此书是世界图书出版公司出版的9卷本“泡利物理学讲义”中的第1卷，主题为电动力学。沃尔夫冈·泡利是20世纪**的理论物理学家，1945年诺贝尔物理学奖得主，他在原子物理学和量子力学领域做出了重要贡献，发现了“泡利不相容原理”，建立了“中微子”假说，提出了二分量波函数的概念和**的泡利自旋矩阵，并在量子场论、固体物理等领域都做了很多杰出的工作。泡利去世后，他晚年的助手查尔斯·恩斯教授编辑修订了他生前在苏黎世联邦理工学院的授课讲义的英文版，分6卷，分别为《电动力学》《光学和电子论》《热力学和气体分子运动论》《统计力学》《波动力学》和《场量子化选讲》，英文版由The MIT Press出版。泡利年轻的时候还写过两篇重要的长达数百页的综述长文《相对论》和《量子力学的普遍原理》，直至**仍是相对论与量子力学领域重要的经典文献。1921年，泡利为德国的《数学科学百科全书》撰写了关于相对论的长篇综述文章，爱因斯坦阅读后评价道：“任何该领域的专家都不会相信，该文出自一个年仅21岁的青年人之手，作者在文中显示出来的对这个领域的理解力、熟练的数学推导能力、对物理深刻的洞察力、使问题明晰的能力、系统的表述、对

Foreword by Victor F. Weisskopf Preface by the Editor Survey of the Historical Development and the Current Problems of Electrodynamics Part 1. Electrostatics and Magnetostatics Coulomb's Law The Field of Point Charges Volume and Surface Charge Distributions Energy of the Electrostatic Field Example: Charge Distributions with Spherical Symmetry Proof of the Equivalence of the Electrostatic Field Equations with Coulomb's Law Dielectrics, Phenomenological Treatment Electron Theory Interpretation of Dielectric Phenomena The Potential Problem Curvilinear Coordinates Examples of Solutions of the Potential Problem Magnetostatics Units and Dimensions Part 2. Steady-State Currents Theory of Steady-State Currents The Magnetic Fields of Steady-State Currents The Equivalence of the Magnetic Field Due to Closed Current Loops with that Due to a Distribution of Magnetic Dipoles Ponderomotive Forces The Principle of Action and Reaction for Electric and Magnetic Forces. The Maxwell Stress Tensors Part 3. Quasi-Static Fields Faraday's Law of Induction The Energy of Current Systems Time-Dependent Current Flow in Circuits The Skin Effect The Law of Induction for Moving Conductors Part 4. Rapidly Varying Fields The Maxwell Equations Electromagnetic Waves in Vacuum Conservation of Energy and Momentum Electromagnetic Waves in Material Media Radiation of Electromagnetic Waves The Field of a Point Charge in Uniform Motion Radiation Damping Bibliography Appendix. Comments by the Editor Index