Offers an introduction to concepts in electricity and magnetism and related topics for advanced chemistry students

Assumes very little background physics knowledge beyond basic concepts

Takes the reader from foundational material through to more advanced topics of relevance to research in chemical physics and physical chemistry

James K. Baird is Professor of Chemistry and Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA. He received the B.S. in Chemistry (summa cum Laude) from Yale University in 1963. He then entered Harvard University, where he received the A.M. in physics in 1965 and the Ph.D. in chemical physics in 1969. His dissertation advisor was Professor Norman F. Ramsey, the 1989 Nobel Laureate in Physics. After serving in the US Army as a Captain from 1969 to 1970, he joined the Health Physics Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  He left Oak Ridge in 1981 to become Manager of Radiochemistry at the General Electric Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Schenectady, NY. He joined the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 1982, subsequently serving three terms as Chairman of the Chemistry Department. In 1990, he was awarded the Charles H. Stone Award for Research by the Carolina-Piedmont Section of the American Chemical Society. He has been a research fellow atthe Naval Research Laboratory, Air Force Research Laboratory, and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. He was twice Visiting Professor of Chemistry at Yale University.