Electrodynamics of Continuous Media
Volume 8
By- L D Landau, Institute of Physical Problems, U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences
- L. P. Pitaevskii, Institute for Physical Problems, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR
- E.M. Lifshitz
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 theoryof optical phenomena with new chapters on spatial dispersion and non-linear optics.
Audience
For undergraduates, postgraduates and research workers in theoretical physics and scientists interested in electrodynamics.
Paperback, 460 Pages
Published: January 1984
Imprint: Butterworth Heinemann
ISBN: 978-0-7506-2634-7
Reviews
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'a book which can be thoroughly recommended to every physicist.' Nature 'unique and indispensable...' Science Progress
Contents
- Electrostatics of conductors; Static magnetic field; Superconductivity; The propagation of electromagnetic waves; Spatial dispersion; Diffraction of X rays in crystals.
