Electromagnetic Processes in Dispersive Media (Paperback)

Part I. Electromagnetic Fields in Vacuo: 1. Electromagnetic fields; 2. Cartesian tensors; 3. The stress tensor and multipole moments; 4. Fourier transforms; 5. Greens functions; Part II. The Electromagnetic Responses of Media: 6. The response of a medium; 7. General properties of response tensors; 8. Analytic properties of response functions; 9. Response tensors for some idealized media; 10. Response tensors for plasmas; Part III. Wave Properties: 11. Dispersion relations and polarization vectors; 12. Waves in dielectrics and anisotropic crystals; 13. Waves in plasmas; 14. The polarization of transverse waves; 15. Energetics and damping of waves; Part IV. Theory of Emission Processes: 16. The emission formula; 17. Emission by multipoles; 18. The Larmor formula; 19. Alternative treatment of emission processes; Part V. Specific Emission Processes: 20. Cerenkov emission; 21. Bremsstrahlung; 22. Formal theory of gyromagnetic emission; 23. Gyroemission by mildly relativistic electrons; 24. Synchrotron emission; 25. Scattering of waves by particles; 26. Nonlinear emission processes; Bibliographic notes; Glossary of symbols; Index.