的数学和物理专业高年级本科生、研究生，以及对电磁学感兴趣的数学研究人员均适合阅读本书。

Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1. Preliminaries
1.1. Notions of Vector Analysis
1.2. Notions of Mechanics
Chapter 2. Electrostatics
2.1. The Electric Field
2.2. Fields Generated by Lines, Surfaces, and Space Regions
2.3. Differential Laws of Electrostatics
2.4. Dielectric Media
2.5. Conductors
2.6. Boundary Problems
2.7. Potential Energy
2.8. Two-Dimensional Problems of Electrostatics
2.9. The Electric Field Outside a Cylinder
Chapter 3. Currents and Ohm's Law
3.1. Currents
3.2. Resistive Conductors. Ohm's Law
Chapter 4. Magnetostatics
Chapter 5. Electromagnetic Fields Changing in Time
5.1. The Basic Laws of Electromagnetism
5.2. Magnetic Inductions
5.3. Pre-Maxwellian Magnetic Induction
5.4. Inductance
5.5. Special Induction Loops
Chapter 6. Transmission Lines. Method of the Laplace Transformation
6.1. Transmission Lines
6.2. Undistorted Transmission
6.3. The Method of Laplace Transformation
6.4. Special Transmission Problems
6.5. Extensions of the Method of Laplace Transformations
6.6. Heaviside Calculus
Chapter 7. Electromagnetodynamics of Moving Bodiesand the Principle of Relativity
7.1. Extended Magnetic Induction
7.2. Maxwell's Equations with Reference to a Moving Coordinate System
7.3. Maxwell's Equations in Covariant Form
7.4. The Principle of Relativity
Chapter 8. Electromagnetic Wave Propagation
8.1. Propagation with Finite Speed
8.2. Initial Value Problems
8.3. Huygens' Principle
8.4. Electromagnetic Potentials
8.5. The Radiation Problem
Chapter 9. The Scattering Problem
9.1. Bundles and Packets of Plane Waves
9.2. Scattering Induced by a Conductor
9.3. Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves
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