The Classical Theory of Fields ( 4 )

Publication series :4

Author: Landau   L D  

Publisher: Elsevier Science‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9781483293288

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780080250724

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780080250724

Subject: O41 theoretical physics

Language: ENG

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Translated from the 6th Russian edition, this latest edition contains seven new sections with chapters on General Relativity, Gravitational Waves and Relativistic Cosmology, where Professor Lifshitz's interests lay. The text of the 3rd English edition has been thoroughly revised and additional problems inserted

Chapter

3 Proper time

4 The Lorentz transformation

5 Transformation of velocities

6 Four-vectors

7 Four-dimensional velocity

CHAPTER 2. RELATIVISTIC MECHANICS

8 The principle of least action

9 Energy and momentum

10 Transformation of distribution functions

11 Decay of particles

12 Invariant cross-section

13 Elastic collisions of particles

14 Angular momentum

CHAPTER 3. CHARGES IN ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS

15 Elementary particles in the theory of relativity

16 Four-potential of a field

17 Equations of motion of a charge in a field

18 Gauge invariance

19 Constant electromagnetic field

20 Motion in a constant uniform electric field

21 Motion in a constant uniform magnetic field

22 Motion of a charge in constant uniform electric and magnetic field

23 The electromagnetic field tensor

24 Lorentz transformation of the field

25 Invariants of the field

CHAPTER 4. THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EQUATIONS

26 The first pair of Maxwell's equations

27 The action function of the electromagnetic field

28 The four-dimensional current vector

29 The equation of continuity

30 The second pair of Maxwell equations

31 Energy density and energy flux

32 The energy-momentum tensor

33 Energy-momentum tensor of the electromagnetic field

34 The virial theorem

35 The energy-momentum tensor for macroscopic bodies

CHAPTER 5. CONSTANT ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS

36 Coulomb's law

37 Electrostatic energy of charges

38 The field of a uniformly moving charge

39 Motion in the Coulomb field

40 The dipole moment

41 Multipole moments

42 System of charges in an external field

43 Constant magnetic field

44 Magnetic moments

45 Larmor's theorem

CHAPTER 6. ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES

46 The wave equation

47 Plane waves

48 Monochromatic plane waves

49 Spectral resolution

50 Partially polarized light

51 The Fourier resolution of the electrostatic field

52 Characteristic vibrations of the field

CHAPTER 7. THE PROPAGATION OF LIGHT

53 Geometrical optics

54 Intensity

55 The angular eikonal

56 Narrow bundles of rays

57 Image formation with broad bundles of rays

58 The limits of geometrical optics

59 Diffraction

60 Fresnel diffraction

61 Fraunhofer diffraction

CHAPTER 8. THE FIELD OF MOVING CHARGES

62 The retarded potentials

63 The Lienard-Wiechert potentials

64 Spectral resolution of the retarded potentials

65 The Lagrangian to terms of second order

CHAPTER 9. RADIATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES

66 The field of a system of charges at large distances

67 Dipole radiation

68 Dipole radiation during collisions

69 Radiation of low frequency in collisions

70 Radiation in the case of Coulomb interaction

71 Quadrupole and magnetic dipole radiation

72 The field of the radiation at near distances

73 Radiation from a rapidly moving charge

74 Synchrotron radiation (magnetic bremsstrahlung)

75 Radiation damping

76 Radiation damping in the relativistic case

77 Spectral resolution of the radiation in the ultrarelativistic case

78 Scattering by free charges

79 Scattering of low-frequency waves

80 Scattering of high-frequency waves

CHAPTER 10. PARTICLE IN A GRAVITATIONAL FIELD

81 Gravitational fields in nonrelativistic mechanics

82 The gravitational field in relativistic mechanics

83 Curvilinear coordinates

84 Distances and time intervals

85 Covariant differentiation

86 The relation of the Christofiel symbols to the metric tensor

87 Motion of a particle in a gravitational field

88 The constant gravitational field

89 Rotation

90 The equations of electrodynamics in the presence of a gravitational field

CHAPTER 11. THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD EQUATIONS

91 The curvature tensor

92 Properties of the curvature tensor

93 The action function for the gravitational field

94 The energy-momentum tensor

95 The Einstein equations

96 The energy-momentum pseudotensor of the gravitational field

97 The synchronous reference system

98 The tetrad representation of the Einstein equations

CHAPTER 12. THE FIELD OF GRAVITATING BODIES

99 Newton's law

100 The centrally symmetric gravitational field

101 Motion in a centrally symmetric gravitational field

102 Gravitational collapse of a spherical body

103 Gravitational collapse of a dustlike sphere

104 Gravitational collapse of nonspherical and rotating bodies

105 Gravitational fields at large distances from bodies

106 The equations of motion of a system of bodies in the second approximation

CHAPTER 13. GRAVITATIONAL WAVES

107 Weak gravitational waves

108 Gravitational waves in curved space-time

109 Strong gravitational waves

110 Radiation of gravitational waves

CHAPTER 14. RELATIVISTIC COSMOLOGY

111 Isotropie space

112 The closed isotropic model

113 The open isotropic model

114 The red shift

115 Gravitational stability of an isotropic universe

116 Homogeneous spaces

117 The flat anisotropic model

118 Oscillating regime of approach to a singular point

119 The time singularity in the general cosmological solution of the Einstein equations

INDEX

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