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Is there an alternative to SIMION?
Is anyone aware of an alternative, possibly open-source, to the SIMION software?
From their website:
SIMION is a particle optics simulation software primarily used to
calculate electric fields ...
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Freshman E&M texts with unusual presentation or order of topics
The last time I taught freshman calculus-based E&M was in 2007. The main reason I haven't taught it since then is that I wasn't satisfied with my own presentation and didn't have good ideas for ...
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Introductory Electricity and Magnetism Textbook for Biology and Biophysics
My research advisor will be teaching a new course at my university on Electricity and Magnetism for Biophysics and Biology students. This is the first course the students would be taking in E&M. ...
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How can we excite transverse magnetic or electric ( TM or TE) modes on metallic mediums?
I would be very thankful if someone can point me at references on explaining theories of excitations for transverse magnetic or electric modes.
In engineering, the literature has plenty of papers on ...
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Einstein's last attempt of a unified field theory
Are there any good sources on Einstein's attempt to unify general relativity with electrodynamics, a unified field theory, before he died?
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Are there modern 1st year university physics textbooks using old-schoool layout, i.e. no sidebars and smaller format?
For various reasons I dislike the layout of modern university physics textbooks as exemplified by Wolfson, Young & Freedman, Hawkes, Giancoli etc.
For teaching I would rather use/recommend a ...
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Tips on basic electricity and magnetism books [duplicate]
I would like to study basic electricity and magnetism with a book with a good mathematical language (e.g. to calculate the thing with gauss law the book explain the importance of parametrization, ...
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Any resource explaining how to get a volume charge density from a surface charge density?
Where (book, lecture notes) could one find
a clear explanation (better if examples are provided)
about how to find the volume charge density in a point
given the surface charge density there?
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Origin of physics laws [closed]
I am a math student and I have been self studying physics lately. I am going to take a course on electromagnetism this year, so I searched for books that are mathematically rigorous on that topic. And ...
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Is there a formalism on EM waves that uses only coordinate free calculations?
This book for example:
Theory of Electromagnetic Waves: A Coordinate-free Approach, by Hollis C. Chen (McGraw-Hill, 1983); Amazon link,
only I can't find it online without a registration.
In ...
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Where can I find the original derivation of Walter Ritz ballistic theory?
Where can I find the original derivation of Walter Ritz ballistic theory? I think it can be found most probably in his own book "Gesammelte werke Walter Ritz". Although there is an english version, I ...
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Any good accompanying study material to go with JD Jackson Electrodynamics
I am doing self study with JD Jackson's "Classical Electrodynamics". Since not enrolled anywhere this is all I am using. At lot of places in the book, I feel need for more detail. At times its just ...
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Intuitive introduction to gauge symmetry for non-physicist?
In this video, Lawrence Krauss explains for a popular audience that the laws of electromagnetism are uniquely determined by assuming that we can "change the rules locally" (he uses as an example, that ...
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Quantizing the orbital angular momentum of a free Electromagnetic field
It can be shown that the total angular momentum of a free electromagnetic field is given by (for example, in the book A Modern Introduction to quantum field theory by Maggiore, page 98, Eq. (4.82)) $$...
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Solution of Maxwell's equations in curved spacetime
Can someone please suggest some resources on the topic of the solution of Maxwell's equations in curved spacetime?
I have already read about Maxwell's equation in curved spacetime from the book of ...