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The reflexion of light at a surface covered by a monomolecular film

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

C. Strachan
Affiliation:
Corpus Christi College

Extract

The effect of a monomolecular film on the reflexion of light from a plane surface is considered. The film is treated as a two-dimensional assembly of scattering centres, and the possibility of molecular orientation is allowed for. Experimental results, when available, should indicate whether the scattering properties of groups of molecules in the “two-dimensional” state differ from those of molecules in bulk.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1933

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* This expression can be shown to be a continuous function of x 30 in a range including the value zero, by showing that the integral is uniformly convergent.