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Originally published: Pergamon Press, 1966.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-183) and index.

PART I. THEORY -- I. PRELIMINARIES -- 1.1. Objective -- 1.2. Maxwell's Equations -- 1.3. Fourier Integral Analysis -- II. PLANE WAVE REPRESENTATION -- 2.1. Plane Waves -- 2.1.1. Homogeneous Plane Waves in Vacuum -- 2.1.2. Inhomogeneous Plane Waves in Vacuum -- 2.1.3. Plane Waves in an Isotropic Medium -- 2.1.4. Plane Waves in an Anisotropic Medium -- 2.1.5. An Example -- 2.2. Angular Spectrum of Plane Waves -- 2.2.1. Plane Surface Currents -- 2.2.2. Angular Spectrum in Vacuum: Two-dimensional Case -- 2.2.3. Simple Examples: Line-sources -- 2.2.4. Angular Spectrum in Vacuum: Three-dimensional Case -- 2.2.5. Simple Example: Dipole Source -- 2.2.6. Angular Spectrum in an Anisotropic Medium -- III. SUPPLEMENTARY THEORY -- 3.1. Radiated Power -- 3.1.1. The Two-dimensional Case -- 3.1.2. The Three-dimensional Case -- 3.2. The Radiation Field -- 3.2.1. Heuristic Approach: Stationary Phase -- 3.2.2. Rigorous Approach: Steepest Descents -- 3.3. Angular Spectrum with Simple Pole -- 3.3.1. The Complex Fresnel Integral -- 3.3.2. Reduction to Fresnel Integral -- 3.3.3. Steepest Descents with Saddle-point Near a Pole -- 3.4. Relation to other Representations -- 3.5. Gain and Supergain -- PART II. APPLICATION -- IV. DIFFRACTION BY A PLANE SCREEN -- 4.1. Black Screen -- 4.1.1. Formulation of the Problem -- 4.1.2. The Half-plane -- 4.1.3. The Slit -- 4.2. Perfectly Conducting Screen -- 4.2.1. Babinet's Principle and the Cross-section Theorem -- 4.2.2. The Half-plane -- 4.2.3. The Wide Slit -- 4.2.4. The Narrow Slit -- 4.2.5. Line-source -- V. PROPAGATION OVER A UNIFORM PLANE SURFACE -- 5.1. Radio Propagation over a Homogeneous Earth -- 5.1.1. Reflection Coefficients for Plane Wave Incidence -- 5.1.2. Solution for a Localized Source: J5-polarization -- 5.1.3. Solution for a Localized Source: jET-polarization -- 5.1.4. Special Cases -- 5.2. Surface Waves -- 5.2.1. Reactive Surfaces -- 5.2.2. Generation of a Surface Wave -- 5.2.3. Launching Efficiency -- VI. PROPAGATION OVER A TWO-PART PLANE SURFACE.

6.1. Perfectly Conducting Half-plane on Surface of Semi-infinite Homogeneous Medium -- 6.1.1. Genesis and Nature of the Problem -- 6.1.2. Solution for Incident Plane Wave: If-polarization -- 6.1.3. Solution for Line-source: if-polarization -- 6.1.4. Reduction of the Solution -- 6.1.5. Special Cases -- 6.2. Two-part Impedance Surface -- 6.2.1. Solution for Incident Plane Wave: -polarization -- 6.2.2. The Split of sin ft + / sinhy -- 6.2.3. Surface Wave Reflection and Transmission -- VII. THE FIELD OF A MOVING POINT CHARGE -- 7.1. Motion in a Plane -- 7.1.1. General Formulation -- 7.1.2. Periodic Motion: Uniform Circular Motion -- 7.2. Uniform Rectilinear Motion -- 7.2.1. Motion in a Vacuum -- 7.2.2. Motion in a Dielectric: Cerenkov Radiation -- VIIL SOURCES IN ANISOTROPIC MEDIA -- 8.1. Uniaxial Medium -- 8.1.1. The Dielectric Tensor -- 8.1.2. Surface Currents in Plane Normal to Axis -- 8.1.3. Dipole Normal to Axis -- 8.1.4. Surface Currents in Plane Parallel to Axis -- 8.1.5. Dipole Parallel to Axis -- 8.1.6. Point Charge in Uniform Motion Parallel to Axis -- 8.1.7. TE and TM Resolution -- 8.2. Magneto-ionic Medium -- 8.2.1. Surface Currents in Plane Normal to Magnetostatic Field -- 8.2.2. Surface Currents in Plane Parallel to Magnetostatic Held -- 8.2.3. Point Charge in Uniform Motion Parallel to Magnetostatic Field -- ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

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