APSC 785 - Acoustic and EM Scattering

Fall (3) Prerequisite(s): APSC 723.

Acoustic, electromagnetic and elastic wave scattering for materials characterization and remote sensing. Subjects to be covered are: field equations, boundary conditions, Green’s functions; integral representations and integral equations, scattering amplitude and scattering matrices; plane, spherical and cylindrical scalar and vector wave functions; scattering of waves by spheres and cylinders; inverse scattering techniques.