Craig F. Bohren
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Rather out of date now, unfortunately; author Craig Bohren keeps suggesting experiments using a slide projector to provide a tight light beam. Nevertheless a clever amateur scientist could probably cobble something together to perform most of them. Clouds in a Glass of Beer provides explanations for many of the puzzling problems of everyday physics, such as “Why is the head on a glass of beer white when the beer itself is yellow?” and debunks many popular misconceptions about weather and the atmosphere. (For example, a cloudy night is not warmer than a clear one because “the clouds reflect infrared radiation from the earth”; it’s warmer because the clouds themselves are warm – i.e., they are emitting infrared rather than reflecting it). I confess a long-held misconception of my own was debunked; I had read somewhere that you can never see more than two rainbows because higher order reflections are directed toward the ground. In fact, there are reliable observations of third-order rainbows, but the third-order rainbow is behind the viewer when looking at first- and second-order rainbows and is usually lost in the sun’s glare. I’ll have to start checking.… (mere)
Originally published in 1983 and cited thousands of times in the research literature, Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles is a seminal book in the field of nanotechnology.
From the Back Cover:
Treating absorption and scattering in equal measure, this self-contained, interdisciplinary study examines and illustrates how small particles absorb and scatter light. The authors emphasize that any discussion of the optical behavior of small particles is inseparable from a full understanding of the optical behavior of the parent material--bulk matter. To divorce one concept from the other is to render any study on scattering theory seriously incomplete.
Special features and important topics covered in this book include:
* Classical theories of optical properties based on idealized models
* Measurements for three representative materials: magnesium oxide, aluminum, and water
* An extensive discussion of electromagnetic theory
* Numerous exact and approximate solutions to various scattering problems
* Examples and applications from physics, astrophysics, atmospheric physics, and biophysics
* Some 500 references emphasizing work done since Kerker's 1969 work on scattering theory
* Computer programs for calculating scattering by spheres, coated spheres, and infinite cylinders
Craig F. Bohren is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University and Donald R. Huffman is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Arizona.
Part of a LibraryThing collection of Classic Engineering Books: http://dld.bz/ClassicEngineering… (mere)
From the Back Cover:
Treating absorption and scattering in equal measure, this self-contained, interdisciplinary study examines and illustrates how small particles absorb and scatter light. The authors emphasize that any discussion of the optical behavior of small particles is inseparable from a full understanding of the optical behavior of the parent material--bulk matter. To divorce one concept from the other is to render any study on scattering theory seriously incomplete.
Special features and important topics covered in this book include:
* Classical theories of optical properties based on idealized models
* Measurements for three representative materials: magnesium oxide, aluminum, and water
* An extensive discussion of electromagnetic theory
* Numerous exact and approximate solutions to various scattering problems
* Examples and applications from physics, astrophysics, atmospheric physics, and biophysics
* Some 500 references emphasizing work done since Kerker's 1969 work on scattering theory
* Computer programs for calculating scattering by spheres, coated spheres, and infinite cylinders
Craig F. Bohren is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University and Donald R. Huffman is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Arizona.
Part of a LibraryThing collection of Classic Engineering Books: http://dld.bz/ClassicEngineering… (mere)
This is a terrible book with an attractive title. It i a collection of inexpensive experiments to teach atmospheric physics 1.01. The author was happy to publish his lectures notes: that can certainly be useful to another teacher, but it does not make a book. For instance, the book is made of a series of experiments: it is not organized by concepts and the concepts are not explained. It is not a book. You can find hundreds of such experiments for free on the internet, many of them on Youtube.
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