Electromagnetic processes in dispersive media : a treatment based on the dielectric tensor

Part I. Electromagnetic Fields in Vacuo: 1. Electromagnetic fields 2. Cartesian tensors 3. The stress tensor and multipole moments 4. Fourier transforms 5. Greens functions Part II. The Electromagnetic Responses of Media: 6. The response of a medium 7. General properties of response tensors 8. Analytic properties of response functions 9. Response tensors for some idealized media 10. Response tensors for plasmas Part III. Wave Properties: 11. Dispersion relations and polarization vectors 12. Waves in dielectrics and anisotropic crystals 13. Waves in plasmas 14. The polarization of transverse waves 15. Energetics and damping of waves Part IV. Theory of Emission Processes: 16. The emission formula 17. Emission by multipoles 18. The Larmor formula 19. Alternative treatment of emission processes Part V. Specific Emission Processes: 20. Cerenkov emission 21. Bremsstrahlung 22. Formal theory of gyromagnetic emission 23. Gyroemission by mildly relativistic electrons 24. Synchrotron emission 25. Scattering of waves by particles 26. Nonlinear emission processes Bibliographic notes Glossary of symbols Index.