Maxwell's equations

Maxwell's equations are the set of four equations, attributed to James Clerk Maxwell (written by Oliver Heaviside), that describe the behavior of both the electric and magnetic fields, as well as their interactions with matter.

References

Journal articles

• James Clerk Maxwell, "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 155, 459-512 (1865). (This article accompanied a December 8, 1864 presentation by Maxwell to the Royal Society.)

University level textbooks

Undergraduate

• {{Book reference | Author=Griffiths, David J.|Title=Introduction to Electrodynamics (3rd ed.)| Publisher=Prentice Hall |Year=1998 |ID=ISBN 013805326X}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Tipler, Paul | Title=Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Electricity, Magnetism, Light, and Elementary Modern Physics (5th ed.) | Publisher=W. H. Freeman | Year=2004 | ID=ISBN 0716708108}}
• Edward M. Purcell, Electricity and Magnetism (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1985).
• Banesh Hoffman, Relativity and Its Roots (Freeman, New York, 1983).
• Charles F. Stevens, The Six Core Theories of Modern Physics, (MIT Press, 1995) ISBN 0-262-69188-4.

Graduate

• {{Book reference |Author=Jackson, John D.|Title=Classical Electrodynamics (3rd ed.)|Publisher=Wiley|Year=1998|ID=ISBN 047130932X}}
• Landau, L. D., The Classical Theory of Fields (Course of Theoretical Physics: Volume 2), (Butterworth-Heinemann: Oxford, 1987).
• {{Book reference | Author=Maxwell, James C. | Title=A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism | Publisher=Dover | Year=1954 | ID=ISBN 0486606376}}
• Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation, (1970) W.H. Freeman, New York; ISBN 0-7167-0344-0. (Provides a treatment of Maxwell's equations in terms of differential forms.)