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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2009
      July 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511599903
      9780521383189
      9780521025874
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511599903
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.544kg, 256 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.382kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Optics, Optoelectronics and Photonics, Physics and Astronomy, Theoretical Physics and Mathematical Physics
      Series:
      Montroll Memorial Lecture Series in Mathematical Physics (1)
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    Subjects:
    Optics, Optoelectronics and Photonics, Physics and Astronomy, Theoretical Physics and Mathematical Physics
    Series:
    Montroll Memorial Lecture Series in Mathematical Physics (1)
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    Critical effects in semiclassical scattering, in which the standard approximations break down, are associated with forward peaking, rainbows, glories, orbiting and resonances. Besides giving rise to beautiful optical effects in the atmosphere, critical effects have important applications in many areas of physics. However, their interpretation and accurate treatment is difficult. This book, based on the Elliott Montroll Lectures, given at the University of Rochester, deals with the theory of these critical effects. After a preliminary chapter in which the problem of critical effects is posed, the next three chapters on coronae, rainbows and glories are written so as to be accessible to a broader audience. The main part of the book then describes the results obtained from the application of complex angular momentum techniques to scattering by homogeneous spheres. These techniques lead to practically usable asymptotic approximations, and to new physical insights into critical effects. A new conceptual picture of diffraction, regarded as a tunnelling effect, emerges. The final two chapters contain brief descriptions of applications to a broad range of fields, including linear and nonlinear optics, radiative transfer, astronomy, acoustics, seismology, atomic, nuclear and particle physics.

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    ‘Nicely written and well organized, the book may be useful to research workers in these areas … The material is also accessible to graduate students … I hope that the relatively low price will help to distribute this work into many physical libraries.’

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