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The Feynman lectures on physics. vol. II, mainly electromagnetism and matter / Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands.

By: Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988.
Contributor(s): Leighton, Robert B | Sands, Matthew L. (Matthew Linzee).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Reading, Mass. : Addison Wesley Longman, 1964 (1977 printing)Description: various pagings : ill. ; 28 cm.ISBN: 020102117X (pbk.).Subject(s): PhysicsDDC classification: 530
Contents:
Electromagnetism -- Differential calculus of vector fields -- Vector integral calculus -- Electrostatics -- Application of Gauss' law -- The electric field in various circumstances -- The electric field in various circumstances (continued) -- Electrostatic energy -- Electricity in the atmosphere -- Dielectrics -- Inside dielectrics -- Electrostatic analogs -- Magnetostatics -- The magnetic field in various situations -- The vector potential -- Induced currents -- The laws of induction -- The Maxwell equations -- The principle of least action -- Solutions of Maxwell's equations in free space -- Solutions of Maxwell's equations with currents and charges -- AC circuits -- Cavity resonators -- Waveguides -- Electrodynamics in relativistic notation -- Lorentz transformations of the fields -- Field energy and field momentum -- Electromagnetic mass -- The motion of charges in electric and magnetic fields -- The internal geometry of crystals -- Tensors -- Refractive index of dense materials -- Reflection from surfaces -- The magnetism of matter -- Paramagnetism and magnetic resonance -- Ferromagnetism -- Magnetic materials -- Elasticity -- Elastic materials -- The flow of dry water -- The flow of wet water -- Curved space.
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General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 530 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00097969
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 530 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00097971
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

These are the lectures in physics that I gave last year and the year before to the freshman and sophomore classes at Caltech. The lectures are, of course, not verbatim-they have been edited, sometimes extensively and sometimes less so. The lectures form only part of the complete course. The whole group of 180 students gathered in a big lecture room twice a week to hear these lectures and then they broke up into small groups of 15 or 20 students in recitation sections under the guidance of a teaching assistant. In addition, there was a laboratory session once a week.

Includes index.

Electromagnetism -- Differential calculus of vector fields -- Vector integral calculus -- Electrostatics -- Application of Gauss' law -- The electric field in various circumstances -- The electric field in various circumstances (continued) -- Electrostatic energy -- Electricity in the atmosphere -- Dielectrics -- Inside dielectrics -- Electrostatic analogs -- Magnetostatics -- The magnetic field in various situations -- The vector potential -- Induced currents -- The laws of induction -- The Maxwell equations -- The principle of least action -- Solutions of Maxwell's equations in free space -- Solutions of Maxwell's equations with currents and charges -- AC circuits -- Cavity resonators -- Waveguides -- Electrodynamics in relativistic notation -- Lorentz transformations of the fields -- Field energy and field momentum -- Electromagnetic mass -- The motion of charges in electric and magnetic fields -- The internal geometry of crystals -- Tensors -- Refractive index of dense materials -- Reflection from surfaces -- The magnetism of matter -- Paramagnetism and magnetic resonance -- Ferromagnetism -- Magnetic materials -- Elasticity -- Elastic materials -- The flow of dry water -- The flow of wet water -- Curved space.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Richard Feynman, an American theoretical physicist, received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1942 and worked at Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the atomic bomb during World War II. From 1945 to 1950, he taught at Cornell University and became professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology in 1950.

Feynman made important contributions to quantum electrodynamics (QED) and electromagnetic interactions, such as interactions among electrons. In Feynman's approach, interactions are considered exchanges of virtual particles. For example, Feynman explained the interaction of two electrons as an exchange of virtual photons. Feynman's theory has proved to be accurate in its predictions. In 1965 the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to three pioneers in quantum electrodynamics: Feynman, Julian Schwinger, and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga.

Feynman was an outspoken critic of NASA for its failure to notice flaws in the design of the Challenger space shuttle, which resulted in its tragic explosion.

(Bowker Author Biography)