Ginzburg V.L. Applications of Electrodynamics in Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics

Gordon and Breach Science Publishers (CRC Press), 1989. — 486 p. — ISBN: 2881247199.This book, revised from the third Russian editfon, is a specially written text based on a lecture course for students in the Physics and Astrophysics Department of the Moscow Physico-Technical Institute.
It is not intended as a systematic course book, but rather as a supplementary text to the standard course books on theoretical physics and astrophysics, such as the famous 8 volume course written by L. Landau and E. Lifshits. As such, it addresses selected problems in theoretical physics and astrophysics, most of which are to a greater or lesser extent associated with electrodynamics.
Additions since the publication of the first edition include a special chapter on the theory of transition radiation and transition scattering and also a discussion of the problem of toroidal dipole moments, which as far as the author knows, is not even mentioned in any university textbook. Also, misprints have been corrected and the reference list altered: some substitutions and many additions have been made. It should be noted that although the reference list is quite extensive and updated to 1989, it is not exhaustive and is intended as an aid to orient the reader and aimed at providing the required minimum of initial information on literature in the field. Therefore, some of the papers quoted are not definitive and appear in the list only because they were at hand, while some pioneering studies, significant reviews and monographs, are not
listed. Any other approach would hardly be feasible since the range of problems discussed in the book is fairly large and the number of publications in these fields is enormous. A more complete reference list can now be provided only in reviews or monographs covering a narrow field or in special bibliographical or historical works.The Hamiltonian Approach to Electrodynamics
Radiation Reaction
Uniformly Accelerated Charges
Radiation Emitted by Relativistic and Non-relativistic
Moving Particles
Synchrotron Radiation
Electrodynamics of a Continuous Medium
The Cerenkov and Doppler Effects
Transition Radiation and Transition Scattering
Superluminal Sources of Radiation
Reabsorption and Transfer of Radiation
Electrodynamics of Media with Spatial Dispersion
Permittivity and Wave Propagation in Plasmas
The Energy-Momentum Tensor and Forces in
Macroscopic Electrodynamics. Energy and Heat
Liberated in a Dispersive Absorbing Medium
Fluctuations and van der Waals Forces
Wave Scattering in a Medium
Astrophysics of Cosmic Rays
X-Ray Astronomy
Gamma-Ray Astronomy