Exact Result for the Grazing Angle of Specular Reflection from a Sphere
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Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. An exact formula is given for the grazing angle of specular reflection from a sphere by displaying the zeros of a certain self-inversive quartic polynomial.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- SIAM Review
دوره 35 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1993