Abstract
A PROPER understanding of the principles of diffraction has never been so important to the student of physics as it is at the present time, and, with this in mind, Prof. C. F. Meyer has written a useful introductory work. That portion of the book which deals with the diffraction of light is indeed an excellent example of the treatment of problems in wave optics by the graphical method of the phase-amplitude diagram. Prof. Meyer uses this elegant geometrical method almost exclusively, and succeeds in giving a very lucid, and, within the limits of the method, which in his skilful hands are wide, a very detailed account of the various types of diffraction phenomena.
The Diffraction of Light, X-Rays and Material Particles:
an Introductory Treatment. By Prof. Charles F. Meyer. Pp. xiv + 473. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press; London: Cambridge University Press, 1934.) 22s. 6d. net.
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J., R. Physics. Nature 136, 597–598 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136597d0
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