Electrodynamics of Continuous Media

Volume 8

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Paperback, 460 Pages
Published: JAN-1984
ISBN 10: 0-7506-2634-8
ISBN 13: 978-0-7506-2634-7
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN


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.


 
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