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A lot of this book is about electromagnetism, carrying out calculations with rather standard bits of Maxwell’s theory. This is why we begin with an overview of the main results used later. The aim is not to produce a textbook account, with complete proofs and explanations, only to exhibit the sequence of results a reader would need to know in order to follow the rest and fill in some of the more apposite details. To help things along, and make it easier for someone to pick up what is required, the overview given in this chapter is largely based on the account in The Feynman Lectures on Physics, by Feynman, Leighton, and Sands [1, 2]. The discussion in these books is remarkable anyway, and strongly recommended to anyone who does not know it.
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Lyle, S.N. (2010). Some Notions of Electromagnetism. In: Self-Force and Inertia. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 796. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04785-5_2
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