RADIATIVE TRANSFER - VI. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Radiative Transfer
DOI: 10.1615/ICHMT.2010.RAD-6
ISBN Print: 978-1-56700-269-0
ISSN Online: 2642-5629
ISSN Flash Drive: 2642-5661
A NEW EXPLANATION OF THE EXTINCTION PARADOX. PART II.
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DOI: 10.1615/ICHMT.2010.RAD-6.210
RESUMO
The work in Part I is unified here to show that the extinction paradox is a consequence of the cancellation of the incident wave within the particle. Following this, the canonical explanations are examined to reveal serious problems with them. For example, the paradox is shown to occur for small highly refractive dielectric particles, and thus is not just a large particle-size or small wavelength effect as is often stated. The traditional explanations cannot account for this behavior while the new one actually predicts it.