EEAP 583: Scattering and Diffraction Theory
General Information
I originally took this course from Prof. Collin in 1976. Unfortunately I
can no longer find my notes for this course but one of my colleagues, Dr. Robert
Manning, managed to find his and I have posted his here. There was no textbook
and the entire course was taught from notes.
Course notes
- Part 1 Review of basic E&M,
uniqueness, field equivalence, electric and magnetic dipole radiation, near
and far zone radiation, reciprocity theorem, scattering by small particles,
scattering by a circular disk, equivalent sources, Babinet's principle, cross-sections,
Sturm-Liouville equation, Greens functions, boundary value problems and multi-dimensional
Green's functions, two-dimensional scattering and diffraction, Wiener-Hopf
techniques (PDF, 7.3 MB)
- Part 2 Evaluation of scattered
fields, radiation from waveguides, electromagnetic surface waves, Zenneck
surface waves, radiation from a dipole over a flat earth, wave solutions in
spherical coordinates, scattering of a scalar plane wave by a sphere, scalar
Green's function in spherical coordinates, vector wave solutions in spherical
coordinates, diffraction by a sphere (PDF, 7.9 MB)
- Appendices Delta functions, Fourier
transforms in the complex plane, contour integrals, Cauchy integral formula,
residues, asymptotic evaluation of integrals by the saddle point method, method
of stationary phase, infinite products, edge conditions, Wiener-Hopf integral
equation, Dyadic Green's function, eigenfunction expansions (PDF, 3.7 MB)
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Homework Assignments
- Homework - Single file containing
homework assignments and Dr. Manning's graded hw (PDF, 3.7 MB). When I
took the course our homework for the entire semester consisted of 13 problems
which took me over 3 weeks working full-time to solve.
Created: 2003-1-6. Last Modified: 2003-1-6.