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What book should I read to learn about the magnetocaloric effect

I am trying to study the magnetocaloric effect for a project but I can't find any good resources that deeply talk about it. Could you make any good recommandation to learn the basics about this effect ...
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Utilization of Hertz potentials in calculations

Electrodynamics textbooks, like Zangwill's Modern Electrodynamics, introduce the Hertz potentials $\boldsymbol{\Pi}_m$ and $\boldsymbol{\Pi}_e$(see Chapter 20 of the fore-mentioned book). While they ...
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Papers About electromagnetism [duplicate]

What papers by people who developed electromagnetism are worth reading to help understand their original thoughts?
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Bibliography for the Quantization of the free electromagnetic field with the Lorenz gauge

Recently I have been studying QFT and when I arrived at the Gauge theory I learned that one can quantize the electromagnetic field with the Coulomb gauge and the Lorenz gauge. Regarding the Coulomb, I ...
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Book Recommendation: One that has a lot of problems and theory associated with polar coordinates and spherical polar coordinates [closed]

I would like to "master" polar coordinates and spherical polar coordinates. In the sense, I would like to become as well versed with them as I am with cartesian coordinates. I have gone ...
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Multipole expansion of the electromagnetic field

In Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics, section 9.7, he develops the multipole expansion of the electromagnetic fields in terms of the vector spherical harmonics and the spherical Bessel and Hankel ...
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Where can I get an introduction to the mathematics behind Hofstadter's Butterfly?

Are there any good books that give good mathematical/physical background to the workings of the Hofstadter's Butterfly? I'd appreciate some references. Books or Public access papers will work. ...
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Books on electrodynamics of continuous media

There is a classical textbook "Electrodynamics of continuous media" by Landau-Lifschitz. To my taste, this book does not give enough details on general material, but rather focuses on ...
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Good resources for revision/learning of classical mechanics and electrodynamics [duplicate]

I am a first year PhD student in Physics. My M.Sc classes were all online due to covid and I did pretty bad in managing classes. Thus my electrodynamics knowledge is effectively upto B.Sc level(say ...
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Recommendation books on graduate level vector analysis and field analysis with application of electrodynamics?

I am currently a physics and mathematics double major graduate student. Looking for a text book and problem sets on the topic of vector field analysis, would be best if the book is advanced and ...
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Resource recommendation on Macroscopic electromagnetism

I would like to know about all books, papers, articles, heck at this point even rock engravings, to thoroughly understand the process of averaging microscopic equations to arrive at macroscopic ...
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Reference for dual gauge field and magnetic field being canonically conjugate

The gauge field operator in quantum Yang-Mills is canonically conjugate to the electric field. I know that the dual gauge field is canonically conjugate to the magnetic field, but I can't seem to dig ...
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Light deflection by inhomogeneous electric fields

This is a screenshot of the Noble Prize organization website on the biography of the Noble laureate Johannes Stark. And this is what I found worthy to ask about his work. In the last lines of his ...
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Electromagnetism textbook [duplicate]

I'm in the market for a textbook dealing with classical electromagnetism for someone who already knows the basics (e.g. up to the derivation of the Maxwell equations and the basic expressions for ...
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Electromagnetism for finite element simulations

I want to learn about electromagnetism, as I will need to run (time dependent) finite element simulations regarding electrical motors for my job. I only had one course in EM a long time ago, and I can ...

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