Theory of Reflection

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.

• From the Contents: Preface.- Introducing Reflection.- Exact Results.- Reflection of Long Waves.- Variational Theory.- Equations for the Reflection Amplitudes.- Reflection of Short Waves.- Anisotropy.- Absorption.- Inverse Problems.- Pulses, Finite Beams.

“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 Čadež, zbMATH 1347.78002, 2016)