文档介绍：Compendium of Theoretical Physics
Armin Wachter Henning Hoeber
Compendium of Theoretical
Physics
Armin Wachter Henning Hoeber
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Acknowledgements
We’d like to thank the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, where a large
part of the electrodynamics chapter was written, for its kind support. (Where
better than in Aberdeen to write about electrodynamics?) Thanks to Klaus
K¨ampf for his donation of textbooks; to our colleagues, as well as students, at
the Bergische Universit¨at Wuppertal and the H¨ochstleistungsrechenzentrum
J¨ulich (now John von Neumann Institute) for many discussions and sugges-
tions; to the Pallas GmbH and pagnie G´en´eraledeG´eophysique for
their kind support in the final phases of our writing this book.
This translation is based on the 2nd edition of the German book, pub-
lished in 2004, which has undergone a thorough r