Modern Problems in Classical Electrodynamics

Charles A. Brau received his B.A. in Engineering from Cornell University and his M.A. (in Engineering) and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University. In the course of his career, he has been a theorist, an experimenter, a manager, and currently a professor of physics at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He focuses his research on free-electron lasers (FEL) and electron beams. He became a program manager of the FEL program at Los Alamos National Laboratory and then a director of the FEL Center at Vanderbilt University. In 1988 he was a visiting scientist in the Department of Nuclear Physics at the University of Oxford in England. He is an author of 7 patents and numerous publications, including 2 books. He is also a fellow of American Physical Society.

• 1. Relativistic kinematics ; 2. Relativistic mechanics and field theory ; 3. Time-independent electromagnetic fields ; 4. Electromagnetic waves ; 5. Fourier techniques and virtual quanta ; 6. Macroscopic materials ; 7. Linear, dispersive media ; 8. Nonlinear optics ; 9. Diffraction ; 10. Radiation by relativistic particles ; 11. Fundamental particles in classical electrodynamics ; Appendix: Units and dimensions