78-XX Optics, electromagnetic theory {For quantum optics, see 81V80}
78-00 General reference works (handbooks, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc.)
78-01 Instructional exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.)
78-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles)
78-03 Historical {!must also be assigned at least one classification number from section 01}
78-04 Explicit machine computation and programs (not the theory of computation or programming)
78-05 Experimental work
78-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc.
78Axx General
78A02 Foundations
78A05 Geometric optics
78A10 Physical optics
78A15 Electron optics
78A20 Space charge waves
78A25 Electromagnetic theory, general
78A30 Electro- and magnetostatics
78A35 Motion of charged particles
78A40 Waves and radiation
78A45 Diffraction, scattering [See also 34E20 for WKB methods]
78A50 Antennas, wave-guides
78A55 Technical applications
78A60 Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics [See also 81V80]
78A70 Biological applications [See also 92C30, 91D30]
78A97 Mathematically heuristic optics and electromagnetic theory {!must also be assigned at least one other classification number in this section}
78A99 Miscellaneous topics
78Mxx Basic methods
78M05 Method of moments
78M10 Finite element methods
78M15 Boundary element methods
78M20 Finite difference methods
78M25 Other numerical methods
78M30 Variational methods
78M35 Asymptotic analysis
78M40 Homogenization
78M50 Optimization
78M99 None of the above, but in this section