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  title info:
    title: Electromagnetism for chemistry
  name:
    name part: Baird, James K.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 630 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: This textbook presents an introduction to electromagnetism intended for undergraduate and graduate students in chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, and related areas. The book requires no pre-existing knowledge of physics beyond Coulomb's Law and the idea that electric currents serve as the source of magnetic fields. Only mathematics up through vector calculus is assumed. As a supplement to these basic concepts, there is an extensive appendix with clear explanations of the theorems and mathematical methods of electromagnetism that go beyond the vector calculus. Each equation in the text and in the appendix is derived with no details left out. The book is divided into two sections; the first covers electrostatics while the second covers electrodynamics. The first section introduces the theory of charges and electric dipoles with illustrations of their application to the properties of dielectrics, colloids, polymers, and electrolyte solutions. The second section introduces Maxwell's equations and covers electromagnetic waves, light scattering, X-ray diffraction, spectroscopy, optical rotation, and the dispersive intermolecular forces, including Forster resonance energy transfer and the Hamaker force. In order to make the application of the theory of electromagnetism to chemistry complete, the book includes stand-alone chapters covering the relevant parts of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, classical mechanics, and quantum mechanics. The combination of clarity of presentation and careful attention to pedological detail serves to recommend the book as a source for self-study to students and also practicing physical chemists, who may need to refresh their memory of the various details of electromagnetism.
  table of contents: Electrostatics -- Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics -- Continuum Theory of Dielectrics -- Molecular Theory of Non-Polar Dielectrics -- Plasmas and the Poisson - Boltzmann Equation -- Debye-Hückel Theory of Strong Electrolytes -- Electromagnetic Waves -- Light Scattering -- X-Ray Diffraction from Crystals -- Classical Mechanics and the Electromagnetic Field -- Quantum Mechanics -- Semiclassical Theory of the Interaction of Radiation with Matter -- Optical Rotation -- Dispersion Forces.
  note: James K. Baird.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Electromagnetism
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
  subject:
    topic: Électromagnétisme
  subject:
    topic: Chimie physique et théorique
  subject:
    topic: electromagnetism
  subject:
    topic: physical chemistry
  classification: QC760 .B35 2026
  classification: 537
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1500825231
  identifier: 9783031885082 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 3031885082
  identifier: 9783031885075
  identifier: 3031885074
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: GW5XE
    record creation date: 260619
    record change date: 20260801173427.0
    record identifier: in00005789478
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng