polarisation currents, 90 polarisation potential, 105 polarisation vector, 105 positive definite, 58 positive definite norm, 55 potential energy, 77, 176 potential theory, 106 power flux, 93
Poynting vector, 93 Poynting's theorem, 92 Proca Lagrangian, 85 propagator, 39
proper time, 56 pseudoscalar, 159 pseudoscalars, 170 pseudotensor, 159 pseudotensors, 170 pseudovector, 65, 159, 170
quadratic differential form, 56, 167 quantum mechanical nonlinearity, 3
radiation field, 46, 49, 118 radiation fields, 97 radiation gauge, 38 radiation resistance, 103 radius four-vector, 53 radius vector, 159
raising of index, 164 rank, 162
rapidity, 60 refractive index, 140
relative electric permittivity, 94 relative magnetic permeability, 94 relative permeability, 140 relative permittivity, 140 Relativity principle, 51 relaxation time, 25
rest mass density, 81 retarded Coulomb field, 49
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retarded potentials, 41 retarded relative distance, 113 retarded time, 41 Riemannian metric, 56 Riemannian space, 54, 160 row vector, 159
scalar, 159, 173 scalar field, 57, 161 scalar product, 167 shock front, 144 signature, 54
simultaneous coordinate, 121 skew-symmetric, 66
skin depth, 30 source point, 3
space components, 55 space-like interval, 56 space-time, 55
special theory of relativity, 51 spherical Bessel function of the first
kind, 106
spherical Hankel function of the first kind, 106
spherical waves, 99 super-potential, 105 synchrotron radiation, 134, 137
synchrotron radiation lobe width, 135
telegrapher's equation, 27, 140 temporal dispersive media, 10 temporal gauge, 38
tensor, 159
tensor contraction, 164 tensor field, 162 tensor notation, 163 tensor product, 169
three-dimensional functional derivative, 79
time component, 55
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