InhaltsangabePreface CHAPTER I: THE FIELD EQUATIONS. MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS. MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF MATTER. UNITS AND DIMENSIONS. THE ELECTROMAGNETIC POTENTIALS. BOUNDARY CONDITIONS. COORDINATE SYSTEMS. THE FIELD SENSORS. CHAPTER II: STRESS AND ENERGY. STRESS AND STRAIN IN ELASTIC MEDIA. ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCES ON CHARGES AND CURRENTS. MAGNETOSTATIC ENERGY. ENERGY FLOW. FORCES ON A DIELECTRIC IN AN ELECTROSTATIC FIELD. FORCES IN THE MAGNETOSTATIC FIELD. FORCES IN THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD. CHAPTER III: THE ELECTROSTATIC FIELD. CALCULATION OF THE FIELD FROM THE CHARGE DISTRIBUTION. EXPANSION OF THE POTENTIAL IN SPHERICAL HARMONICS. DIELECTRIC POLARIZATION. BOUNDARYVALUE PROBLEMS. PROBLEM OF THE SPHERE. CHAPTER IV: THE MAGNETOSTATIC FIELD. GENERAL PROPERTIES OF A MAGNETOSTATFIC FIELD. CALCULATION OF THE FIELD OF A CURRENT DISTRIBUTION. A DIGRESSION ON UNITS AND DIMENSIONS. MAGNETIC POLARIZATION. DISCONTINUITIES OF THE VECTORS A AND B. INTEGRATION OF THE EQUATION. BOUNDARYVALUE PROBLEMS. PROBLEM OF THE ELLIPSOID. CYLINDER IN A PARALLEL FIELD. PROBLEMS. CHAPTER V: PLANE WAVES IN UNBOUNDED ISOTROPIC MEDIA. PROPAGATION OF PLANE WAVES. GENERAL SOLUTIONS OF THE ONE-DIMENSION WAVE EQUATION. DISPERSION. VELOCITIES OF PROPAGATION. PROBLEMS. CHAPTER VI: CYLINDRICAL WAVES. EQUATIONS OF A CYLINDRICAL FIE LD. WAVE FUNCTIONS OF THE CIRCULAR CYLINDER. WAVE FUNCTIONS OF THE ELLIPTIC CYLINDER. PROBLEMS. CHAPTER VII: SPHERICAL WAVES. THE VECTOR WAVE EQUATION. THE SCALAR WAVE EQUATION IN SPHERICAL COORDINATES. THE VECTOR WAVE EQUATION IN SPHERICACL COORDINATES. PROBLEMS. CHAPTER VIII: RADIATION. THE INHOMOGENEOUS SOLAR WAVE EQUATION. A MULTIPOLE EXPANSION. RADIATION THEORY OF LINEAR ANTENNA SYSTEMS. THE KIRCHHOFF-HUYGENS PRINCIPLE. FOURDIMENSIONAL FORMULATION OF THE RADIATION PROBLEM. PROBLEMS. CHAPTER IX: BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEMS. GENERAL THEOREMS. REFLECTION AND REFRACTION AT A PLANE SURFACE. PLANE SHEETS. SURFACE WAVES. PROPAGATION ALONG A CIRCULAR CYLINDER. 9 15 Natural Modes. 9 16 Conductor Ernbeded in a Dielectric. 9 17 Further Discussion of the Principal Wave. 9 18 Waves in Hollow Pipes. COAXIA LINES. OSCILLATIONS OF A SPHERE. DIFFRACTION OF A PLANE WAVE BY A SPHERE. EFFECT OF THE EARTH ON THE PROPAGATION OF RADIO WAVES. PROBLEMS. APPENDIX I. A. NUMERICAL VALUES OF FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS. B. DIMENSIONS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC QUANTITIES. C. CONVERSION TABLES. APPENDIX II. FORMULAS FROM VECTOR ANALYSIS. APPENDIX III. CONDUCTIVITY OF VARIOUS MATERIALS. SPECIFIC INDUCTIVE CAPACITY OF DIELECTRICS. APPENDIX IV. ASSOCIATED LEGENDRE FUNCTIONS. Index.

JULIUS ADAMS STRATTON (1901-1994) had an SB, 1923, and SM, 1926, in electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; an ScD in mathematical physics, 1928, Eidgenossiche Technische Hochshule, Zurich, Switzerland; and was the eleventh president of MIT. Much of his research at MIT focused on the propagation of short electromagnetic waves. During World War II, he worked on the development of LORAN (Long Range Navigation) for planes and ships. He served as a consultant to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and chaired committees to improve all-weather flying systems and ground radar, fire control, and radar bombing equipment. He also helped plan the use of radar in the Normandy invasion. He was awarded the Medal of Merit for his services. He became MIT's first chancellor in 1956, acting president in 1957, and president in 1959. At his retirement in 1966, he was elected a life member of the MIT Corporation. A trustee of the Ford Foundation from 1955-1971, he served as its chairman from 1966 to 1971.