Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Notation
- Part I Special Relativity
- 1 Introduction: Inertial systems and the Galilei invariance of Classical Mechanics
- 2 Light propagation in moving coordinate systems and Lorentz transformations
- 3 Our world as a Minkowski space
- 4 Mechanics of Special Relativity
- 5 Optics of plane waves
- 6 Four-dimensional vectors and tensors
- 7 Electrodynamics in vacuo
- 8 Transformation properties of electromagnetic fields: examples
- 9 Null vectors and the algebraic properties of electromagnetic field tensors
- 10 Charged point particles and their field
- 11 Pole-dipole particles and their field
- 12 Electrodynamics in media
- 13 Perfect fluids and other physical theories
- Part II Riemannian geometry
- Part III Foundations of Einstein's theory of gravitation
- Part IV Linearized theory of gravitation, far fields and gravitational waves
- Part V Invariant characterization of exact solutions
- Part VI Gravitational collapse and black holes
- Part VII Cosmology
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - Transformation properties of electromagnetic fields: examples
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Notation
- Part I Special Relativity
- 1 Introduction: Inertial systems and the Galilei invariance of Classical Mechanics
- 2 Light propagation in moving coordinate systems and Lorentz transformations
- 3 Our world as a Minkowski space
- 4 Mechanics of Special Relativity
- 5 Optics of plane waves
- 6 Four-dimensional vectors and tensors
- 7 Electrodynamics in vacuo
- 8 Transformation properties of electromagnetic fields: examples
- 9 Null vectors and the algebraic properties of electromagnetic field tensors
- 10 Charged point particles and their field
- 11 Pole-dipole particles and their field
- 12 Electrodynamics in media
- 13 Perfect fluids and other physical theories
- Part II Riemannian geometry
- Part III Foundations of Einstein's theory of gravitation
- Part IV Linearized theory of gravitation, far fields and gravitational waves
- Part V Invariant characterization of exact solutions
- Part VI Gravitational collapse and black holes
- Part VII Cosmology
- Bibliography
- Index
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- RelativityAn Introduction to Special and General Relativity, pp. 58 - 62Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004