Intro
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Contents
1 Basics of Electrostatics
1.1 Overlapping Charged Spheres
1.2 Charged Sphere with Internal Spherical Cavity
1.3 Energy of a Charged Sphere
1.4 Plasma Oscillations
1.5 Mie Oscillations
1.6 Coulomb Explosions
1.7 Plane and Cylindrical Coulomb Explosions
1.8 Collision of Two Charged Spheres
1.9 Oscillations in a Positively Charged Conducting Sphere
1.10 Interaction Between a Point Charge and an Electric Dipole
1.11 Electric Field of a Charged Hemispherical Surface

1.12 The Electric Field of an Array of Charged Wires (1)
1.13 The Electric Field of an Array of Charged Wires (2)
1.14 Mean Value Property and the Force on a Spherical Charge
References
2 Electrostatics of Conductors
2.1 Metal Sphere in an External Field
2.2 Electrostatic Energy with Image Charges
2.3 Fields Generated by Surface Charge Densities
2.4 A Point Charge in Front of a Conducting Sphere
2.5 Dipoles and Spheres
2.6 Coulomb's Experiment
2.7 A Solution Looking for a Problem
2.8 Electrically Connected Spheres
2.9 A Charge Inside a Conducting Shell

2.10 A Charged Wire in Front of a Cylindrical Conductor
2.11 Hemispherical Conducting Surfaces
2.12 The Force Between the Plates of a Capacitor
2.13 Electrostatic Pressure on a Conducting Sphere
2.14 Conducting Prolate Ellipsoid
2.15 A Non-coaxial Cylindrical Capacitor
2.16 Induced Charge Density on a Conducting Plane
2.17 Charge Density on a Metal Sphere in Front of a Point Charge
3 Electrostatics of Dielectric Media
3.1 An Artificial Dielectric
3.2 Charge in Front of a Dielectric Half-Space
3.3 An Electrically Polarized Sphere

3.4 Dielectric Sphere in an External Field
3.5 Refraction of the Electric Field at a Dielectric Boundary
3.6 Contact Force Between a Conductor and a Dielectric
3.7 A Conducting Sphere Between Two Dielectrics
3.8 Measuring the Dielectric Constant of a Liquid
3.9 A Conducting Cylinder in a Dielectric Liquid
3.10 A Dielectric Slab in Contact with a Charged Conductor
3.11 A Transversally Polarized Cylinder
3.12 Force Between a Parallel-Plate Capacitor and a Dielectric Slab
3.13 A Cylindrical Quadrupole
Reference
4 Electric Currents

4.1 The Tolman-Stewart Experiment
4.2 Charge Relaxation in a Conducting Sphere
4.3 A Coaxial Resistor
4.4 Electrical Resistance Between Two Submerged Spheres (1)
4.5 Electrical Resistance Between Two Submerged Spheres (2)
4.6 Effects of Non-uniform Resistivity
4.7 Charge Decay in a Lossy Spherical Capacitor
4.8 Dielectric-Barrier Discharge
4.9 Charge Distribution in a Long Cylindrical Conductor
4.10 An Infinite Resistor Ladder
References
5 Magnetostatics
5.1 The Rowland Experiment
5.2 Pinch Effect in a Cylindrical Wire