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
Description
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.
Audience:
For undergraduates, postgraduates and research workers in theoretical physics and scientists interested in electrodynamics.