ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION, VARIATIONAL METHODS, WAVEGUIDES AND ACCELERATORS by Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger ( 9783540292234 )

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Title:

ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION, VARIATIONAL METHODS, WAVEGUIDES AND ACCELERATORS
INCLUDING SEMINAL PAPERS OF JULIAN SCHWINGER

By:

Kimball A. Milton, Julian Schwinger

Format:

Hardback

List price:	£149.99
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ISBN 10:

3540292233

ISBN 13:

9783540292234

Publisher:

SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN AND HEIDELBERG GMBH & CO. KG

Pub. date:

20 April, 2006

Series:

Particle Acceleration and Detection

Pages:

590

Description:

Summarizes Julian Schwinger's work on the theory of electromagnetic radiation and its application to waveguides, transmission lines, accelerator physics, and synchrotron radiation. This volume is of interest to physicists, electrical engineers, and applied mathematicians.

Synopsis:

Julian Schwinger was already the world's leading nuclear theorist when he joined the Radiation Laboratory at MIT in 1943, at the ripe age of 25. Just 2 years earlier he had joined the faculty at Purdue, after a postdoc with OppenheimerinBerkeley,andgraduatestudyatColumbia. Anearlysemester at Wisconsin had con?rmed his penchant to work at night, so as not to have to interact with Breit and Wigner there. He was to perfect his iconoclastic 1 habits in his more than 2 years at the Rad Lab. Despite its deliberately misleading name, the Rad Lab was not involved in nuclear physics, which was imagined then by the educated public as a esoteric science without possible military application. Rather, the subject at hand was the perfection of radar, the beaming and re?ection of microwaves which had already saved Britain from the German onslaught. Here was a technology which won the war, rather than one that prematurely ended it, at a still incalculable cost. It was partly for that reason that Schwinger joined this e?ort, rather than what might have appeared to be the more natural project for his awesome talents, the development of nuclear weapons at Los Alamos.He had got a bit of a taste of that at the "Metallurgical Laboratory" in Chicago, and did not much like it. Perhaps more important for his decision to go to and stay at MIT during the war was its less regimented and isolated environment.

Illustrations:

66 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white tables, biography

Publication:

Germany

Imprint:

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K

Returns:

Returnable

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