Theory of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation (Dover Books on Physics) by Charles Herach Papas (PDF)

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While there are so many books on general electromagnetic theory for graduate-level students, there are significantly fewer that concentrate on the radiation aspects as does this well-known work. Interfacing physics and electrical engineering, Dr. Papas’s clearly written text discusses highly important topics in the theory of electromagnetic wave propagation and antennas in a way that reveals the inherent simplicity of the basic ideas and their logical development from the Maxwell field equation.Chapter 1: Maxwell’s field equations and those parts of electromagnetic field theory necessary for understanding the remainder of the book.Chapter 2: How the dyadic Green’s function can be used to compute radiation from monochromatic sources.Chapter 3: Problems of radiation emitted by wire antennas and antenna arrays from the viewpoint of analysis and synthesis.Chapter 4: Two methods of expanding a radiation field in multiples — one based on the Taylor expansion of the Helmholtz integrals and the other, on all expansion in spherical waves.Chapter 5: Wave aspects of radio-astronomical antenna theory.Chapter 6: Theory of electromagnetic wave propagation in a plasma medium describing the behavior of an antenna immersed in such a medium.Chapter 7: Covariance of Maxwell’s equations in material media and its application to phenomena such as the Doppler effect.By unifying various topics under the single mantle of electromagnetic theory, Professor Papas has made the contents of this book easy to learn and convenient to teach. In addition, the book assembles much data previously available only in scattered research literature. The result is a superb graduate-level text that can also lend itself to self-instruction by researchers.

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⭐”Theory of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation” by Charles H. Papas is an extremely fine but relatively little known text on several important topics in electromagnetics: 1) the electromagnetic field, 2) radiation from monochromatic sources in unbounded regions, 3) radiation from wire antennas, 4) multipole expansion of the radiated field, 4) radio-astronomical antennas, 6) electromagnetic waves in a plasma, and 7) the Doppler effect. Papas’ presentation of all these topics is very lucid. It is not a general textbook on electromagnetics but there is much to be learned from the book by anyone interested in the topics with which it deals. My own particular interest in the book was in the area of multipole expansions where I found Papas’ presentation unequaled by any of the standard texts such as Jackson.

⭐This books is full of tough mathematics and hard to read intuitively. I don’t recommend it as a textbook.

⭐Although this book was written by a professor of electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology, it is not at all a book for the practical design engineer. Instead, it is an elegant analysis of antenna radiation and the associated problems of electromagnetic propagation in a plasma and the Doppler effect. It will appeal to every applied physicist.

⭐In reading and lecturing from Theory of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation by C.H. Papas, I have found it to be the best modern textbook on the subject. Papas explains difficult ideas simply and concisely so one obtains an understanding without the usual grinding. This text has the elegance of Stratton and the thoroughness of Smythe or Kong.

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