Overview
This book deals with the reflection of electromagnetic and particle waves by interfaces. The interfaces can be sharp or diffuse. The topics of the book contain absorption, inverse problems, anisotropy, pulses and finite beams, rough surfaces, matrix methods, numerical methods, reflection of particle waves and neutron reflection. Exact general results are presented, followed by long wave reflection, variational theory, reflection amplitude equations of the Riccati type, and reflection of short waves. The Second Edition of the Theory of Reflection is an updated and much enlarged revision of the 1987 monograph. There are new chapters on periodically stratified media, ellipsometry, chiral media, neutron reflection and reflection of acoustic waves. The chapter on anisotropy is much extended, with a complete treatment of the reflection and transmission properties of arbitrarily oriented uniaxial crystals. The book gives a systematic and unified treatment reflection and transmission of electromagnetic and particle waves at interfaces. It is intended for physicists, chemists, applied mathematicians and engineers, and is written in a simple direct style, with all necessary mathematics explained in the text.
Full Product Details
Author: John Lekner
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2016
Volume: 87
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.836kg
ISBN: 9783319795126
ISBN 10: 3319795120
Pages: 538
Publication Date: 30 March 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
The book is didactically well written and can serve as a useful literature for professionals as well as for graduate students in the considered fields. ... The appendix contains useful formulae for various quantities typically encountered in the wave transmission and reflection analyses. (Vladimir Cadez, zbMATH 1347.78002, 2016)
The book is didactically well written and can serve as a useful literature for professionals as well as for graduate students in the considered fields. ... The appendix contains useful formulae for various quantities typically encountered in the wave transmission and reflection analyses. (Vladimir Cadez, zbMATH 1347.78002, 2016) The book is didactically well written and can serve as a useful literature for professionals as well as for graduate students in the considered fields. The appendix contains useful formulae for various quantities typically encountered in the wave transmission and reflection analyses. (Vladimir ade, zbMATH 1347.78002, 2016)
Author Information
John Lekner is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Victoria University of Wellington. He has a PhD from the University of Chicago, and has taught at Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Emmanuel College. He has worked mainly in statistical physics, quantum mechanics and electrodynamics. He has published more than 140 papers, of which about 40 are reflection-related.
