Pohl's Introduction to Physics: Volume 2: Electrodynamics and Optics

by Klaus Lüders (Editor)

I Electricity and Magnetism.- The measurement of electric current and voltage.- The electric field.- Force and energy in electric fields.- The magnetic field.- Induction phenomena.- The relation between electric and magnetic fields.- How the fields depend on the frame of reference.- Forces in magnetic fields.- Applications of induction, in particular to generators and motors.- The inertia of the magnetic field. Alternating current.- Electrical oscillations.- Electromagnetic waves.- Matter in an electric field.- Matter in a magnetic field.- II Optics.- Introduction. Measuring the optical radiant power.- The simplest optical observations.- Image formation and light-beam boundaries.- Fundamental and technical details of image formation and beam limitation.- Radiation energy and beam limitation.- Interference.- Diffraction.- Optical spectrometers.- The velocity of light, and light in moving frames of reference.- Polarized light.- The relation between absorption, reflection and refraction of light.- Scattering.- Dispersion and absorption.- Thermal radiation.- Visual perception and photometry.-Solutions to the Exercises.

664 pages, Paperback

First published October 25, 2005