MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Science Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Classical
field theory
Synopsis This is the same topic as is given in PHS4000 and may be taken
in either third or fourth year. Variational principles for fields. Lagrangian
formulation of classical fields. Energy-momentum tensors and conservation
theorems. Hamiltonian formulation of the field equations. Canonical
transformation theory for fields. Classical field theory. Introduction to the
quantised Maxwell field.
Prescribed text
- Barut A O Electrodynamics and classical theory of fields and particles
Dover, 1980
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