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Electrostatics.<br> <br> Steady Currents and Magnetostatics.<br> <br> Time-Dependent Fields and Currents.<br> <br> Radiation by Prescribed Sources.<br> <br> Scattering.<br> <br> Invariance and Special Relativity.<br> <br> Lagrangian Field Theory.<br> <br> Gravity.<br> <br> Appendices.<br> <br> Index.

Francis E. Low is Institute Professor Emeritus of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With over 40 years in the field, he has lectured and published widely on theoretical and particle physics.

A unique textbook on electromagnetism and gravitation<br> <br> This volume combines a novel approach with an accessible, down-to-earth treatment of electromagnetism and gravitation. It leads the student through classical electromagnetic theory, and introduces the gravitational field as a conventional second-rank tensor field.<br> <br> Clear, concise, and self-contained, this theoretical exposition focuses on basic principles rather than applications and avoids abstractions through a careful selection of topics. Classical Field Theory: Electromagnetism and Gravitation features<br> * Everything a student should know to grasp the fundamentals of classical field theory<br> * A chapter on scattering that discusses material not readily available in other textbooks<br> * Two appendices--one on vectors and tensors, the other on spherical harmonics--to review material recurring throughout the text<br> * End-of-chapter exercises, some of which serve as mini-research problems<br> <br> Based on courses taught by the author at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Classical Field Theory is an excellent text for a two-semester first-year graduate course on electromagnetism and gravitation.

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