This book evolved from the first term of a two-term course on the physics of charged particle acceleration that I taught at the University of New Mexico and at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The first term covered conventional accelerators in the single particle limit. The second term covered collective effects in charged particle beams, including high current transport and instabilities. The material was selected to make the course accessible to graduate students in physics and electrical engineering with no previous background in accelerator theory. Nonetheless, I sought to make the course relevant to accelerator researchers by including complete derivations and essential formulas
