This title provides an up-to-date account of the basic principles of dielectrics. It is ideal for advanced undergraduates and graduates in the field, and includes the authoritative coverage needed to develop an understanding of the macroscopic behavior of dielectric materials. Readers will find full derivations of many important formulas as well as a useful listing of references and further readings.

This fourth and final volume of The Collected Papers of Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) contains three previously unpublished and important manuscripts, namely, System of Rays and two lengthy letters to de Morgan on definite integrals and Hart on anharmonic coordinates. In addition, the volume contains reprinted papers on geometry, analysis, astronomy, probability, and finite differences, as well as a collection of papers on other topics. A cumulative index for all three volumes is provided, as well as a CD-ROM with all four volumes of the Collected Papers.