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Electricity and magnetism

Title
Electricity and magnetism / Edward M. Purcell.
Author
Purcell, Edward M.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Description
xix, 484 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Classic textbook introducing students to electricity and magnetism, widely considered the best undergraduate textbook on the subject ever written.
Subject
  • Electricity
  • Magnetism
  • Electricity
  • electricity
  • magnetism
  • Science
  • Elektrizität
  • Magnetismus
  • Elektromagnetismus
Note
  • "Previously published by McGraw-Hill, Inc 1985. First published by Cambridge University Press 2011"--T.p. verso.
  • Includes index.
Contents
Electrostatics: charges and fields -- The electric potential -- Electric fields around conductors -- Electric currents -- The fields of moving charges -- The magnetic field -- Electromagnetic induction -- Alternating-current circuits -- Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves -- Electric fields in matter -- Magnetic fields in matter.
ISBN
  • 9781107013605
  • 1107013607
LCCN
2012392256
OCLC
  • ocn751747337
  • 751747337
  • SCSB-1612040
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library