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Major sources

The textbooks which I have consulted most frequently whilst developing course material are:
Classical electrodynamics:
J.D. Jackson, 2nd edition (John Wiley & Sons, New York NY, 1975).
Classical electricity and magnetism:
W.K. Panofsky and M. Phillips, 2nd edition, (Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 1962).
Special relativity:
W. Rindler, 2nd edition (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburg and London, 1966).
Foundations of electromagnetic theory:
J.R. Reitz and F.J. Milford, 2nd edition (Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 1967).
Lectures on theoretical physics:
A. Sommerfeld, (Academic Press, New York, 1954).
Wave propagation and group velocity:
Léon Brillouin, (Academic Press, New York NY, 1960).
Methods of theoretical physics:
P.M. Morse and H. Feshbach, (McGraw-Hill, New York NY, 1953).
An introduction to phase-integral methods:
J. Heading, (Meuthen & Co., London, 1962).
Radio waves in the ionosphere:
K.G. Budden, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1961).
Classical electromagnetic radiation:
M.A. Heald and J.B. Marion, 3rd edition (Saunders College Publishing, Fort Worth TX, 1995).



Richard Fitzpatrick 2002-05-18