Radiation and Optics

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By J. M. Stone London: McGraw Hill. 1963. Pp. xvi + 544. Price 91s. The author sets out to cover the main part of the classical theory of radiation and optics and to describe the phenomena in terms of the Lorentz theory of electrons. He rightly justifies this, saying that the Lorentz theory, indispensable as a working tool, provides not only the foundations of classical optics, but the necessary background for quantum mechanical description; not even the pressures engendered by the need to include in undergraduate and graduate courses ever more and more recent topics, can excuse neglect of the fundamental principles of electromagnetic theory as laid down by Maxwell and adapted by Lorentz.

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