TABLE OF CONTENTS Throughout this book, you have not been subjected to footnotes, references, and various distractions. You may have wondered where to find more information, get alternate explanations, and find out about some of the unnamed sources. This appendix is the answer, as it is partly a list of references and partly a set of reviews. To some extent, it is ordered. That is, more important books and papers tend to come earlier. The list is not exhaustive, and the venerable old tome your alma mater used may not be included.
This book by Richard Becker truly classifies as a venerable old tome. If it was not used at your alma mater, it should have been. It is the correct starting place for anyone who wants to actually understand field theory. When Maxwell published his equations, very few people, even engineers, understood what he was talking about. So, in 1894, August Foppl wrote a detailed explanation. Over the years, that explanation was expanded and refined by various authors. It was the standard work on the subject. In 1930, with its eighth edition, Richard Becker took over the job of keeping the work current. At Becker's death, the book was in its sixteenth edition. This book, Electromagnetic Fields and Interactions, is the 1964 edition of that work. It could well be the best book ever written to explain Maxwell's equations.
The book starts with fundamental mathematical definitions vectors, components of vectors things at that level. It proceeds through how and...
