Electric, Optic, and Acoustic Interactions in Dielectrics

Treats a broad segment of the macroscopic physics of dielectrics by a first principles, unified, deductive method. Beginning from a discrete particle point of view, the author constructs a continuum Lagrangian of a dialectric crystal of arbitrary symmetry, structural complexity, and nonlinearity in interaction with the elctromagnetic field. All long wavelength modes of motion of the crystal, both optic and acoustic modes, are accounted for. Once the Lagrangian has been constructed, the remainder of the book is deductively obtained from it.