Geophysical field theory and method, Part B, Electromagnetic fields /

This book contains information about the theory of electromagnetic fields in conducting mediums. It describes the theoretical foundation of electromagnetic methods used in all areas of exploration geophysics, including a study of the earth's deep layers. This book will be useful for research an...

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Main Authors: Kaufman, Alexander A., 1931- (Author)
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: San Diego :
Publication Dates: 1994.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: International geophysics series ; v. 49, pt. B
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/00746142/49/part/PB
Summary: This book contains information about the theory of electromagnetic fields in conducting mediums. It describes the theoretical foundation of electromagnetic methods used in all areas of exploration geophysics, including a study of the earth's deep layers. This book will be useful for research and exploration geophysicists, electronic engineers, and graduate and undergraduate students in university geophysics departments. . Electromagnetic fields in conducting media . Physical principles of electromagnetic methods applied in geophysics . Relationship between electromagnetic fields and parameters of a medium.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780080959931
0080959938
Index Number: QC173
CLC: O412.3
Contents: Chapter I: Electromagnetic Fields: -- I.1 Faradays Law. -- I.2 The Principle of Charge Conservation and Distribution of Charges in a Conducting and Polarizable Medium. -- I.3 Displacement Currents. -- I.4 The System of Equations of the Electromagnetic Field. -- I.5 Equations for the Fields E and B; Electromagnetic Potentials. -- I.6 Propagation of the Electromagnetic Field in a Nonconducting Medium. -- I.7 Quasistationary Field in a Nonconducting Medium. -- I.8 Quasistationary Field in a Conducting Medium; Skin Effect. -- I.9 Diffusion of a Quasistationary Field. -- I.10 Diffusion and Periodic Quasistationary Fields. -- I.11 Distribution of the Electromagnetic Energy; Poynting Vector. -- I.12 Determination of Electromagnetic Fields. I.13 Relationships between Different Responses of the Electromagnetic Field. -- Chapter 2: The Magnetic Dipole in a Uniform Medium -- II. 1 Frequency Responses of the Field Caused by the Magnetic Dipole. -- II. 2 The Transient Responses of the Field Caused by a Magnetic Dipole.