Reproduces major portions of Maxwell's classic papers on key concepts in modern physics, written between 1855 and 1864, along with commentaries, notes, and band

Self-contained treatment examines operational definition of charge and current; specification of arbitrary distributions of charge and current; definition of el

"We owe Clerk Maxwell the precise formulation of the space-time laws of electromagnetic fields. Imagine his own feelings when the partial differential equations

Reviews the fundamental concepts behind the theory and computation of electromagnetic fields The book is divided in two parts. The first part covers both fundam

After a brief introduction into the theory of electromagnetic fields and the definition of the field quantities the book teaches the analytical solution methods