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• Winner of Winner of the 2020 Prose Award for Excellence in Textbook/Physical Sciences & Mathematics by the Association of American Publishers.

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Author:   P. A. Davidson (Professor of fluid mechanics, Professor of fluid mechanics, University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   1.106kg
ISBN:  

9780198798125

ISBN 10:   0198798121
Pages:   608
Publication Date:   18 February 2019
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Vector Calculus 2: The Physical Signatures of Three Important Partial Differential Equations 3: A Bird's Eye View of Electromagnetism 4: The Foundations of Electrostatics 5: Solving for Electrostatic Fields, the Multipole Expansion and Electrostatic Energy 6: Dielectrics 7: Magnetostatics I: The Magnetic Field, Ampère's Law and the Biot-Savart Law 8: 8 Magnetostatics II: Dipoles, Force Distributions and Energy 9: Magnetic Fields in Matter 10: Faraday's Law of Electromagnetic Induction 11: Quasi-Static Magnetic Fields: Magnetic Energy and Inductance 12: Transient and AC Circuits 13: Static Versus Dynamic Fields: Maxwell's Equations 14: Confined Waves: Transmission Lines, Waveguides and Resonant Cavities 15: Maxwell's Equations in Free Space I: the Propagation of Waves 16: Maxwell's Equations in Free Space II: Radiation 17: Maxwell's Equations in Free Space III: the Fields of Moving Charges 18: Maxwell's Equations in Dielectric and Magnetic Materials 19: Plane Waves in Stationary Dielectrics and Conductors 20: Magnetoydrodynamics I: Governing Equations and Kinematic Theorems 21: Magnetohydrodynamics II: Fusion Plasmas, Alfvén Waves, Planetary Dynamos and Stellar Magnetism 22: An Introduction to Special Relativity 23: Electromagnetism and Special Relativity

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Peter Davidson is currently Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge. He has worked as a research engineer in industry in both the UK and USA and was awarded the Institute of Materials prize in 1996 for best paper in non-ferrous metallurgy. He has authored over 100 publications in the fields of magnetohydrodynamics and turbulence.

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