Electrostatic Field.- Field of Stationary Currents.- Electromagnetic Field.- Electromagnetic Waves.- Elements of Magnetofluid Dynamics.- Special Relativity.- Minkowski Space.- Relativistic Formulation of Electrodynamics in Minkowski Space.- General Theory of Relativity.- Appendix.
About the Author: Masud Chaichian: Editor journal EPJ C, very prominent scientist in high energy physics.
Previous affiliations: Durham Univ, UK; Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK; Hamburg Univ, Germany;
Weizmann Institute, Israel; CERN.
Scientific interests: Quantum Field Theory, Noncommutative geometry, String theory,
Higher-Dimensional Theories
Teaching: Over 20 years experience in teaching Theories of Elementary Particle Physics, Path
Integrals, Theoretical physics
261 publications in SPIRES.
Address:
High Energy Physics Division
Department of Physical Sciences and Helsinki Institute of Physics
POB 64 (Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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