Background
He was born in Bologoye, Russia. His father was a railroad construction engineer and one of his grandfathers was a general.
( Intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate studen...)
Intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this well-known and popular textbook provides an introduction to the physical principles, mathematical apparatus, and typical applications of classical electromagnetic theory. Beginning with the notion of scalar fields, Professor Rojansky leads the student through vectors and vector fields, the laws of Ohm, Joule, Coulomb, and Faraday, static electricity, and continues all the way to Maxwell's equations for bodies at rest, and to examples of electromagnetic waves. A particularly useful feature of the book is the author's introduction and explanation of the necessary mathematics as he goes along, rather than presuming student understanding. Although an extensive background is not necessary, a general knowledge of physics and calculus is a prerequisite. Throughout the book, the development of each topic is explicit and unhurried, an approach intended to avoid basic misconceptions that lead to major misunderstandings later on. Short exercises help the student test his grasp of the material, and the text is studded with diagrams and illustrations that supplement the content and elucidate many hard-to-visualize concepts. The book ends at a point where the use of Maxwell's equations in several important problems has been illustrated, and students are prepared to proceed to a variety of further topics. Professor Rojansky brings many years of experience both as a teacher and a scientist (including ten years of advanced research at TRW Space Technologies Laboratories) to this lucid discussion of the fundamentals of electromagnetic fields and waves. His extensive pedagogical background enables him to communicate difficult concepts with great clarity.
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He was born in Bologoye, Russia. His father was a railroad construction engineer and one of his grandfathers was a general.
He was graduated from Whitman College in 1924, from the University of Oregon (Master of Arts 1925), and from the University of Minnesota (Doctor of Philosophy 1928).
At the outbreak of the Russian Civil War (August 8, 1918) he enlisted in the dragoons of the White Army. Within a month he was wounded in action and was hospitalized until the end of January. During the war his regiment retreated across Siberia to the Far Eastern Republic.
There he was discharged as an officer in April 1921.
That year he crossed the Pacific to America. His thesis was one of the first to employ the modern form of quantum mechanics.
In 1938 he published Introductory Quantum Mechanics, one of the earliest textbooks on the subject. He taught at Washington University (1928-1930), Union College (1930-1955), and Harvey Mudd College (1965-1972).
From 1955 to 1965 he worked in the aerospace industry, first at the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation and later at the Space Technology Laboratories of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge.
In a 1935 paper, Rojansky coined the terms "terrene" and "contraterrene" to describe, respectively, ordinary matter and the substance now commonly known as "antimatter,"in which "atoms consist of negative nuclei surrounded by positrons."
In a subsequent paper, he speculated that some comets may consist of antimatter.
This suggestion was embraced by some meteorite specialists, and also found its way into science fiction stories. His digestion never recovered from his war wounds.
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