Interpretation of Classical Electromagnetism

1. A Typical Conventional Development of Maxwell’s Equations.- 2. The Scalar Potential ? and the Vector Potential A.- 3. The Electric and Magnetic Fields due to an Accelerating Classical Point Charge.- 4. Development of Maxwell’s Equations from the Expressions for the Electric and Magnetic Fields due to a Moving Classical Point Charge.- 5. Electric Fields due to Electrical Circuits.- 6. Magnetic Fields due to Electrical Circuits.- 7. Quasi-Stationary Phenomena and AC Theory.- 8. Forces, Energy and Electromagnetic Momentum.- 9. Stationary Dielectrics and Stationary Magnetic Materials.- 10. Special Relativity and Classical Electromagnetism.- Appendix A. Mathematical Methods.- A1. A summary of the formulae of vector analysis.- A1.1. Scalar and vector products.- A1.2. The gradient of a scalar.- A1.3. The divergence of a vector.- A1.4. The curl of a vector.- A1.5. The Laplacian operator.- A1.6. Some useful relations.- A1.7. Gauss’ mathematical theorem.- A1.8. Stokes’ theorem.- A1.9. Cylindrical coordinates.- A1.10. Spherical polar coordinates.- A2. The partial derivatives of macroscopic field variables.- A3. Some useful mathematical relations.- A4. The corrections to the differential form of the Biot-Savart law for steady currents.- Appendix B. Conduction Current Flow in Stationary Conductors.- B 1. Example of the mode of action of a source of emf.- B2. Location of the charge distributions associated with conduction current flow.- B3. Magnitudes of the surface and boundary charge distributions associated with conduction current flow.- B4. Models of conduction current flow in a stationary conductor.- B5. Energy propagation in DC circuits.- Appendix C. The Electric and Magnetic Fields due to an Accelerating Classical Point Charge.- Cl. Introduction.- C2. Calculationof the electric field.- C3. Calculation of the magnetic field.- Appendix E. The Transformations of Special. Relativity.