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These resistive components cause significant attenuation of potential surface waves along the structure. In fact, they will in general be so weak that the surface wave radiation from active arrays can be ignored in contrast to the FSS case discussed in Chapter 4. However, they may be strong enough to produce jitter of the terminal impedance. 

We saw earlier that surface waves radiate and can lead to a significant increase in the backscattered field. It is therefore of great interest to investigate ways to control them. We recall from Fig. 4.5d as well as Fig. 4.12 that the surface waves basically were driven by two semi-infinite arrays located on each side of the finite array. Thus, if we could somehow introduce a barrier between the two semiinfinite arrays and the finite array, we would expect a weaker excitation of the surface waves in the finite array. One such possible practical arrangement could consist of a finite number of columns between the semi-infinite and finite arrays where the column currents had been reduced by insertion of load resistors in each element. Such an arrangement could also serve as absorbers of the two surface waves as well as the Floquet waves incident upon the edges of the finite array. 

The epicentre of an earthquake is located on the surface of the Earth immediately above the focus (i.e. the location of the origin of the earthquake), and shock waves radiate from the focus in all directions. Earthquake foci are confined to within a limited zone of the upper Earth, the lower boundary occurring at around 700 km depth from the surface. No earthquakes are known to have originated below this level. Moreover, earthquakes rarely originate at the Earth s surface. In fact, most earthquakes originate within the upper 25 km of the Earth. Because of its significance, the depth of foci has been used as the basis of a threefold classification of earthquakes those occurring within the upper 70 km are referred to as shallow, those located between 70 and 300 km as intermediate, and those between 300 and 700 km as deep. Seventy percent of all earthquakes are of shallow type. 

Following this sudden movement, many waves radiate from the epicenter and propagate through the earth. It has been recognized that both P and S waves, known as body waves, emanate from the source and travel with a velocity that exceeds 4 km/s in earth. When they arrive at the free field, they are followed by both Love and Rayleigh waves. These latter, known as surface waves, travel only at the surface. The movements associated with body as well as surface waves are well known and are mainly decomposed into compressional and shear movement. At the free field, the seismic motion could be decomposed into two parts (a) motion caused by body waves and (b) motion caused by surface waves. 

ATR is one of the most useful and versatile sampling modes in IR spectroscopy. When radiation is internally reflected at the interface between a high-refractive index ATR crystal (usually Ge, ZnSe, Si, or diamond) and the sample, an evanescent wave penetrates inside the sample to a depth that depends on the wavelength, the refractive indices, and the incidence angle. Because the penetration depth is typically less than 2 pm, ATR provides surface specific information, which can be seen as an advantage or not if surface orientation differs from that of the bulk. It also allows one to study thick samples without preparation and can be used to characterize highly absorbing bands that are saturated in transmission measurements. 

A simplified picture of the transducer, lens surface, and reflecting object is shown in Fig. 7.4. The waves radiated by the transducer are refracted by the lens so as to form a spherical wavefront centred on the focal point of the lens. Each point on this wavefront can be described by its angular coordinates from the focus let these be 6 for the zenithal angle (i.e. the angle to the lens axis, again taken to be normal to the specimen surface) and for the azimuthal angle. Thus the spherical wave emerging from the lens can be described by... 

Insulation and Heat-Flow Principles. Heat flows from places of higher temperature to those of lower temperature hy one or more of three modes 11) Conductance through solids (2 convection by induced motion of fluids carrying heat and (3) radiation by heal waves emitted from a surface. The rate of heal flow in solids depends upon temperature difference 7j - 7j and the resistances encountered. The heal flow, under steady stale, is expressed by ... 

Radiation from salt water surface to the wetted cover is the largest loss, but there seems to be no assurance that it can be reduced. There is some evidence that microscopic roughening of the underside of the cover may render that surface reflective for the bulk of the long wave radiation (peaking at about 8 to 10 microns) from the water surface, without appreciably reducing its transparency for short wave solar radiation. However, even a thin film of condensate on the cover is an effective absorber for thermal radiation, so the benefit of a thermally reflective cover may not be realized in ordinary basin-type stills. 

If the radiation from the basin water to the still cover could be eliminated or substantially reduced, a large gain in productivity would be effected. To accomplish this, it would be necessary to have a cover, the underside of which would reflect long-wave radiation emitted by the water surface. The ideal cover would transmit all incoming radiation, both long- and short-wave length, and reflect all radiation emanating from the basin water. Because such a cover is theoretically not attainable, the next best... 

Problem Most of the Earth s thermal energy is received from the short wave radiation of the sun. Although it receives radiation from other bodies in space, it is negligible compared to with the solar energy. Incoming solar energy is at approximately at the same intensity as when it left the surface of the sun, before it enters the earth s atmosphere. However once it enters the atmosphere approximately 6% is reflected by particles in the atmosphere, 16% is absorbed by the atmosphere, 20-30% is reflected by the clouds, and 3% is absorbed by the clouds. On any given day all of these factors can limit the amount of net solar radiation received by a solar panel. 

In ATR-FTIR excitation occurs only in the immediate vicinity of the surface ol the reflection element, in an evanescent wave resulting from total internal reflection. The intensity of the evanescent field decays exponentially in the direction normal to the interface with a penetration depth given by (1.7.10.121, which for IR radiation is of the order of a few hundreds of nm. Absorption leads to an attenuation of the totally reflected beam. The ATR spectrum is similar to the IR transmission spectrum. Only for films with a thickness comparable to, or larger than, the penetration depth of the evanescent field, do the band intensities depend on the film thickness. Information on the orientation of defined structural units can be obtained by measuring the dichroic ratio defined as R = A IA, where A and A are the band absorbances for radiation polarized parallel and perpendicular with respect to the plane of incidence, respectively. From this ratio the second-order parameter of the orientation distribution (eq. [3.7.13]) can be derived ). ATR-FTIR has been extensively used to study the conformation and ordering in LB monolayers, bilayers and multilayers of fatty acids and lipids. Examples of various studies can be found... 

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