Research Catalog

Title

Vector fields : a vector foundation of electric and magnetic fields / Warren B. Boast.

Author

Boast, Warren B. (Warren Benefield), 1909-1990.

Publication

New York : Harper & Row, 1964.

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Details

Description

xx, 620 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Series Statement

A Harper International Student Reprint.

Subject

• Electricity
• Magnetic fields
• Electrodynamics
• electricity
• magnetic field

Note

• "A revision of [the author's] Principles of electric and magnetic fields, second edition."

Contents

I. Electric fields. Introduction -- Electric fields about fixed, concentrated charges -- Dielectric materials -- General relations in static electric fields -- Energy, force, pressure, and capacitance in electric-field systems -- Applications of electric-field theory of charges at rest to spherical geometries -- Application of electric-field theory of charges at rest to fine lines of charge -- Application of electric-field theory of charges at rest to cylindrical boundaries -- Application of electric-field theory of charges at rest to essentially plane boundaries -- Method of images applied to electric fields of charges at rest close to conducting planes -- Capacitance concepts in multiple-conductor systems -- II. Magnetic fields. Introduction -- General relations in magnetic fields caused by constant currents and by charges moving with constant velocities -- Magnetic materials -- Energy, force, pressure, and inductance in magnetic-field systems -- Applications of magnetic-field theory to fine lines of constant current -- Application of magnetic-field theory to constant currents with cylindrical boundaries -- The solenoid, toroid, and other simple geometric shapes -- Flux-linkage relations in systems of many parallel wires -- III. Interacting electric and magnetic fields. The changing magnetic field -- The changing electric field -- Composite effects of electric and magnetic fields -- IV. Supplementary aspects of electric and magnetic fields. Graphical elements of flux plotting -- Computer solutions of Laplace's and Poisson's equations -- Estimating capacitance and permeance of three-dimensional systems from probable flux paths -- Permanent magnets -- Measurements of electric charge and magnetic flux with the ballistic galvanometer and the fluxmeter -- Appendix A. Vector notation and analysis -- Appendix B. Tables 1-9.

LCCN

64010113

OCLC

• ocm00861646
• 861646
• SCSB-9205862

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library