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CLASSICAL FIELD THEORY

ELECTROMAGNETISM AND GRAVITATION

  • Electrostatics
  • Steady Currents and Magnetostatics
  • Time-Dependent Fields and Currents
  • Radiation by Prescribed Sources
  • Scattering
  • Invariance and Special Relativity
  • Lagrangian Field Theory
    • Review of Lagrangians in Mechanics, 281
    • Relativistic Lagrangian for Particles in a Field, 284
    • Lagrangian for Fields, 290
    • Interacting Fields and Particles, 298
    • Vector Fields, 304
    • General Covariance, 313
    • Local Transformation to a Pseudo-Euclidean System
    • Alternative Construction of a Covariantly Conserved,
    • Problems
    • Symmetric Stress-Energy Tensor
  • Gravity
    • The Nature of the Gravitational Field
    • The Tensor Field
    • Lagrangian for the Gravitational Field
    • Particles in a Gravitational Field
    • Interaction of the Gravitational Field
    • Curvature,
    • The Einstein Field Equations and the Precession of Orbits,
    • Gravitational Radiation
    • Problem
  • Appendix A. Vectors and Tensors
  • Appendix B. Spherical Harmonics and Orthogonal Polynomials