文档介绍：CLASSICAL FIELD THEORY
CLASSICAL FIELD
THEORY
ISM AND
GRAVITATION
Francis E. Low
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Contents
Preface ix
1. Electrostatics 1
. Coulomb’s Law, 1
. Multipoles and Multipole Fields, 9
. Energy and Stress in the Electrostatic Field, 12
. Electrostat