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The isotropic scattering of a concentrated ray pencil from a point source

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

M. G. Smith
M. G. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Sir John Cass College, Jewry Street, London, E.C. 3
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Abstract

The two-sided Laplace transform is used to obtain a solution of a certain integral equation. The equation is that associated with the transport equation for isotropic scattering, when there is a point source of radiation giving a concentrated ray pencil, in a spherically symmetric homogeneous medium extending to infinity. The solution is then used to find the asymptotic form of the intensity in the forward and backward directions.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , January 1964 , pp. 105 - 114
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1964

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