Electrodynamics of Continuous Media: Volume 8 / Edition 2

by L D Landau, L. P. Pitaevskii, E.M. Lifshitz

Overview

Covers the theory of electromagnetic fields in matter, and the theory of macroscopic electric and magnetic properties of matter. There is a considerable amount of new material particularly on the theory of the magnetic properties of matter and the theory of optical phenomena with new chapters on spatial dispersion and non-linear optics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750626347
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	01/01/1984
Series:	Course of Theoretical Physics Series , #8
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.75(w) x 9.62(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Electrostatics of conductors; Static magnetic field; Superconductivity; The propagation of electromagnetic waves; Spatial dispersion; Diffraction of X rays in crystals.

Editorial Reviews

"a book which can be thoroughly recommended to every physicist." —Nature "unique and indispensable…" —Science Progress

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