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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Blue Sky
- Message-ID: <Jul.28.15.41.22.1992.4248@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 19:41:22 GMT
- References: <Jul.27.14.46.15.1992.6472@ruhets.rutgers.edu> <1992Jul27.224915.15755@das.harvard.edu> <1992Jul28.153403.10122@cerberus.ulaval.ca>
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- Francois Yergeau (yergeau@phy.ulaval.ca) writes:
- >BTW, the often quoted requirement that the body must be much smaller
- >than lambda is implicit in the assumption that the radiated amplitude
- >is proportional to V. If the body is too big, dipole radiation from
- >different parts of it will be out of phase and cancel out, and the
- >total amplitude will not grow as V anymore.
-
- Yes, or you could see the d << lambda (d being the dimension of the
- scatterer) as allowing you to work the problem in the quasi-static
- approximation (really of course this is the same thing as your
- assumption). Without it the problem of scattering is much harder.
-
- With regard to dimensional analysis, basically any dipole radiation
- has k^4 dependence, but dimensional analysis just doesn't seem to be
- very convincing here.
-
- Ben Weiner
-