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Comment on the extinct paradox
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Levine, D. M. |
| Copyright Year | 1983 |
| Description | The extinction paradox is a contradiction between geometrical optics results which predict that at high frequencies the scattering cross section of an object should equal its geometrical cross section and rigorous scattering theory which shows that at high frequencies the scattering cross section approaches twice the geometrical cross section of the object. Confusion about the reason for this paradox persists today even though the nature of the paradox was correctly identified many years ago by Brillouin. The resolution of the paradox is restated and illustrated with an example, and then the implications to the interpretation of scattering cross sections are identified. |
| File Size | 1181987 |
| Page Count | 19 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19840007890 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t8cg4jj2h |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1983-11-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Optics Extinction Scattering Cross Sections Plane Waves Geometrical Optics Polarization Waves Electric Fields Paradoxes Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
